*Late civil rights activist Muhammad Kenyatta once made a claim for why Foundational Black Americans (FBA) are owed to Black Americans.
“America would not be the wealthy country it is today if it were not for the resources of Black people, the free labor of Black people,” Kenyatta said, during a 1969 interview with the Philadelphia “Input” discussion program,” Moguldom reports.
Kenyatta added, “And it’s since slavery the process has continued; that second-class citizenship, job discrimination, that these are just manifestations of kind of an updated slavery, a new style slavery to me, new economic and social conditions.”
He continued, “Looking at that, we see a whole case for the sense of debt, the idea of debt. Moreover, we can look at historical and political precedence.”
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Can’t let this day end without acknowledging what would have been my grandfather’s 77th birthday. Muhammad Kenyatta was a giant of a man and everyday I stand on his shoulders. pic.twitter.com/bDSGIi5nFA
— Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (@malcolmkenyatta) March 4, 2021
Kenyatta went on to note the two reasons why reparations were made for the Jews after the Holocaust: stolen land by the German government and the mass murder of Jewish people by Nazis.
“The parallels for Black people are, of course, the stolen labor, the free labor, in fact, the stolen people who were literally, physically stolen from one place and transported to another,” Kenyatta said. “And, of course, the series of barbarities practiced against our people have meant for us that we have always lived in a fascist nation.”
“We have not experienced just a five or six-year period of fascism, but we’ve experienced a history in this country – it’s been a history of … 40 million Black people killed before getting to America on the slave ships … the countless lynchings, the countless acts of wanton police brutality … for us this has been the course of events,” Kenyatta continued.
Kenyatta was a legal scholar and law professor who ran for mayor of Philadelphia in 1975 but did not receive the Democratic nomination.
When the FBI’s illegal Counterintelligence Program (Cointelpro) harassed him relentlessly, Kenyatta sued the federal government in 1969 but ultimately lost his case.
He died in 1992 at age 47 after a long battle with failing health and diabetes, per Moguldom.
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