What is the African Manifesto

African Manifesto

The word African specifically relates to the indigenous people of the African continent and their descents in the Diaspora ( Caribbean , Americas , Arabia , etc). The race-nationality model such as that currently employed by African-American, African-Brazilian and African-Caribbean communities more accurately describes the identity whilst fully articulating the history and geopolitical reality.

The miscellaneous usage of the label 'Black' within this site reflects its contemporary use as a means to denote a specific

sociocultural and political context. It is recognized as a colloquial term that was fashioned as a reactionary concept to derogatory racial epithets in the 1960's. It is offensive when used as a racial classification code word to denote African people. Other such denigrating terminology when made in reference to African culture, heritage or identity are 'Tribe', 'Sub-Saharan Africa', or 'black Africa '.

Saturday, July 4, 2015

A Nation Built on the Back of Slavery and Racism

Why Reparations? It began with 246 years of legal slavery in which we extracted wealth from the lives of African Americans. At the time of the Civil War, close to 4 million African americans were enslaved, 13 percent of american total population. After the war, institutional injustices focused on sealing their land and jobs and ensuring the African Americans did not build wealth as fast as the rest of Americans.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/jeff-neumann-tracy-loeffelholz-dunn/40-acres-and-mule-would-be-at-least-64-trillion-t