Posted on 06/04/2015 11:01:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The questions around reparations to descendants of slaves in America often trigger strident conversations. These discussions lay bare how race continues to affect the nation - despite the unfounded protestations by Americans that race holds little relevance to their lives. The "coded racial appeals" that Ian Haney Lopez has written in his informative book, "Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism & Wrecked The Middle Class," is must reading for all Americans and provides a foundation for how racism endures and evolves.
In this week's guest blog, Michael Holzman provides additional thought suggesting the moral debt America owes to African Americans. Some may read his piece and dismiss the argument as absurd. Many thoughtful pieces have been written on the topic. One salient essay was written by Ta-Nehisi Coates of "The Atlantic" for their 2014 cover story.
I concur that a discussion of reparations would open the nation to a deeper understanding of the vestiges of racism, which affect our institutions and for that matter the soul of America. It has been said that beauty is born of suffering and wisdom is the child of grief. The wisdom of our shared American culture emerges from the common struggles of the past, present and future.
The beauty of the nation lies in the diverse fabrics which when woven carefully create a splendid mosaic of cultures, races and beliefs. This mosaic can only be strengthened by a deeper understanding of how yesterday and today's structural racism hinder progress for us all tomorrow....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
Welfare and reverse discrimination are more reparations than they deserve.
It would be impossible for me to care any less about income disparity than I already do. This si total socialist bullcrap.
I old live with that one
Never.
We’ve given 20+ trillion already.
If they are still pissed, we’ll revoke their citizenship to this terrible, awful country, and send them one way back to utopia mother Africa.
Reparation money is being used to bring your illegal immigrant replacements into the voting pool. They are lower maintenance.
We will get it back it short order.
If any racism is to blame for income disparity, it is BLACK racism.
They beat on and make fun of any black who studies and does well because they are “acting white”. Those who waste their childhood education years are going to have to live with “income disparity”.
It is called PERSONAL CONSEQUENCES. You have to live with them.
So...what does this do for people like me who are multi-racial?
My great grandmother is on the 1900 Ohio State census as being a colored woman. Her son is hundreds of miles away in a boarding house in Massachusetts, listed as white on the 1900 census, and living with strangers. Dad was in the cavalry and only God knows where he was in 1900.
This is the real problem with reparations. Lots of people aren’t pure anything when it comes to race in America.
I would prefer stiffer sentences for wilding, and premeditated racial attacks, and race crimes involving groups.
Then Eric should pay them and be a hero.
I’m not. Ever.
The Seven Black Presidents Before Barack Obama
https://fookembug.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/the-seven-black-presidents-before-barack-obama/
Screw that. I want reparations from THEM for making me work 10 - 15 extra hours a week for 35 years to pay for THEIR subsidies when I couldn’t apply and get squat. What are they going to bill taxpayers for this BS? They can go to hell as far as I’m concerned.
you pay if you want....I'll get poor really fast so I'm not paying taxes for this crap...
this country has been crippled by a half century of official legal racial discrimination (affirmative action was supposed to be a short-term TEMPORARY remedy...not a permanent entitlement at the expense of America’s fundamental values and all the rest of us citizens)
get rid of racist discrimination in our legal system and then we can talk about more money or not, whatever
> If they will just finally STFU, I say give them all $1,000,000 per family.
We will get it back it short order.
Rome thought paying blackmail to the hordes would get them to leave them alone. Nope. They kept coming back for more each time demanding more. You can’t negotiate with terrorists or other like minded persons because the get greedier with every step forward.
The questions around reparations to descendants of slaves in America often trigger strident conversations. …Okay; since I have Irish blood in me, where are my reparations as the likely descendant of a slave, eh? Whoops. People who blather about “descendants of slaves” without even a thought for personal responsibility are just begging to become abject slaves themselves.
Almost everyone on Earth is descended from people who were slaves, serfs, indentured servants, some lord or chieftain’s peasant workers, servants or sharecroppers at some point in time.
I say we scrimp a bit and forego the bullet proof glass.
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