Sekou Sundiata: “Come on and Bring on the Reparations”

'The late Sekou Sundiata was a poet, performer, playwright, band leader, Grammy-nominated recording artist, and teacher. His work drew from African diasporic traditions and reflected the culture and experience of black America, with subject matters ranging from the work of Jimi Hendrix to the scourge of addiction to the need for reparations. His poem “Come on and Bring on the Reparations” deals with the debts that white culture and society owe to African-Americans; it was read for The New Yorker Radio Hour by Sundiata’s friend and fellow-writer Carl Hancock Rux.'