The Kentucky US Freedmen Coalition is a 501 C3 as a private operating foundation, a grass root organization, that is working to repair the damages done by asymmetrical systems and institutions of oppression used against the American Freedmen and their descendants during and after slavery. From the black codes, peonage system, Jim Crow and from the denial of the Homestead act and GI Bill and more modern-day mass incarceration and preschool to prison pipeline as well as the damaging effects of COVID-19. Our organization prioritizes reparations for descendants of chattel slavery in the United States of America. Ours is an experience defined by the unique, shared cost of multigenerational plunder. And as we stand in the shoes of our ancestors, we insist upon reinstatement of the US Freedmen designation and the Office of Freedmen Affairs. 

During Reconstruction, America reneged on the promise of forty acres and a mule, depriving us of the fruits of citizenship and relegating us to a permanent bottom caste within the country that our ancestors built. Reparations is our birthright and must come through multigenerational direct payments and a redistribution of land that rights the wrongs of the great land robbery.

A debt must be paid, and our inheritance protected. We insist upon an historic, targeted allotment of policy and protections that fulfills the promise of economic inclusion and integrates the descendants of chattel slavery into the drivers of wealth. This restoration—which brings us into alignment with the full measure of our contribution to the U.S.—requires mechanisms to safeguard against subprime and predatory capital and sweeping anti-discrimination legislation targeted for the protection of, and accelerated wealth creation of, the descendants of chattel slavery in the U.S.

Any Reparations program should follow the 5 pillars laid out by the United Nations see below photo.