Reparations racket. (Insider Report).On March 26th in Brooklyn, the first lawsuit seeking reparations reparations, payments or other compensation offered as an indemnity for loss or damage. Although the term is used to cover payments made to Holocaust survivors and to Japanese Americans interned during World War II in so-called relocation camps (and used as well to for blacks from companies that supposedly profited directly or indirectly from pre-Civil War slavery was filed in U.S. District Court. The targeted firms include Aetna Incorporated, CSX Corporation, and FleetBoston Financial Corporation. Lead plaintiff is Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, 36, a black activist and attorney who entered Boston's New England School of Law  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . specifically to research and build the case for reparations litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. . The main force behind the litigation strategy, however, is the Reparations Coordinating Committee co-chaired by Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree and TransAfrica founder and former president Randall Robinson. Any reparations largesse lar·gess also lar·gesse n. 1. a. Liberality in bestowing gifts, especially in a lofty or condescending manner. b. Money or gifts bestowed. 2. Generosity of spirit or attitude. would not likely go directly to individuals, but would instead be earmarked for new and expanded government programs for those blacks supposedly not benefitting from integration, affirmative action affirmative action, in the United States, programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. , and other racial policies. Though corporations are currently the primary targets, other entities (including colleges, universities, and news media) are also on the reparations hit list. The UN may also become involved in the reparations war. Writing in the March 31st New York Times, reparations committee co-chair Ogletree recalled that a UN-sponsored racism conference branded slavery a "crime against humanity In international law a crime against humanity is an act of persecution or any large scale atrocities against a body of people, and is the highest level of criminal offense. ," which he depicted as a "legal determination that may enable the reparations movement to extend its reach to international forums." Despite its preposterous and unjust demands, equivalent to asking today's Egyptians to pay reparations to Jews for Old Testament-era slavery, the U.S. reparations movement should be taken very seriously. |
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