By Omali Yeshitela
Stolen Black hard work: The Political economic system of household Colonialism exhibits the root of the call for by way of African humans within the U.S. for $4.1 trillion in reparations.
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In addition, he furnished renters supplies from his store, receiving a lien on their crops. ) while being forced to labor at bare subsistence levels. The values of these products represent wealth created by African labor, with only a small percent held back for survival and reproduction. Indeed, African workers were not paid even the value of their labor power. That Is, we were not paid enough to survive and reproduce. Just as during slavery, we were forced to main· taln small vegetable patches which were tended at night and by children In order to stave off starvation.
WAGE DIFFERENTIAL There are endless ways one might approach the problem of determining the amount of wealth stolen from African people under the neo-colonial structures of modern imperialism. The important thing is to demonstrate that there is a concrete, material difference between the conditions of North American workers and those of African workers as well as showing the substantial colonial profits which are derived from that difference. While many of our Marxists today seek to obscure the distinction and include the exploitation of African workers in their overall statistics on working class exploitation, it was left to liberal sociologists who were making economic assessments of the nature of the crisis during the Civil Rights Movement to study the objective data on the components of the exploitation of African people.
11 On this land, only 13 percent of African farmers were land-owners as compared to 63 percent of white farmers in the South. 5 in 1930. 7 acres and rose to 176 acres in 1930. 12 Shocking as these differences are, however, it is worse. Most African farmers were tenant farmers and worked plots from 15 to 40 acres, with the average being 37 acres. Cash tenants made up 7 percent of African farmers (those who worked a white man's land and paid him a cash rental rate). Share tenants and share croppers made up 43 percent and wage laborers (migrant workers) made up 37 percent.