Posted on 02/04/2024 9:09:16 PM PST by Libloather
Reparations advocates had the wind in their sails last year.
Cities across the US set up teams to hash out plans to compensate black people for the legacy of slavery, taking their cue from a successful pilot in Evanston, Illinois.
The landscape in 2024 is very different.
Squad member Cori Bush, the Missouri Democrat who has championed payouts, is under investigation for campaign spending violations.
Her bid for a $14 trillion federal compensation package is dead in the water.
The reparations task force in Detroit — a hub for African-American culture — has descended into a 'shambles' of quitting and in-fighting.
And California's black lawmakers this week backtracked on plans to pay $1.2 million to each resident.
While many black voters are keen to get checks in the mail, only a fraction think they'll see such a day in their lifetimes.
Mike Gonzalez, an analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said support for reparations peaked amid the protests over the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.
Now, it is waning, he added.
'Like diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), Critical Race Theory, anti-racism trainings, and other features of the collective hysteria, the call for reparations has begun to fall apart under intense opposition by the American people,' he told DailyMail.com.
Supporters of reparations say it's time for America to repay its black residents for the injustices of the historic Transatlantic slave trade, Jim Crow segregation and inequalities that persist to this day.
From there, it gets tricky.
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Do the Watoosi do the Wa-Watoosi.
52 years of welfare and trillions in debt is reparations enough.
“Help” like that is worse than Jim Crow and Slavery and the Middle Passage put together. But it’s expensive and looks compassionate.
Since it was the leaders of the Democrat party that supported slavery, why shouldn’t the current Democrat leaders be the ones paying reparations?
Corporations want reparations, because they’ll wind up with all the money in the end.
I support reparations for all living slave victims themselves.
That is all.
I wasn’t aware of that. Is it well received in light of the fact that most numbers bandied around are in the low millions per recipient? In the hearings before the CA legislature and San Francisco Board of Supervisors were …let’s say, quite exercised… on the moral imperative of receiving the full amount. Alas, now they have the sads
The community of people demanding the trillions of dollars does not have the character, discipline or understanding to do the right thing with that amount of money.
They are already figuring that out. It just hasn’t reached a rapid boil yet.
>> My ancestors were in the Pale of Settlement.
It is not uncommon today to hear among the “woke” crowd that Da Joos were really behind the slave trade. Just look at any discussion on Quora on the subject.
Part of the effort to find “intersectionality” with the Palis.
To be fair, there were Sephardic and Lucitanic (Portuguese) Jews involved in the slave trade with the West Indies and the Americas, in Rhode Island and Jamaica. But there were also Jews involved with the spice trade with India, textiles, finance, etc., and the Arabs were much more involved in slaving than anyone else, and still at it as late as 1968. Those in the Pale of Settlement, however, were nowhere near Africa.
The whole myth of Da Jooos and slavery was famously pushed hard by “Professor” Leonard Jeffries of City College, and a really dishonest book called The Secret Relationship Between Jooos! and Blacks. Where it started, I wouldn’t know.
I agree. I have said for years to give them reparations, and let the perps pay them. dim-0 party.
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