Black Reparations Are Key On Path To Healing, Groups Claim
by Karina Donica - The Town Talk (excerpt)

COLFAX -- A plaque stands as a reminder of the Colfax Massacre in front of a small town Courthouse, but a few feet away from the landmark a group of black men and women decried the injustices of the massacre and other historic events, they say, will only be healed with reparations.

"This morning is all about reparations," said Johnita Scott a member of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, who traveled from Baton Rouge to join the event Sunday in the Colfax City Hall.

"Reparations really connect all the dots" of history and it stand as the natural next step today, Scott said.

Diana Kimble, of the coalition said the Jena Six case and the Colfax massacre intersect because they are both about injustices against the black race.

"Reparations are the key to all of the injustices," Kimble, adding that reparations are not a handout but are necessary to correct a great wrong.