Why We Need Reparations and NOW!

Why We Need Reparations and now!!

I was involved with the REPARATIONS movement in Philadelphia for about three years. Most of my work centered on the work I did with a group called N’COBRA—the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. We met in North Philadelphia. The work was hard, but it was some of the most enjoyable political work I have ever done. I got to meet with other Black community leaders, political representatives in Washington, D.C. and their staffs as we traveled to D.C. to advocate for HR40—the bill that would have provided for money to ``study’’ the issue of REPARATIONS for Black Americans... The thought was that once we had the opportunity to study the issue properly, the American people and plenty of American legislators would see that some form of compensation for the over 200 years of chattel slavery that Blacks suffered under was in order and only fair. After all, some historians think that over 100 million Blacks were killed during the Middle Passage; over 2000 people--men, women and even children—were tortured, raped, shot castrated and or hung; discrimination still exists today; there was the reprehensible treatment of runaway slaves and the equally reprehensible history of the Jim Crow South; and the fact that Black men are still to this day steered towards prison and jail instead of school, college and other places for higher education. Not to mention an unemployment rate that is through the roof in some big cities. Someone needs to pay for the incredible double standards and the continuing discrimination that Black people suffer under in the housing and job market and in every other life passageway. If President Obama thinks he is going to get re-elected without handling this I know many REPARATIONS activists who have another thought in mind. I actually talked to a few Congressional Representatives and help them see the importance of HR40. A few signed on to the bill, others hedged and waited for more grass-roots support to bubble up from the community down under. Congressman John Conyers of Detroit, Michigan is the sponsor of HR40.





11-21-09

Questions about REPARATIONS for Sister Charlotte Harris of N’COBRA!! (The National Coalition of Blacks for REPARATIONS in America) Interviewed on 11-22-09


How long have you been actively working on the Reparations issue? What is your position with N’COBRA and what do you do professionally?

Maybe eight years.
I am Membership Chair of the Philadelphia Chapter of N’COBRA and An At large Board Member nationally of N’COBRA...

I am a Psycho Therapist by trade.

What exactly are reparations?

Reparations is a form of repair for what the U.S. government, businesses and the U.S. citizenry has done to us, the damage caused from their behavior from the 1400’s to now.

Why do you feel that Black people don’t know what they are and don’t feel they are ever going to get them?

``They don’t know for the same reasons everyone doesn’t know. They don’t know (because) they cannot make the connections. They haven’t had it taught to them the connections to the centuries long rape of Africa the theft of its resources, the theft of its land and the theft of its people which created the African Diaspora and present day vestiges of poverty, lack of health care , (and lack of) land ownership, justice and education. They don’t understand that the wealth this country (North America) has is connected to the 500 years of unfair, unjust malevolent behavior of European business, government and citizenry against Africans.’’

What does this disbelief or mental disconnect among people of African Descent do to the REPARATIONS movement itself?

``Besides frustrating me and making me sad it also reinforces the need for me to do more work towards educating my people towards the goal of REPARATIONS.’’

How can you and N’CORBA generate more mass support within the Black community?

``One way is to do a series of lectures and to speak at various organizations. Speak at various African organizations and to partner with various organizations & to join with various international Black organizations to work towards REPARATIONS. ‘’

What do you mean by partner?

``To join forces with World Wide African organizations that are striving towards Reparations.’’



Is support for reparations outside of the Black community important? Why or Why not?

``It is important because it will make less people to fight (against) to get reparations.’’

(1)
Will this support among Blacks alienate the White community and make them more hostile during these economically troubled times? (2) Will they (Whites) be jealous and take it out on Obama and other Black people if they see even an inkling of Black people getting any financial rewards for past and or even present injustices?

(1) ``No, the ones (Whites) who are already alienated and hostile are already alienated and hostile. We already have support among Whites they are not alienated and hostile. Most Caucasians already are against it because they deem us inhuman and not worthy of Reparations. They would have to admit that they had committed crimes against us and most Caucasians are not willing to admit that. They are still today benefiting from those crimes by the way society is structured today. They are less likely to be stopped by police, they are less likely to be killed by police, (they are) less likely to go to jail. They benefit by putting Black people in jail. The prison industrial complex benefits by putting Black people in jail. America has an army and employs mercenaries to kill Brown people all over the world. Businesses are designed to exploit people of color in America and around the world. ’’

(2) ``In order for Africans to be paid what is due us for our condition to be repaired, White people will be uncomfortable because the hierarchy that says GOD is a White man (and that) the President (is) a White men, will be changed. Black people are at the bottom. The pyramid hierarchy (of power) will change. In order to have justice the pyramid must change and end.’’






Where do we go from here? What are the plans of N’COBRA and how can the masses within the Black community help?


``The plans are to educate everyone and continue fighting for REPARATIONS. The masses of Black people can help by joining N’COBRA which is a mere $35 a year. (Or $20 a year if you don’t have a local chapter. )’’

Circumstances concerning medication Tracy Charles Gibson

December 18^th, 2018 Tuesday

From: Mr. Tracy Charles Gibson

670 North 41^st

Apartment B

Philadelphia, PA 19104 – 5202

1. {215  } 823  9985

A Patient of Ms Michelle’s a { 215 } 233  --  5792

At The Consortium Mental Health Center at 56^th & Chestnut

To: Director Mr. Emmett Highbaugh

     Hope & Pray you are in Good Spirits & health. I am in a situation where one of my medicines – stelizine or Trifluthorozine  -- is being discontinued. I am running out of this medication. My Pharmacy  -- Overbrook Plaza Pharmacy  -- cannot re-fill this prescription & neither can CVS. I apparently need to be reevaluated by Ms Gwen Morrison to get a new prescription. My prescriptions were being written by Doctor Leo Zachariah of Mercy Hospital while I was seeing Mr. Edward Melvin. Mr. Melvin never told me I should be getting medicines from Ms. Gwen Morrison. Ms Gwen Morrison cannot see me until February 26^th long after I will need a few new prescriptions.  I am not getting any help what so ever from your staff People to resolve this circumstance. My State Representative has been called, but the { His Staff } tole me to go through the social worker who is NOT in The Consortium Office today. The Social Worker & You are said – I am tole – to be in tomorrow  --  December 19^th, 2018 Wednesday. I do important work for Peace & Justice in Philadelphia that requires constructive & steady thinking. I do not want to be hospitalized for a simple prescription not being filled. My hope is that the consortium can remain & advance as a Valued mental-health provider in Philadelphia. Complaining about my service provider is not going to look good when funding cycles turn around & come due. I can help you find private sources for funding, but not if I’m in the hospital needing a simple prescription & re-evaluation.

 

Gratefully True,

 

Tracy Charles Gibson  

Dear Friends: Please call the Director of the Consortium at { 215 } 596  --  8100

& ask that they find a Way to get my medicine prescribed properly. This is a matter of political harassment through a program similar to Co-In-Tell-Pro of the 1970's. More to come soon.

Books of Brother Tracy Gibson Available.

⇗Dear Friends, Associates, Fellow Black Church-goers, cousins, lovers, teachers, poets, doctors, lawyers, Black women, Black men  and Black engineers, :

 

I want you to know that my book of poetry is available for Christmas, Kwanzaa. The Book is entitled ``Let the Children Gather’’, By Tracy Gibson.  It is available on www.lulu.com The book was specifically written to help Black male youth deal with their personal political anger in a constructive and positive Way.   Our new manuscript is available at http://thepoliticsofreal.blogspot.com

Look for ``The Re-Awakening of the African Diaspora ‘’ A book written as a blue print for living life as a positive-thinking Black person and not just surviving, but flourishing.  Turning your slave mentality into one that thinks positively, is no easy turn of events. This manuscript is sent to you for free through my blog. I would like you to send in a free-will donation

I Am the author, Mr. Tracy Charles Gibson.

 

Please send postal money orders to : MR. Tracy Charles Gibson

                                                                                670 North 41^st Street

                                                                                APT B

                                                                                Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 – 5202

 

 We will also have tee-shirts available soon.

 Please call us to find out more about them.  1 (215) 823 – 9985.

Mo Than Just Say No!

The Legacy of Nancy Reagan and ``Just Say No’’

 

By Mr. Tracy Charles Gibson

..**Many Black people made fun of Nancy Regan’s anti-illegal-drug slogan `` Just Say No.’’  They really should not have. I understanding them, our Black community, scoffing at the thought of how easy the Nancy Reagan slogan made things sound and the fact that it never took into account how difficult it is to overcome hopelessness when your job is taken over by a White person, and your home is taken over by a White person, and your fellow Black person just snatched all the life out of you by killing a loved one.  This anti-illegal-drug slogan ``Just Say NO!’’ stands as something not taken very seriously facing all those difficulties including homelessness, poverty, an open availability of illegal drugs in the hood, poor educational opportunities, and a penal system that where houses Black men and Black women.   It still needs, however, to be the positive battle cry for many Black North American communities.  If we say no to illegal drugs more often, we open less healing places that are assigned to treating Black people with drug addictions.  That treatment process usually takes several hundred thousand dollars and several years of an inability to work or do anything much that is very productive for oneself or one’s community. Certainly there are exceptions.  Gil Scott Heron was drug addicted as he made history in producing some of the greatest pre-rap, poetry- inclined albums of all time.  Several other Black performers made it through drug addiction by producing great music such as Miles Davis and Charlie Parker.  But if they had listened to the former First Lady – who many Black People didn’t like at all – they would have been able to stay alive longer and maybe even produce much better music and hold even greater live performances that might even have been as memorable as they were important to our Black community.  The moral of this story is, don’t turn things out of hand right away just because they come from a messanger we don’t like….  Just Sayin.

proposed debate on National Black issues.

A proposal sent to Black community leaders about a possible debate on political issues including race, ethnicity and gaining greater economic advantage for Black people and Black youth. __From Tracy Charles Gibson.

     ***************I would LOVe it if Ramona Africa and / or Pam Africa could arrange for, with my help if you need it, arrange to have a two-hour-long nationally televised debate with two Known Republicans about race, the treatment of Black youth by police, the Mumia case, MOVE and their abuse, economic development for small Black businesses, How to reach the proper education of Black children and Black youth, and Who really owns this great land that ( I feel ) was stolen from the Native Americans and should be called Turtle Island and given back to them over a ten-year period.  (I heard from a little Gibson Bird that ABC is very interested.  This would get great ratings in the current national climate in our land, which is heated politically and, strangely, opening a great deal of opportunity for Black People.  Let me know what you say. Talk to some of MOVE's financial supporters.  If you want to do this, I can help with PR and getting funding and sponsors.  There would also have to be ground rules set up for the debate. ( You can use video images of President Ronald Reagan signing the King Holiday bill, Stevie Wonder singing Happy Birthday,  Delbert Africa's beating, Mumia talking, the Black Panthers being stripped by Philadelphia police under Frank Rizzo, The massacre of 300 Black People at Black Wall Street in the 1920's & the destruction of Black Wall Street,, Black Lives Matter's demonstrations and their points of view, the views of Black preachers like Jeremiah Wright and Paul Washington, the murder of Black Panther Fred Hampton, James Baldwin and Arnold Jackson giving speeches or on Television, Black Gays and Black Lesbians at Black Prides ``wasting money'' at White-owned hotels in Atlanta, a Black citizen asking why we can't raise money for student salaries at Black colleges and Black universities, a preview of my new book ``The Re-Awakening of the African Diaspora'', Angela Davie, Ramona and Pam giving speeches, Rizzo with a black nightstick in his cummerbund,  the beatings of Black school children by Philadelphia police, and the Frank Rizzo Statue demonstrations for starters. Meanwhile, I want you both, if you can find time, to watch ``The Great Debaters,'' starring and directed by Denzel Washington and ``Black Is, Black Ain't,'' and ``Tongues Untied,’’  by director Marlon Riggs .*****

*****(One of the things I do as a Black political activist& promoter of Black businesses is advocate for clean, pristine, clear water for Black Africa.  Lack of clean water is at the root of many diseases on the continent of Africa, according to many reliable health sources.)

Gratefully True,

 

Tracy Gibson,

 

Founder, President and Chief

Of

Brother Tracy Gibson & Associates, Incorporated

 

PR; Education; Philanthropy;  Black Advocacy; & developing better life processes and more choices to help Black youth.

Editor’s Note: Above is an edited version of what I sent to many Black community leaders recently.

Contact me at,

MR. Tracy Charles Gibson

670 North 41st Street

APT B

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 - 5202

e-Mail,  BrotherTracy11@GMail.Com

Phone, 1 ( 215 ) 823 -- 9985

Thank you for your interests and concerns.

Revive Friends of Somafco! AVenge Steve Beko! and others who died for a fre South Africa!. Amanda!

Echoes  for Africa -- out of the shadows. !

 I don't want to see the end of Friends of Somafco. In the names of all those who suffered and died under apartheid and who still live on for a better, free, more open, disciplined, justice-oriented, caring, sharing,  and economically balanced South Africa, I beg you to help me find a way to revive and keep alive Friends of Somafco. We must get more young people involved in Somafcos restoration. What about the youth from Enon Baptist Church? What about getting some other Black youth groups involved like Black Lives Matter?

Please respond:

Tracy Charles Gibson

670 North 41st Street

APT B

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 - 5202.

1 (215) 823 - 9985.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoNGCSgWQEQ

Steve Beko's death must be avenged.

Black Cotten from Africa

There are some delightfully colorful small animal coffee table figures, necklaces, rings and other such hand-made items available at Black Cotton on the South East side of City Hall [ Center City Philadelphia ] in a booth there. Many of the items are made in Kenya, Africa. Please call  Flora Maranga at 1 - 484 - 508 - 8279. for more information or log onto www.blackcotten.biz. You will not be disappointed.