Black Lives Matter activist Bree Newsome slammed white Americans whose families allegedly stole property from black Americans and committed “atrocities” earlier in the nation’s history.
“Amazing how white people commit atrocities in one generation & then they just disappear from existence,” she said in a series of tweets calling for reparations.
Amazing how white people commit atrocities in one generation & then they just disappear from existence. No descendants, no names, no current wealth or land holdings that can be identified as a result of the atrocity. Only Black survivors exist with living memory, apparently.
— DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES (@BreeNewsome) May 31, 2021
In the tweets making a case for reparations, Newsome alleged that some white families benefited after stealing land from black Americans.
“No descendants, no names, no current wealth or land holdings that can be identified as a result of the atrocity. Only Black survivors exist with living memory, apparently,” Newsome, a filmmaker and activist who supports the Black Lives Matter movement, added.
“White violence has driven Black migration across the country and led to significant loss of land and wealth, but we can’t identify to whose hands specific plots of land and subsequent wealth was transferred? The current class of wealthy white people have no connection? Hmm,” she wrote in a second tweet.
“Y’all really think there aren’t white people alive today who know the details of certain lynchings either firsthand or because it’s family lore and still have souvenirs, land or money from it in their possession?”
Y’all really think there aren’t white people alive today who know the details of certain lynchings either firsthand or because it’s family lore and still have souvenirs, land or money from it in their possession?
— DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES (@BreeNewsome) May 31, 2021
Newsome brought up the issue of reparations during an interview with Complex last year, where she specifically named Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and former President Donald Trump as examples of rich people who resist the idea.
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“The United States of America owes us more than they can pay,” she said in the interview. “The reality is modern white civilization — we’re talking the past half-millennia — is built upon Black enslavement. The thing I caution against is allowing the white establishment to go through a process where they feel they paid reparations to us, but they’re still continuing to feed from us and build their civilization off our degradation.”
“We cannot have Jeff Bezos having hundreds of billions of dollars. That cannot happen anymore.” she added. “We can’t have someone like Donald Trump inherit wealth and then become the president of the United States just because he inherited wealth. That cannot happen anymore. That’s what they’re going to be most resistant to. They’ll give us a little cash. They don’t have a problem giving us a little cash if they have to.”
