Transferring activity to the blog Landscape Reparations

 Transferring activity to this blog. Local Dallas activity will be covered by Landscape Reparations blog. 

https://landscapereparations.blogspot.com/

There is a webpage with information on Landscape Reparations also at:

http://templeofdemocracy.com/landscape-reparations.html

There is also a YouTube channel Landscape Reparations with its first video, maps talk.

https://youtu.be/MErB-nKphbE

Botham Jean Memorial Committee introduces the concept of Landscape Reparations into public discussion via Dallas Observer article.

Often the first thing to be done is to get people thinking in new ways and that involves often new concepts and that involves new terms to get people thinking about new ideas. 

The new terms and new concept is "landscape reparations." 

It is mentioned in this article. 

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-botham-jean-boulevard-lamar-street-11922314

I have a web page on Landscape Reparations with articles and pod casts. 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/landscape-reparations.html

At this page I have links to a page on name changes in South Africa. 

The Botham Jean Committee had a rally and the terms "landscape reparations" were used in the speeches and additonally the fact that the landscape didn't have Africaness was mentioned. So the concept is now out  there, and I hope it goes national. I haven't put the speeches online. I hope to get that done at some point. Look to this blog to see the updated info. 

The Friendship West Baptist Church had a speaker and the speaker used the term and it was used in their Zoom broadcast. So the concept is out there. I look forward to it continuing to spread and to reach a broader audience, hopefully nationally. 

https://youtu.be/ozVKptKrnbw

https://www.facebook.com/BothamJeanMemorial

Landscape Reparations - Looking at the Landscape as a totality

One of the problems I think with getting rid of Confederate monuments, Confederate named streets is that they are looked at in isolation, instead of considering the entire landscape and realizing it is a white landscape and realizing that there needs to be Landscape Reparations. If you are interested in getting involved join the DeRacialize the Landscape Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/661267871019209/

This is my first postcast on the topic.It is the first Version. I am just starting to think through the issue of Landscape Reparations and I am putting out some ideas, but I also ask the listener to share their ideas. (This doesn't mean I am interested in the rantings of white nationalists.) I think the biggest barrier is people thinking that nothing can be done.



This is the companion piece. I will have more podcasts on what can be done regarding the white landscape.