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| Entrepreneurs and capitalism have built America | | | | African American descendent of slaves to replace |
| with the free labor of African Americans. With an | | | | the with we created and never received. It must |
| earth shattering idea and dedication, a person can | | | | stop funding the rebuilding of Iraq and fund the |
| become a millionaire. It does not matter where | | | | rebuilding of our race war torn cities. |
| they live and where they were born. John Vincent | | | | While many African Americans have been |
| states “Ideas are the factors that lift | | | | educated at the finest universities and have risen |
| civilizations. They create …REVOLUTIONS. | | | | to executive levels of corporations, we are still |
| There is more ... dynamite ... in ideas.” If | | | | inflicted with the sting of racism daily. We are |
| we want to change African American | | | | arrested more than any other population. Our |
| communities, we must demand reparations | | | | children are harassed by the police. Our schools |
| Let’s face it! African Americans have | | | | receive the lowest level of funding thereby |
| entrepreneurs albeit most of them underworld | | | | creating high dropout rates and high |
| entrepreneurs. If African Americans received | | | | unemployment. We receive inferior high rate loans |
| reparations, it would change the existence of our | | | | for the same credit records as others causing the |
| cities. They could be vibrant in a relative short | | | | high foreclosure rates. Our cities look like war torn |
| time. | | | | Iraqi due to the institutional racism America has |
| Ida Byrd-Hill, author of Breakin' Out of Your | | | | inflicted on African Americans. |
| Financial Funk!, believes entrepreneurial activities | | | | America continually enslaves African Americans, |
| fundied by reparations will rebuild African American | | | | albeit now an economic slavery. We are in a |
| cities. Congress has the moral and economic | | | | fierce financial funk as many of our citizens have |
| obligation to repay African Americans for | | | | not had a fair opportunity to break out of the |
| supporting the usage of 500 years of free and | | | | poverty cycle America created when slavery |
| nearly free labor to build corporate and family | | | | ended and we did not receive our 40 acres and a |
| dynasty wealth. African Americans built this | | | | mule. Those 40 acres and a mule are now worth |
| country yet we are caught in a fierce financial | | | | 10 million dollars. We must demand reparations |
| funk that forty years of affirmative action | | | | and rebuilding of our communities along with the |
| seasoned with racism can not cure. | | | | Congress apology for slavery. We must demand |
| America provided sovereignty to the Native | | | | America provide us reparations to fund our |
| Americans for the atrocities they inflicted in | | | | businesses so we can create family dynasty |
| stealing their land. They provided reparation to the | | | | wealth. |
| Japanese for their capture in internment camps | | | | But more importantly, America needs African |
| which was short lived. America is funding the | | | | Americans to spend money to lift this economy |
| rebuilding of Iraq after 5 years of war. Certainly, | | | | out of recession. When African Americans tight |
| America has a debt it must pay to African | | | | their economic belt the country suffers. America |
| Americans for enslaving our people. America must | | | | must save itself. |