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FOX News reports:
University of Illinois hosted state-funded committee meeting where professors advocated for reparationsThe 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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