We, the supporters of Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM) and the African People's Socialist Party (APSP), petition the Black Market and the Boston Hassle to lift their ban on the Uhuru Solidarity Movement from tabling at the Black Market. USM raises reparations to Black Star Industries: the black-led economic development projects of the APSP. USM has had massive support at the Black Market, because white people are responding to the positive vision of reparations to African people as the way to rectify our relationship to the rest of humanity. White people want to do something beyond anti-racism or charity and support these positive programs of black self-determination in several cities across the US. The reparations that USM is raising in the upcoming year will go to the Black Power Blueprint in St. Louis, which is building black power institutions by and for the black community such as a community center, an outdoor venue, and a kitchen with an independent workforce program for formerly incarcerated African people.
To block USM from participating is an attack on the right of a black working-class led organization to have a presence in this market in the form of the Solidarity Movement. It is racist, undemocratic and unprincipled. We are calling on everyone to demand that Black Market end its racist stance of opposing a black working-class movement having a booth in their market, and allow USM to come back for the next market.
