The Coalition of Concerned Freedmen Decry the Far Left’s Appropriation of Slavery Reparations by Pamela Denise Long and Tony Blount

Descendants of Slaves Question the Competence of Reparations Leadership

In recognition of the 157th anniversary of establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau (03/03/2022), multigenerational Black Americans have galvanized to ensure integrity in the national, state, and local actions around reparations for chattel slavery in the United States. The Coalition of Concerned Freedmen share serious concerns about the leadership conflicts of interest, competency standards, framing and implementation plans for slavery reparations. The Coalition has become aware of mismanagement of the grassroots momentum for slavery reparations given the inadequacy of H.R. 40[i], the ways Pan-Africanist organizations have appropriated the framing of procedural activity and reparations recipients (the community of eligibility), the under-informed public dialogue of non-descendants of slaves, and the extent to which legislators with more recent immigrant background block substantive input from Freedmen.

Transparency is necessary.

Freedmen is a political status designated to chattel slaves and their descendants in 1863’s Emancipation Proclamation and reaffirmed via H.R. 613, an Act of the United States…