U. Illinois Hosted State-Funded Committee Meeting Where Professors Advocated for Reparations
“They shared with White workers labor exploitation. That is the hallmark of capitalism: theft.”
Illinois has a massive unfunded liability problem. Where is this money going to come from?
FOX News reports:
University of Illinois hosted state-funded committee meeting where professors advocated for reparations
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in October hosted a meeting of a state-supported reparations committee, where two of its professors and one of its researchers advocated in favor of reparations.
“The first problem, an analysis of Black workers’ lived experiences in Illinois, reveals two dominant relationships,” said Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, a professor in the school’s history department. “They shared with White workers labor exploitation. That is the hallmark of capitalism: theft.”
Cha-Jua, fellow professor LaKisha David and doctoral student Naomi Simmons-Thorne spoke at the October meeting held by the African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission.
The commission was established by the Illinois General Assembly, in part to study reparations and “discuss the implementation of measures to ensure equity, equality, and parity for African American descendants of slavery.” The commission reports its findings to the general assembly.
Cha-Jua said that “the most frequent lived experience of the African American people has been as enslaved persons, sharecroppers, farm laborers, domestic servants, washerwomen, wageworkers, non-industrial or industrial workers, menial laborers in the public sector and as contemporary sub-proletarians laboring in part-time, temporary, low-wage un-unionized and benefit-less jobs.”
He also said that after emancipation, Black male workers were subject to what he termed “super-exploitation” and “racial terrorism,” and took the audience through a litany of 19th century atrocities perpetrated against Black people in America.
“It’s not about individual reparations,” he concluded. “We constitute a nationality that simply does not have a state. But we are a nation of people, so what we want to talk about is collective reparations. Reparations to communities and reparations to the African American people, as well as individual payments.”
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blmplo = shite
“We constitute a nationality that simply does not have a state.”
You have a state — purchased, designed, and set aside solely for you. You declined to occupy it, preferring to remain here. We owe you nothing further.
100 upticks.
You got it right. They were given a state and they refused it. No more is required.
“Cha-Jua said that “the most frequent lived experience of the African American people has been as enslaved persons, sharecroppers, farm laborers, domestic servants, washerwomen, wageworkers, non-industrial or industrial workers, menial laborers in the public sector and as contemporary sub-proletarians laboring in part-time, temporary, low-wage un-unionized and benefit-less jobs.”
If she were a real history prof, and not a radical leftist, he would know that socialism only “succeeds” by making everyone, except the elite to which I am sure she includers herself, live in abysmal conditions and economically destroy countries.
Every race has been a slave at some point, so it all cancels out.
For the record, he is an “African American studies” prof, so he makes it up as he goes along.
Do you see a trend in the following?
“Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua is an Associate Professor in the Departments of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he has been a faculty member since 2001.
He earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993 and holds a B.A. in Political Science from Tougaloo College.
His research focuses on Black racial formations, African American historiography, community-building, radical Black intellectual traditions, and social movement theory, with specific interests in African American community formation, lynching and racial terrorism, historical materialism, and culturally relevant pedagogy.
Cha-Jua is the author of America’s First Black Town, Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830–1915 and Sankofa: Racial Formation and Transformation, Toward a Theory of African American History, and has co-edited Race Struggles and Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future with Mary Frances Berry and V.P. Franklin.
He is a founding scholar and trainer of the Policing in a Multiracial Society Program (PSMP), which provides anti-racial bias training for police recruits at the University of Illinois Police Training Institute and researches racial attitudes and training effectiveness.
He has also served as President of the National Council for Black Studies (2010–2014), Senior Editor of The Black Scholar (2011–2015), and Associate Editor of the Journal of African American History (2015–2018).”
yeah
good post
these pos must be defunded
Sundiata Cha-Jua
ASSOC PROF, ASSOC PROF
Recorded Salary (2025): $120,208
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua is an Associate Professor in the Departments of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he has been a faculty member since 2001.
25 years and still an Associate Professor only earning $120k?
Although $120,ooo, great benefits including health care, certainly beats working for a living…
The university of illinois used to be a good school. Now it’s a liberal hell hole