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Editor’s note: This article appeared in the New York Amsterdam News on May 7, 2020. The Burning Spear salutes Assemblyman Charles Barron who is a long-standing member of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations.

“Once I got my unemployment check, the first thing I did was donate to Uhuru Furniture. It’s so much more than a store! It is building the rising liberated economy in the hands of the African community.  Everyone has a stake in this institution continuing to thrive!” This was the comment by Cota after she contributed to the Uhuru Furniture GoFundMe site at UhuruFurniture.org.

From massive strokes in young people, to permanent damage to the heart, lungs, kidneys and liver and the weakening of the immune system, more and more symptoms and effects of the COVID-19 disease are coming to light as the world total of cases tops three million.

It is an undeniable fact that Africans cannot sit in our cars with our spouses and children, buy candy, wear hoodies, sell loose cigarettes, meet friends at coffee shops, celebrate our weddings, mind our business in our homes (or anywhere for that matter) and a plethora of many other ‘offenses’ without being under the constant threat of being murdered by the State and its minions.

It is time to demand reparations from the parasites, thieves and bloodsuckers who are fattening their bellies off the COVID-19 crisis while Africans and Indigenous people are dying at genocidal rates.

St Petersburg, FL—City officials are opening up Florida beaches, resulting in the trending hashtag #FloridaMorons. What is not captured in the hashtag is that while white people are fighting for more exposure to the virus, African people are dying at alarming rates throughout the country and struggling more than usual to survive under colonial domination.

White people from California to Germany are protesting lockdowns and stay-at-home orders put in place to protect them from the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 19 is when Oakland, located in Alameda County, issued its shelter in place order, part of a combined six-county effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 cases.

The devastation caused by the colonialvirus, also known as COVID-19, to the African community in Philadelphia has been staggering.