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.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
TIME will only be happy if whites endure 300 years of slavery
B/S.
Who cares if there is another Ferguson — or another 100?
Criminality should NEVER be rewarded. You’ll only get more.
I don't think so.
I thought that the last fifty years of paying welfare counted as reparations...
“transitional justice”
...uh oh. That’s a new one. Look for that phrase on a bumper sticker soon.
Belinda Cooper is one of those over-educated but not very smart busybodies who should first heal themselves before pretending to know how to heal everybody else.
They said that about Great Society. They said it about racial quotas. It’s time to deport the criminal sociopaths to a remote penal colony in Alaska on one of the Aleutian Islands, where they can work for their keep or starve.
We already have. Ever since 1913.
Many leftists feel just like Belinda, I consider extortion illegal unlike them.
We did.
It’s estimated the Arab Moslems enslaved 1.5 million people for some 400 years.
Blacks don’t own the franchise on being screwed over.
Reparations was the blood of all those who died in the Civil War
trillions pissed away at them since the 1960s. for nothing except gimme more.
pay us for’the 500,000+ war’dead to free’you.
choice: stay here, be civil, get’along, work like everyone else; one way ticket back to mother africa and citizenship canceled.
Give and it shall be given unto you. Continually demand that more be given you and you will never have enough. Never.
If people want tp prosper, they need to produce, create, contribute. Works for every color, creed and race
“Transitional justice”. Throw enough abstractions together and you have a brand new field of study.
The majority of those rioting already live free off the taxpayers anyway.
Time for a national divorce.
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