NEW ENGLAND N'COBRA

The New England Chapter of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA) works to organize, educate and engage.

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     We work to organize people of African descent in the critical work of internal reparations. Just as a doctor can put a splint on an arm with a broken bone, we must do the healing internally. People of African descent must do the crucial work of internal repair required to heal from the injuries of African chattel slavery and its own going vestiges.

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     We work to educate. From 400 years of colonial miseducation and white supremacist disinformation, there is serious unlearning the must happen for both people of African and European descent. The ghosts of shame that haunt many people of African descent as a result of the cruelty and inhumanity of the society created by European enslavers and their descendants must be vanquished. The ghosts of guilt that haunt the descendants of European enslavers must be addressed. We have to turn both type of ghosts into ancestors.

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     We work to engage. We work to engage all in the relational work of repair of the five injury areas resulting from African chattel enslavement. As we address the injuries we also lift up the five remedies of reparations identified by the United Nations. The work we engage in is not transactional but rather it is relational. We match the remedy to the injury. Africans and Europeans were scarred by the dehumanization of the African personality in the European imagination.