Posted on 08/02/2016 2:14:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Natasha Marin is a Seattle artist who noticed a divide on her Facebook feed: her black friends were angry and frustrated about police shootings of black men, and her white friends were saying they wanted to help, but didnt know what to do.
There is a discrepancy in the lives of people of color and white-identified people in the United States, Marin said.
Marin put together the Reparations site and accompanying Facebook event. It was a place where people of color could post needs and white people could help meet those needs.
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I feel like a lot of my white-identified friends and allies would like something specific to do so that they can feel less mired in guilt and stagnation, watching videos of brutality against people of color, angry articles, posts, she said.
Almost immediately, offers and requests started pouring in. Many of the requests are serious, tangible needs: money for groceries, a place to live, tuition assistance, car repairs. People responded with donations or posted something else they could provide: resume editing, dogsitting, rides around town.
Leveraging your privilege doesn't necessarily have to cost you financially, Marin said. Will you listen to me yell and scream for an hour and just vent my anger in a way thats safe? Can you teach me how to sculpt or bead? Can you mentor me? If you're an executive at a company and somebodys looking for a job, youre a referral your name drop could make a difference in that person's life.
Of course, like many online activities, particularly concerning race, trolls emerged. Marin and her network created a way to deal with them: the Troll Slaying Brigade. The Brigade donates a dollar to someone who has made a request on the site for every negative comment received.
So now the trolls are on our side and the trolls have actually raised more money than had been raised prior, Marin said.
The project name, Reparations, may evoke some divisive reactions, but Marin said the word does not have to be about a specific historical event.
It's really about making something that's broken, fixed. And being generous is a great way to fix that feeling in your spirit.
For the most part I think that we all want the same things: We want to be seen, we want to be remembered well and we want to add value to humanity. We want to make an impact in some positive way, and this is a really doable way to do that.
Just sit and think right now to yourself, What is it that I could offer a stranger? How could I add value to somebodys life?
One dopey white a## hag
I wouldn't think welfare dependency could go any lower, but it seems they've found a new, lower level below even "total disgrace."
Its another made up phrase, like micro aggression, and safe place.
If these goobers spent as much time working as wordsmithing nonsense, they would have the economic equality they are demanding, almost at gunpoint. (thats next)
Hey I am a slave to the government. All taxpayers are slaves and as a conservative I am being oppressed. I need a reparation.
Sorry, I thought this was the article about that fat pig that got arrested for painting BLM graffiti on public property.
Bold defiant equalizing individualism rather then submissive crippling mob domination.
Since Johnson’s “Great Society”, blacks have been receiving
“reparations” from a lot of “white workers”. We have
certainly paid plenty of taxes over the years and are still
working at over 70 yrs. of age.
Seattle; figures.
White Privilege = working hard to get through school and making a living through work.
My racial guilt card was maxed out a long time ago.
Wow, could this woman be more condescending and racist???
Seriously, Just wow...
AA can’t make it unless whites help them?????
Screw it, I have no racial guilt card. No one in my ancestry had the slightest anything to do with slavery, not that I am responsible for my ancestors anyway. My ancestors weren’t even in the USA during the slavery era. Yes, we are proud LEGAL immigrants of later eras. Ofc, all US blacks alive today are very far removed from any contact with slavery, and are not deserving of reparations from anyone.
Hey lady, I want some money, give it to me!!
Sorry, reparations are only for chattel slaves. You, citizen, are privileged to be donating your services to the government in order to help society. For that you deserve only the bare minimum of shelter and sustenance necessary to enable you to function in whatever role our benevolent leaders have elected to assign to you in their infinite wisdom. Clearly, citizen, you are in need of an attitude adjustment. Report to room 101 immediately.
found it on imgur.... if you like it, copy it now. The original poster didn’t think it would last.
Liked the subtle reference to aliens....LOL!
“Are you Natasha? Hi, I signed up to have a black man berate me for an hour. Am I in the right place?”
“Here is fine, but you can pick up the State of the Union speech on any television.”
Moonbats never cease to amaze me...
This we are owed fries my ass. I recall when everyone worked both black and white. Blacks did not expect handouts. I started working summers in high school on construction. My boss had me unloading boxcars full of plywood in the hot summer sun in Virginia. He was building more quarters for officers and NCO’s at Langley AFB in Hampton, VA. I was made his driver after two weeks busting ass and never complaining. I drove places like Norfolk to pick up items for the boss. There is no damn reason everyone who is able should not work. I saw AA in 1970 in the Army. Almost 50 damn years of preferences and they still BITCH.
Sadly, you are correct. :(
Adding: we are law abiding and try to be honest and I am beginning to wonder if we are fools for being so. For example, my liberal friend thought that Obamacare is wonderful and she is playing games in order to not to have buy insurance for her employees.
“...so that they can feel less mired in guilt and stagnation...”
I can say with complete assurance that I feel absolutely no guilt and stagnation for the populace of the Democratic Plantation who sold their souls and selves for free sh!t.
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