Posted on 02/20/2021 4:19:55 AM PST by MtnClimber
Here comes the demand for “rest reparations,” after "hundreds of years of sleep deprivation" that was due to systemic racism. They're serious, too.
Teen Vogue magazine recently published an article by two writers who are calling for “rest reparations” in addition to the regular, old, garden-variety reparations for African Americans, which advocates have been advocating for years. Navild Acosta and Fannie Sosa contend that, on average, Black lives are shorter than white ones because Black people experience “generational fatigue” due solely to the fact that they are, in fact, Black.
The two allege that “the American dream is a sleepless one” for Black folks, and claim to have had an epiphany when they realized the reason they were always tired was because they were impacted by "hundreds of years of sleep deprivation" that was due to systemic racism. Their article, titled "Black Power Naps is Addressing Systemic Racism in Sleep," reveals the Black Power Naps initiative, which purports to be an "artistic initiative with components including physical installations, zines, an opera, and more." Huh?
Acosta told the magazine that black people and people of color inherited sleep deprivation through years of slavery and control, saying, “We're dealing with an inheritance of sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation was a ... deliberate tactic of slave owners to basically make the mind feeble. That same tactic has only evolved." Huh?
Sosa insisted that generations of slavery have made it imperative for Black people and people of color to rest as much as they can in the following generations. I’ve read that it isn’t really possible for one person to “catch up on sleep” in his or her own lifetime, so I seriously doubt one could “catch up on sleep” that one’s great-great-great-great grandfather was deprived of.
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What is sad is that wokesters will buy into this.
They certainly are all about science.
There is a huge gulf between educated Africans and "Afro-Americans". Educated Africans have a work ethic and are not expecting free stuff. I think "sleep deprivation" for ghetto dwellers would be the least of their worries. The man my boss spoke of comes from five generations of sleepers and layabouts.
Buy stock in pillow companies!
I think the first thing I learned about biology was that it is not possible to inherit an acquired characteristic.
So, some people will get 2 hours off from work every day to catch up on their ancestors’ sleep - even if their ancestors were never slaves. So, Whitey will have to work 2 extra hours to make up for the lost productivity.
That’s what the insane left calls “equitable.”
Biology, like Mathematics, is racist.
That is a real problem that used to be discussed openly and honestly; many black Americans (especially in cities) had no role models because they didn’t know anyone who worked - or was educated in any meaningful way.
Just plain ol laziness.
More excuses to justify how lazy some people are.
Africans were enslaved because they were inferior to those that made them slaves. Inferiority was the result of inequality.
Being unequal, the enslaved were just not capable of adequately defending themselves.
Sleep reparations is a stupid concept borne of eliminating inherent inequality that led to enslavement
The Bible teaches that sloth is one of the deadly sins.
Maybe the current descendants of coal miners, textile and factory workers and other working class people who worked long and hard hours, lived in poverty and whose time and labor were badly exploited before labor laws were enacted to protect them need to catch up on their ancestors’ sleep too.
Well? Won’t this same logic work for me in a few years? I am suffering from ‘systemic hatred’ being administered by the democrat party! Where is my lawyer???
Heh. Black Sleep - black sheep - counting sheep.
Just saw a youtube of “Larry, Daryl and Daryl” on the Bob Newhart show:
“Hi! I’m Larry, and this is my brother Daryl and my other brother Daryl. Please excuse our tardiness. Daryl couldn’t get to sleep last night and had to count sheep.
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It took us awhile to find which field he was at.”
Currently, I have two sets of tenants. A black mother in her 50s with a “disabled” thirty something son. He is on SSI and I believe she is receiving “freedom care” payments to be his guardian. Every time we go over there, even well past noon, they are both in robes, lounging in the bedroom or smoking cigs.
My upstairs tenant is a white woman in her 70s still working at walmart even when being in a boot cast.
I used to work for subsidizing housing and I can tell you this is not anecdotal.
I think the problem is they black people just don’t believe in a reasonable bed time. You always here about blacks getting killed at 3 or 4 in the morning. Only reason to be awake at that hour is your a paramedic, a fireman, a policemen or a criminal. Go to bed at 11 and not only would they live longer lives, but get more sleep!
Now that "science" can be anything the Biden admin says it is, this makes perfect sense.
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