Posted on 06/09/2020 3:40:44 PM PDT by Stravinsky
As sustained national protests to end police brutality enter their third week, East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) is pushing for legislation to unpack and address the deep-rooted history of systemic racism in the United States and sustain the Black Lives Matter movement into the future.
Last week, Lee called for the creation of a “Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Commission.” The proposed commission would have a broad advisory goal, asking the United States to address a legacy of oppression beginning 400 years ago with slavery. It would then offer recommendations to catalyze progress in education, health care, employment, Social Security and veteran benefits, land ownership, financial assistance, food security, wages, voting rights, the justice system, and many other tenets of American life distorted by the lasting impacts of racism.
“The murder of George Floyd and the current COVID-19 crisis illustrate once again the painful and dangerous legacy that white supremacy has had in our country, and the desperate need to fully acknowledge and understand how our history of inequality continues today,” Lee said in an announcement last week.
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Yes, the outcomes of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa were not exactly peace and healing and brotherhood shared by everyone.
As a side note, there is growing white emigration from South Africa, as conditions there for the white minority worsen.
Are they gonna cover the $50 trillion of wealth redistribution from white to black over the last 50 years?
I don’t think the death of George Floyd had anything to do with racism. If that had been a big white guy resisting arrest he would have received the same treatment. Not saying that’s right but it’s not racism.
I recommend one word to her Commission...WORK!
“...to catalyze progress in education, health care, employment, Social Security...”
How about we don’t pay reparations at all.
They could start themselves by freeing the current slaves in Africa. I would applaud their actual efforts. https://qz.com/africa/1333946/global-slavery-index-africa-has-the-highest-rate-of-modern-day-slavery-in-the-world/
“Healing” = shakedown.
Give us more free stuff, or we will loot and burn again.
My final offer is this: Nothing!
Plus your land.
That time is on the Brits in that case.
“”400 years ago with slavery””
And how many years are they going to fall for the schtick of Al Sharpton? He didn’t miss a step after all the shenanigans he pulled in NYC years ago. Was never held accountable for any of it. The law tried but he thumbed his nose at it and got away with it.
I don’t get it. Everything is OUR (white man) fault...There are 50+ countries on the continent of Africa. How many of them are successful and how many are run by blacks? Is the white man keeping the black man down there?
We don’t hear successful black people (or even white) in the U. S., criticizing it what it really is - helping to keep the fable alive for what? I’m speaking of celebrities - actors/athletes etc. We do have voices like Mychal Massie/Thomas Sewell/Herman Cain/Walter Williams/Candace Owens but not enough blacks hear them.
Look at Mychal Massie’s latest - “I’m Sick Of Hearing Black Lives Matter.” We are not alone in our disgust for this display of - I’m not sure what to call it...
https://mychal-massie.com/im-sick-of-hearing-black-lives-matter/
Like the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa), but not as favorable to the whites.
And as a FReeper reminded us last week, in 2020 dollars value we have spent $27 TRILLION since 1964 on programs for black people.
We have offered a helping hand and our churches and synagogues have sponsored gatherings to listen to their concerns. Then we get more rejection and slurs against us.
Interesting you mention that; they are seeking the same “endangered species” protections as Indians (welfare for life, no questions asked).
I’ve pointed out on other threads that the US had legal slavery for 80 years - from 1783 (when the Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolution) until 1863 (the Emancipation Proclamation). It has been nearly 160 years - TWICE AS LONG - since slavery ended.
In 1,600 years, they’ll still blame slavery; this country will always have legalized abortion-on-demand because our elites (in both parties) realize that.
Awesome, the new and improved racism, now with more hate.
They’ve squandered more than half a century of de facto reparations.
But it was English slaves with English slavers brought into the Americas. We are the only nation in history that went to war to end slavery. If the black have a problem with it today, they should petition the Democrats. They were the slave holders.
“beginning 400 years ago”
Longer than that. Slavery was practiced by several Native American tribes. So was cannibalisms.
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