Bankers Sued for Slave Reparations

 

Despite all the media hype about reparations for African-Americans, one major lawsuit involving reparations has not received much publicity. Find out why.

 

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By Michael Collins Piper

 

It hasn’t made much of a splash in the mainstream media, but the world’s wealthiest, most powerful and highly respected international banking family—the Rothschilds—has been targeted in a lawsuit by African-Americans who allege that numerous Rothschild empire-related corporations profited from the African slave trade.

Neither ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN nor Fox—all of which are owned by a clique of powerful, interconnected families and corporations with ties to the Rothschild interests—have reported on this story.

However, on Sept. 4 a brief item appearing in The Washington Post, referencing the Reuters news service, provided some specifics.

African-American citizens—descendants of slaves—have filed suit against a number of major global corporations demanding reparations for reaping profits on the backs of slaves.

The Post cited Deadria Farmer-Paellman, who is filing lawsuits against a diverse series of corporate targets demanding that they release corporate archives which might shed light on how those corporations may have profited from the slave trade.

Farmer-Paellman had previously filed a federal class action suit against CSX railroad, which used slave labor in building its lines, and Aetna, the insurance giant. Aetna apologized for insuring owners against injured and runaway slaves, but has refused to make restitution.

What the story in the Post did not mention—but which is very much the case—is that many (if not all) of the corporations targeted are corporations historically controlled by the wide-ranging international web primarily dominated by the Rothschild family.

The diverse targets include: J. P. Morgan Chase & Co., Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Brown Brothers Harriman, the Loews Corp, and Lloyds of London among several others. These named corporations are all part of the Rothschild sphere of influence, which includes such wealthy families as the Bronfmans, the Reichmanns, the Belzbergs, the Newhouses, Murdochs, Sulzbergers and others.

Other corporations named include American Inter national Group, Inc., the insurance firm, as well as Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern Corp. railroads. WestPoint Stevens Inc., a textile firm, and such tobacco makers as R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc., Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. and Liggett Group, which is now indirectly owned by Vector Group Ltd.

The interests, which dominate the American media, have downplayed the significance of these lawsuits, but the ramifications are far reaching: rather than asking every American taxpayer to “kick in” for reparations, those who are asking for payback are targeting those who actually profited directly from the slave trade.