Dr. King Leinage Inspiration

Reparations Is a Debt Owed

“America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’”
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1963

Reparations are not a gift.
They are a debt long overdue—owed for the stolen labor, dignity, and freedom of enslaved people in this nation.

Today, their descendants are no longer asking.
They are demanding payment for the generations of unpaid labor that built the wealth of the United States.

❗ Withholding Reparations Is a Message

By refusing to pay that debt, the government continues to send a dangerous message:

That the enslaved were unworthy of wages.
That their stolen lives held no economic value.
That the injustice was never wrong enough to make right.

This is not just about money. It is about dignity.
The same government that paid slaveholders for their ‘loss of property’ still refuses to pay the descendants of the people who were enslaved.

Our Project Aligns Reparations Call to Action

REPARATIONS IS A DEMAND FOR THAT PAY.

It is the call for justice delayed to finally be justice delivered.
It is a spiritual and economic reckoning.
It is a moral imperative.

The Meaning Behind the Name: 440400

The name 440400 holds deep symbolic meaning in this venture

• 4 → Represents who the socialbenefits: the descendants of the enslaved.
  
  

• 40 → Calls back the 40 acres and a mule, a promise broken by the U.S. government—a tangible symbol of wealth denied.
  
  

• 400 → Reminds the world of a biblical and historical timeline:
  
  

  • Over 400 years of bondage, exploitation, systemic oppression.
    
    

  • From slavery to redlining, to mass incarceration, to exclusion from capital and credit.
    
    

  • The full arc of suffering and survival.
    
    

💬 “Now is the time...”

440400 stands on the principle that the past was placed in our hands—descendants of both the oppressed and the privileged—even though we were not there.
We live with its consequences.

We believe that we can—and must—do something now to address the enduring harms of that history.
Harms that continue to fall disproportionately on the descendants of those who were enslaved.

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We at 440400 we are to invest in reparative justice, to build what was denied, and to deliver a repreive to some until they get what was earned.