The book ends with an appendix titled Ten Practical Things You Can Do for the Reparations Struggle, which I will simplify here:
- Read about the history of the reparations struggle
- Join an organization that supports reparations
- Ask all politicians running for office if they support reparations for the transatlantic slave trade
- Organize a study group in your community on reparation
- Keep up with current developments in the reparations struggle
- Lobby for local “slavery disclosure resolutions” that will aid in the development of lawsuits against governments and corporations that profited from the transatlantic slave trade
- Understand the international dimensions of the reparations struggle (which is not confined to the USA)
- Have viewing parties of films that document the current exploitation of Africans in the world (films such as Life and Debt and Darwin’s Nightmare)
- Immediately write a rebutal to any article that opposes reparations
- Tell others about those nine
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