#DoBetter (Point 9) - Individual action steps in support of the 10-Point Reparations Plan.
What IS the 10 point plan?
NAARC’s Preliminary 10 Point Reparations Program is a document for review, revision and adoption as a platform to guide the struggle for Reparations for people of African descent in the United States of America.
FFRN! Is focusing primarily on Point #9 of the 10 point plan: Preserving Black Sacred Sites and Monuments
All across this land there are slave quarters, hundreds of sites where Black people were lynched, and locales where Black towns and institutions were destroyed. But, there are also Black burial grounds, Black towns, houses of worship, meeting halls, one-room schools and other significant institutions that speak to the triumphant quest of a determined people to create a new African community in this hostile land.
These Black Sacred Sites and Monuments must be preserved as permanent memorials to continuously inform and inspire future generations of people of African descent about this legacy of trials, tribulations and triumph and to remind America of the white supremacist terror employed to obstruct the path to freedom of African Americans.
What can you do to actively support Point 9?
Look up the following information on foundations that are working to reclaim family burial grounds and other sacred institutions.
Yamona Pierce is working tirelessly to reclaim the burial grounds near Pierce Chapel in Harris County, GA. Her ancestors along with countless others are buried there in a destroyed and overgrown plot that is privately owned. Owned by the same family who enslaved her ancestors and refuse to address its disrepair and disrespect. Please support her and her family as they reclaim their birthright...to be given a space to honor their ancestors.
African American Burial Grounds Network Act HR 1179
AABGNA is to direct the National Park Service to study ways to account for and preserve historic African American cemeteries and burial grounds before they are lost to time, decay, apathy, or development.
Georgia B Williams Nursing Home Restoration
After identifying the demand for safe birthing options for Black women who often were denied basic medical attention in the Jim Crow South, Beatrice Borders, a 3rd generation Midwife, opened her home. She assisted in the healthy arrival of over 6,000 babies
Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home Inc. is a non-profit organization established to memorialize the historic residence owned and operated by the late Beatrice Borders.
Ancestral Healing through Genealogy
Researching Enslavers and Reframing the Narrative with Adrienne Fikes (Podcast)
Look up your city to see how redlining affected the growth and economy of certain neighborhoods (Including yours and your ancestors!)
Other Action Steps
Read a book that educates and moves your out of your comfort zone: Whiteness is not an Ancestor, The Kidnapping Club, The Ledger and The Chain, Overturning the Culture of Violence.
Find out if your local government has joined the coalition of mayors that support reparations: Mayors Organized for Reparations and Equity.
Rebuke White Supremacy Delusion
“The delusion of white supremacy is not just a problem in the United States. It is a global construct. It is a problem of what humanity does to itself with power and externalized self-hatred. Part of the evil genius of the most successful PR campaign ever (the campaign to convince the world that race is real and whiteness somehow superior) is that much of its power currently rests in its relative invisibility–especially to white people. The effects are visible and measurable, but the phenomenon itself remains veiled in the shadows”
-Tiffany Rae
https://moremayors.org
Rebuke White Supremacy Delusion
“The delusion of white supremacy is not just a problem in the United States. It is a global construct. It is a problem of what humanity does to itself with power and externalized self-hatred.Part of the evil genius of the most successful PR campaign ever (the campaign to convince the world that race is real and whiteness somehow superior) is that much of its power currently rests in its relative invisibility–especially to white people. The effects are visible and measurable, but the phenomenon itself remains veiled in the shadows.”
-Tiffany Rae