S E89: A Letter to a Master Concerning Reparations

This Is Karen Hunter

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The master of a former enslaved man asks him to return to the plantation because it has fallen in disrepair. Karen reads the response to this master that the man sent and talks about why the case for reparations is still relevant today.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. So there's been a lot of discussion about reparations and I have been on the record as saying that reparations is owed to every descendant of an enslaved person in the United States of America and throughout the diaspora actually.
0:24.2	I don't believe that this country has the appetite or the soul
0:29.7	to actually do what's right, but I'm not asking.
0:32.3	I don't believe we should ask for anything I believe we should take what's ours and I also believe that we have everything that we need to build a future that we want to build on I don't want to wait for anyone to come and hand us what is owed.
0:46.7	Now that's it. We should continue to fight. Every candidate running for president should
0:50.6	answer the question, should have a plan for reparations for descendants
0:54.3	of enslaved people in this country.
0:58.0	But that said, I think there was just recently a hearing before Congress that featured Tanahasi Coates who wrote what I believe is the quintessential peace on the reason why reparations is old and it's called the case for reparations and he wrote that while at the Atlantic.
1:15.6	You can Google search that.
1:16.6	Matter of fact I'll put the link in the body of this podcast so check it out in the
1:22.0	description.
1:23.1	All right, Danny Glover also spoke before Congress
1:27.1	and Juliet Marvo, who is an economist.
1:31.0	She also spoke about the economics and why it's deserved but the best case I've read in a while was actually written by a former enslaved person.
1:42.0	It's a letter that he wrote to by a former enslaved person.
1:43.0	It's a letter that he wrote to his former master.
1:46.0	It is dated August 7, 1865.
1:51.0	It is from Dayton, Ohio, and the letter says,
1:55.0	to my old master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee.
2:00.5	And the author, his name is Jordan Anderson who was enslaved from 1825 until emancipation.
2:10.0	He worked on a plantation for 39 years and in 1864 the Union Army who was camped out on the plantation where he was, he and his wife and his family, came and liberated he and his wife and his family, came and liberated he and his family.
2:24.6	They left that plantation and ended up in Dayton, Ohio, where July 1865,
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