“I have one objective, win ’em for freedom.” Black nationalist “Queen Mother” Audley Moore understood the importance of documenting racial disparities and spent her life advocating for reparations and decolonization.
“Something that is often missing from ‘reparations talk,’ ” legal scholar Alfred Brophy observed in 2010, “is a specific plan for repairing past tragedies.” California and New York have joined the dozen or so states and municipalities that have initiated what they are calling reparations programs. As a core platform issue, presidential candidate Marianne Williamson proposed up to $500 billion in payments to the descendants of US slavery, but even that was woefully inadequate.
The racial wealth gap is the most robust indicator of the cumulative economic effects of white supremacy in the United States. It is on average about $850,000 per black household, for a total of $14 trillion. The annual budgets of all 50 states and every municipality in the country combined is about $4.68 trillion. Only the federal government has the capacity to pay the bill, and a sufficient proportion of white Americans must support doing so.
Pan-Africanists invoke Moore’s name because she also embraced decolonization and freedom for Africa and believed the federal government should provide funds to black Americans who wanted to repatriate to the continent. Moore appears to be consistent in arguing that reparations from the US government should go to blacks whose ancestors were enslaved here and not to blacks who migrated here after slavery ended, particularly the large number who came after the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
An organizational zelig, Moore was a member of the Communist, Republican, and Democratic parties, as well as the Elks and the Masons; she was a Catholic, an ordained bishop, and a convert to the Baptist and Ethiopian Orthodox communities of faith, and the Apostolic Orthodox Church of Judah. “’Ive got all the religions,” she said years later. “I have one objective, win ’em for freedom.”
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