Reparations fight will not be won anytime soon, but they are all in
Growing up in the District’s Trinidad neighborhood in the 1970s, Roslyn Mickens heard stories from her parents about the indignities experienced by Black people in D.C. during the Jim Crow era. A young Roslyn would ask questions about that peculiar institution but didn’t always understand the answers.“'Why couldn’t my grandparents vote?’” she recalled wanting to know. “'Why do I have to be twice as good as Whites’? My parents told me about racism, but it made no sense.
The online discussion group drew more members and soon evolved into an organization — called the DMV Freedmen, composed of American Freedmen residing in the D.C. metropolitan area.“We are just regular people that had to get into this because our elected officials aren’t making much progress,” Mickens said.
Also, some Pan Africanist advocates believe that differentiating among Black people would foster bitter divisiveness and lead to xenophobia. “America goes around the world draining other countries of their skilled populations but never truly building up its own people,” Mickens said. “Why not pledge to turn out 50,000 new freedmen nurses? Or more freedmen doctors? Don’t just help some group you decided to call ‘people of color’ and claim you’ve done something for the freedmen.”
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