I think [USER=993]blackice_ATL[/USER] doesn't explain it well enough sometimes but he's coming from a self-sufficiency standpoint. If we get paid in US Dollars, are given land controlled and defended by the US Government then we are still US Government subjects. So effectively we are repaired but within the confines and systems controlled by those who hate our very existence.
I don't think his point discounts the need for, or discounts our righteous entitlement to reparations, I think it just highlights how it is not the magic band-aid many (not saying you) think it is going to be. It's like the Jews trusting Hitler to protect them...he may subside for a bit but he'll be plotting and when they least expect it he will attack again.
So I'm all for reparations, I go to reparations meetings here in LA, have another coming up in 2 weeks but I PERSONALLY do not see how we will ever be able to live in this system unharmed if we are tethered to it. Any Black nation that is attached to the Liberal World Order is not an equal partner of it, it's at best a servant to it.
I believe Malcolm X had the most realistic and long-term plan which was to become self-sufficient here, have some form of economy/entrpenuerialism, and then ally with an African nation with the Black American side having some leverage. That way we can begin to truly build independence from our oppressor.
There can be independence in a local sense but from a macro perspective we will still be impacted by US Geopolitical Gang-banging and the retaliatory blowback from it.
