If you're reading this on Oct. 10, 2007 then let me wish you a happy National Panhandling for Reparations Day.
The event, invented by performance artist damali ayo (she spells it lower case), involves at least 65 people around the United States and in the UK and New Zealand collecting money on the streets and paying it back out to passing black people. Donors and recipients will get receipts.
Ayo says on her website that the purpose for the event is to open a dialog about reparations for slavery in the United States. I will have some comments on this subject tomorrow, but until then, here are some links:
the official page for the First Annual National Day of Panhandling for Reparations
damali ayo's website
a discussion of the event at the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe forum
If you have any other links related to this event that you think should be included here, please send them to hollowtreesubmit@gmail.com I'll post them up right away.
10/9/2007 23:32:41
The event, invented by performance artist damali ayo (she spells it lower case), involves at least 65 people around the United States and in the UK and New Zealand collecting money on the streets and paying it back out to passing black people. Donors and recipients will get receipts.
Ayo says on her website that the purpose for the event is to open a dialog about reparations for slavery in the United States. I will have some comments on this subject tomorrow, but until then, here are some links:
the official page for the First Annual National Day of Panhandling for Reparations
damali ayo's website
a discussion of the event at the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe forum
If you have any other links related to this event that you think should be included here, please send them to hollowtreesubmit@gmail.com I'll post them up right away.
10/9/2007 23:32:41
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