(Inter)National Day of Reparations, October 10, 2007

African American Museum & Library, Oakland, CA, originally uploaded by Eriqua.

America's infrastructure was built on a lot of free labor: slaves of the African diaspora, Native American diaspora, Latino, Arab, Middle Eastern, Asian, and South Asian diaspora have let the United States sit on the fruits of their labor interest-free.

Today is the first of many days to call attention to this irregularity of accounting. Reparations are a decent and immediate solution to this imbalance in balance sheets. Thanks to artist damali ayo for inspiring this international movement.

I did my part by standing in my shades and waving my sign.

So far I've made $0.00, but I gave $1.00.

National Reparations Day - October 10, 2007

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Ladies and gentlemen from traditionally oppressed populations,

our day has come! Damali Ayo has forwaded an invitation to all of us.

Read, forward, and see you on October 10!

GET YOURS!

(I've been waiting for mine for about 500 years...)

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