Word: transafrica
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...holdings that involve U.S. and foreign companies with interests in South Africa. Both houses of Congress have called for economic sanctions against Pretoria, and divestiture proposals have come before virtually every state legislature. "Many Americans knew nothing about apartheid before the demonstrations began," says Randall Robinson, executive director of Transafrica, a black-led lobbying group that coordinates the Washington protests. "Now there is a new understanding of South African repression...
...committee is co-chaired by Ogletree, Adjoa A. Aiyetoro, an attorney for the National Coalition for Black Reparations in America and Randall Robinson, who graduated from HLS in 1970 and is president emeritus for the TransAfrica lobby organization...
Robinson himself has a history of being on the cutting edge of activism, as the founder and executive director of TransAfrica, a think-tank and lobbying group best-known for its part in the ending of apartheid...
...pessimism isn't shared by Charles Ogletree, a Harvard law professor who has put together a Reparations Coordinating Committee to plot possible legal strategies. Or by Randall Robinson, head of the Washington-based lobbying group TransAfrica, which led the battle to impose the economic sanctions that helped topple white rule in South Africa. Robinson, who jump-started the reparations campaign last year with his book The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks, predicts that once blacks are unified behind the idea, whites can be persuaded to support reparations by an appeal to their sense of justice. "I don't think...
...read Randall Robinson's new book, "The Debt, What America Owes to Blacks" (Dutton, 262 pages, $23.95) - an extraordinarily eloquent work that places the reparations discussion in the larger historical framework of 246 years of slavery and another hundred years of Jim Crow and racial discrimination. Robinson, president of TransAfrica (which did much to fight apartheid, among other battles), declares: "...the black holocaust is far and away the most heinous human rights crime visited upon any group of people in the world over the last five hundred years." Elie Wiesel has warned against comparing atrocities - but Robinson makes a persuasive...