Posted on 07/28/2016 4:35:10 AM PDT by simpson96
When local artist Natasha Marin spoke with Seattle Weekly last week about Reparations.me, her then-7-day-old website and Facebook page, she was clearly fraying around the edgesunderfed, overworked, and ragged as hell.
Ive had about 12 hours of sleep since Friday, she said over the phone with a hoarse laugh, as a second phone buzzed and buzzed in the background. She responded to one last frantic message and attempted to close the 99 windows I have open in order to pull together her thoughts. I maybe have eaten, like, one real meal. Im at that point of exhaustion now, if I see two bunnies kissing each other, Ill just start crying. Im just that tired.
Reparations.me has clearly struck a nerve, one that is pulsing hard right now, online and on the streets: White people should act, and many desperately want to act, in the fight against systemic racism.
The basic concept of Marins site is this: White people have a responsibility to do something to help dismantle white supremacy and white privilege, and people of color are experiencing trauma and stress related to white supremacy and white privilege. So Marin created a simple platform through which white people can offer, and people of color can request, goods or serviceseverything from groceries to funds for emergency surgery to chakra cleanses. In barely a week and a half, hundreds of people have offered, requested, or fulfilled all that and far more; thousands of dollars have been donated, including to the Troll Fund, which Marin created so that for every racist message the site receives, one dollar will go directly to someone requesting financial assistance. (Donors have been dubbed Troll-Slayers, and, as the site boasts, Hate can buy groceries now.)
(Excerpt) Read more at seattleweekly.com ...
I’ve got no problem with this. All of us should claim that, at least for today, that we feel ‘black’ and ask for our share.
If ‘feeling’ that one is female (or male) is sufficient to change your gender, then ‘feeling’ black should be sufficient to qualify as being black.
You owe me a new monitor.
for later
Totally conflicted person. Her black dna totally hates her white dna and it’s all poisoned her brain! Insane leftist.
Um...no.
I’m going to self-identify as ‘black’, and ask for money on that site. /sarc
KMWA
It’s been said that as a whole demographic group, the last time black people were a boon to America and not a burden was when they were enslaved, which is a horrible thing to say because their are many dark-hued individuals who are good and hardworking people, but ultimately the above statement is an indictment not on white culture and their beliefs but black culture and their behavior.
Poor thing! blaming Whitey for all your self-inflicted pathologies. Get a life, go to work at a real job, don’t break the law, don’t go around making babies, stop whining, and STFU.
In my neck of the South, that girl be called a “ginger”. But lots of black folks around here have green or hazel eyes, too.
Must be there was a whitey in the woodpile somewheres.
;^)
Slavery is the ultimate theft of individual liberty and individual labor, and an affront to civilized people. That slavery existed in a land founded on the concept of human liberty was a blood crime, that was paid in blood during the Civil War.
It was further paid by belated but fortunately relatively non-violent end of state enforced discrimination (a separate crime that is still depressingly common across the globe).
No individual legally held as a slave is still alive to receive reparations (if they were, it would be right and proper to pay them)
No individual who legally held people as slaves is still alive to pay those reparations. (if they were, they would have a moral obligation to repay slaves for their stolen labor and liberty)
With no individual alive to pay or receive reparations, why are we having this discussion?
She looks 25% black.
Indeed! If there are reparations I want three shares.
My great great grandfather lost his life. My great grandfather lost his leg and his brother was killed ( my great uncle). All wore the blue uniform.
“The basic concept of Marins site is this: White people have a responsibility to do something to help dismantle white supremacy and white privilege, and people of color are experiencing trauma and stress related to white supremacy and white privilege.”
I’ll buy a one way plane ticket for someone to go “home” to Africa. They hate America so much they can just become African.
White people that march with BLM should have a place to spend their money. Funding blacks will help BLM, and more than likely lead to more black-on-black killins.
One can pick up on the personality type with all her comments about how exhausted and busy she is, so busy she can’t eat, can’t sleep... we know this type of drama queen.
The US taxpayer has been paying “reparations” right along since about 1965 through various transfers, direct funds, busing/de-segregation of school-children, preferred employment under the guise of “equal opportunity”, and on and on. If this group has not been made whole yet, whose damn fault is that?
They should check her family history to see if her ancestors owned slaves.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.