Support African Reparations The reparations issue is growing momentum. All over the country there are private individuals and organizations working together to enact legislation, like Congressional Bill H.R. 40 (Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act) "to acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes." An organization in the forefront of the African Reparations Movement is N'Cobra (National Coalition for Blacks for Reparations in America). It brings together private individuals, not-for-profit human rights organizations, legal professionals and concerned citizens in a coalition that ensures that both the United States government and corporate entities that profited from the African slave trade make restitution to the descendants of African slaves. To that end, N'COBRA keeps a running list of individuals involved in lobbying, litigating and pushing for legislation to legally mandate governmental and corporate entities to make monetary restitution and spiritual reparations by exposing the horrible truth of the African slave trade and publicly debunking the Jewish religiously-fomented myth of white supremacy. The website states: "It will demonstrate the link between chattel slavery and the current social, health, economic and political status of African descendants and therefore destroy the myth of white supremacy. In setting the record straight and devising and implementing reparations packages to aid in healing African descendants, the nation as a whole will become stronger. Truth and atonement are essential ingredients for a just and peaceful society." N'COBRA's mission for African reparations is not limited to the United States. Its International Affairs Department is part of a worldwide effort to legally enforce restitution to African descendants all around the world. N'COBRA attended a meeting in Durban in South Africa for the World Conference Against Racism. It took a leadership role at the International Front of Africans for Reparations (IFAR) formed at the African and African Descendants Conference in Bridgetown, Barbados in 2002. N'COBRA has offices in key states, including Brooklyn, New York. N'COBRA can always use financial contributions for its legal research, defense and education. Supporting N'COBRA with our time and with our dollars will help N'COBRA continue this life-saving work. Here are some other organizations where you can contribute your money, your time as well as learn about what they are doing and show them your appreciation: ·        http://www.reparationsthecure.org/articles/amy1.shtml ·        http://www.millionsforreparations.com/ ·        http://reparationunitedfront.org/index.htm ·        http://www.arm.arc.co.uk/ ·        http://www.antislavery.org/breakingthesilence/main/08/Reparations.shtml ·        http://blackeducator.blogspot.com ·        http://www.reparationscentral.com/links1.html The website http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Reparations_For_Africans is another place where individuals interested in the African Reparations movement can monitor the progress being made.  Legal advances, information regarding the boycotting of companies who participated in the African slave trade, historical pilgrimages to areas where African Americans were tortured and murdered and other relevant information is discussed at this site. There are quite a few websites that outline their undying interest in ensuring that Africans in the Diaspora receive reparations in the same manner that Jews, Native Americans, the Japanese, Koreans, and other oppressed groups received reparations. Contributing your money and your time are important. But the most important thing that you can contribute is your voice. Sadly, there appears to be a growing apathy in the African diasporal community regarding African reparations. In the New York City area, because most businesses -- television stations, radio stations, multinational financial conglomerates, not-for-profit social service corporations, post high school educational institutions and others are headed by people who see to the cultural needs of Jewish people, but not to the cultural needs of Africans in the Diaspora, there is very little said about the African diasporal plight. Even with large corporations, it is more than likely that Africans in the Diaspora (excepts those in unions) are paid at a much lower rate than their white counterparts. As in the past, Africans in the Diaspora have been oppressed to the point were most are grateful just to have a job. Few are willing to risk their jobs to support African diasporal causes -- even if the job is low paying. Therefore, the one thing that Africans can do is talk. Telling African children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, the neighbor's children -- any child who will listen to information about the horrors of the African Holocaust and how the European Jewish community taught that black skin was the sign of God's curse is the main way that we can support African reparations. Supporting African reparations is the responsibility of every one whose ancestor was a slave in the Americas.