Posted on 07/01/2014 2:06:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
'Reparations are long overdue'
Ed Dorn, 69, dates back to the Class of ’64. He is a member of the last generation of African Americans to have completed their entire primary and secondary education in segregated schools.
He graduated from his Houston high school just before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave him and the U.S. an entirely new future.
So when he headed to the University of Texas it was his first experience of integration. Blacks may have numbered only about 300 in a student body of 25,000 whites, but that didn’t matter. A new world beckoned.
“I didn’t experience concrete changes,” Dorn recalled in an interview. “What I experienced was more a kind of psychological change. The civil rights act settled one huge ambiguity and that had to do with the status of African Americans in the U.S. For the first time the federal government said, yes, African Americans are to be considered full-fledged citizens of the United States.”
Until that moment, he had lived inside a black community whose limits were dictated by an array of so-called Jim Crow laws that, since the Civil War, racist state and local governments had imposed with viselike effects.
“You grew up in an environment where things just happened as a matter of course,” he said. “These are the schools you are supposed to attend and, to a lesser extent, these are the ambitions you are expected to have. These are the things you can do. You might expect to go to college but certain professions may be closed off to you.”(continued)
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I may be bad, but every time I hear of reparations, I think of the movie “Cat Ballou” where Kid Shelleen almost drank himself to death.
“You could have killed him giving him fifty dollars cash at one time!”
The decedents of those who chose to remain have no claim to reparations. Besides, reparations won't fix what their complaint is - that their ancestors were forced to come here as slaves. Only returning to Africa will right that wrong.
Don't even bother to try.
Since the US is still paying a couple of Civil War pensions to children of Union soldiers, I suspect there might be a couple who would qualify for your second category.
Assuming a man born into slavery in 1865 fathered a child at the age of 70, that child would be 79 years old this year.
Um, don't the Canucks have their own little history with their indigenous people? Seems to me they should concentrate on their own house instead of telling others how to keep theirs.
I was recently talking with a man who has spent his professional life in public education. He worked tirelessly for Blacks’ civil rights. He was talking about how the system has failed. I asked him “What is the solution?”
Without hesitating he said “Segregation.” Lots of black educators he knows say the same thing.
The Canadians also interred the Japanese in WWII under conditions far more punitive and primitive than prevailed in the US. Most Canadians, of course, aren’t too keen on talking about it, as they much prefer clucking over US misdeeds, real and imagined.
I have simplified it even more: Kiss my lily white non slave owning azz.
Let the bastards collect it from themselves; it is far more likely that their ancestors bought, sold, or owned slaves than mine, since mine were poor Welsh who came over here after the Civil War. There are tens of millions more like me, who are white but have no descendant that have ever owned slaves, do these idiots think all the white people came over on the Mayflower?
Brown v. Board of Education decision was issued in 1954. Article (what I read of it, anyway) doesn’t make sense.
Nothing will ever be enough, not the great society money, not the stimulus, not the civil war dead, not Liberia, not affirmative action and set-asides... nothing.
Between the northern white dead from 1861-1865 and the entitlements paid out since the 60s there is no debt remaining.
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