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Reparations Could Prevent the Next Ferguson
TIME ^ | August 29, 2014 | by Belinda Cooper

Posted on 08/29/2014 3:10:55 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The U.S. government and society need to recognize the direct connections between continuing racial disparities in this country and the wrongs that gave rise to them.

... One of the most important aspects of successful transitional justice, therefore, lies in illuminating not only the victims’ suffering, but the ways in which an entire society continues to bear the burdens of history. This helps elevate an important point: correcting injustice may require affirmative steps. The U.S. government and society need to recognize — and educate citizens on — the direct connections between continuing racial disparities in this country and the wrongs that gave rise to them, and to talk far more about the responsibilities we all share for repairing the damage. Perhaps Ferguson – which has revealed what can happen when we suppress these conversations – will finally motivate us to think about how to address the harms, whether through material reparations or otherwise. If we’re willing to start talking, we’ll find no shortage of role models for transitional justice throughout the world to help us take the next steps.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hustle; race; racebaiters; shakedown
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

REPATRIATE them back to Africa. That is the only way to avoid another Ferguson.


101 posted on 08/29/2014 5:08:06 PM PDT by anonsquared
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To: Viennacon

Reparations paid in blood and lives back in 1861-1865. 700,000 dead. One dead for every 5 slaves freed. Others gave arms, legs, eyes.


102 posted on 08/29/2014 5:11:43 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SOUL BROTHER! This house is not armed! (Signs people thought would protect them in the 1960s))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Reparations Could Prevent the Next Ferguson

Or cause it.

103 posted on 08/29/2014 5:18:44 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: himno hero
I tinks yurr mat is messed.

Nope. I'm talking absolute numbers. Your talking proportions.

We're both right. A disproportionate share of the black population is on welfare. But over 50% of the welfare recipients are white.

104 posted on 08/29/2014 5:25:19 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Saw the headline, and boom, my head exploded. Don’t even know how i am typing this


105 posted on 08/29/2014 5:32:58 PM PDT by onona (My mind = gallimaufry)
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To: okie01

They’re pretty slavish about enforcing it too...


106 posted on 08/29/2014 5:35:41 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m Jewish and from a Holocaust destroyed family (Lemberg/Lvov/Auschwitz/Belzec). I don’t get reparations from the Germans and never have tried to apply for them. That would have applied to my late grandmother and her brother who got to America earlier in the century, not me.

The Holocaust occurred during my lifetime. Slavery did not and none of my ancestors were even in America during that period of time. I bear no guilt for what was done back then.

My job is to see that racial discrimination, among other forms of discrimination, is not institutionalized. If somebody doesn’t like someone for any variety of reasons, so be it. I can’t change their minds, if they have any.

White guilt, as exemplified by Cooper, is like a pair of handcuffs on the mind. You are never freed of them and you’ll need to continually pay and pay and pay for something you didn’t do.

Screw that. If Cooper wants to pony-up her money and give it to Al the Charlatan Sharpton, Jesse the Ambulance Adulterer Jackson, and Eric “Mr. Reparations I Hate White People Holder”, let her do so.

In Yiddish we have a word for guilt-ridden Jewish fools like her - SCHMUCK! Look it up in the dictionary. You’ll probably find her Cooper’s photo attached to its’ definition.


107 posted on 08/29/2014 5:47:25 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Belinda Cooper is too f**king stupid to be an idiot.


108 posted on 08/29/2014 5:56:49 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Reparations will initiate a tsunami of them parasitic bastards assuming room temperature.


109 posted on 08/29/2014 7:09:40 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: Thom Pain

Bingo! But let’s expand it to include any person residing within the borders of United States and its territories and receiving income from the US government is not allowed to vote.


110 posted on 08/29/2014 7:19:56 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: Jim Robinson

If “reparations” worked, East St Louis would be as prosperous and low crime as Geneva Switzerland.


111 posted on 08/29/2014 7:32:07 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

High pressure water cannons could prevent the next Ferguson.


112 posted on 08/29/2014 10:01:47 PM PDT by Impy (Think for yourself)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hoorah. Another liberal with another “justice.”

WHAT DO WE WANT?

TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE!

WHEN DO WE WANT IT?

NOW?


113 posted on 08/29/2014 10:24:53 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Viennacon

Blacks would not be happy with reparations. The BS will sill go on.


114 posted on 08/29/2014 10:31:18 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Insanity knows no bounds.


115 posted on 08/29/2014 10:37:11 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

extortion


116 posted on 08/30/2014 1:18:39 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a bunch of morons. Can’t assimilate one simple FACT, i.e. Michael Brown was a thug.


117 posted on 08/30/2014 1:20:27 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Have they considered using some type of GMO tech for the affirmative remediation?


118 posted on 08/30/2014 1:45:37 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Plus rims.


119 posted on 08/30/2014 1:46:51 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We have a welfare state that they primarily benefit from. Reparations have been paid many times over.


120 posted on 08/30/2014 3:38:20 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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