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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: skeeter

“Will they ever leave the dole.

I don’t think so. “

Watch how suddenly they start looking for work when the dole leaves them.


61 posted on 08/29/2014 3:41:53 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Paying reparations will only get you more Fergusons....


62 posted on 08/29/2014 3:42:26 PM PDT by Popman (Jesus Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: ozzymandus

All I have to say is “get to work, you slacking losers”. Give me “reparations” for having to put-up-with your ongoing and ceaseless whining and other BS.


63 posted on 08/29/2014 3:44:34 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

New headline for an upcoming TIME story:

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64 posted on 08/29/2014 3:44:42 PM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

"Hey - Let's burn down our neighborhood to teach Whitey a lesson!"


65 posted on 08/29/2014 3:47:32 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Why democrat voters are like sperm: Only 1 in a million work.)
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To: Billthedrill

“Transitional justice”. Throw enough abstractions together and you have a brand new field of study.”

Transitional is such a great camouflage word. It implies movement. Here in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts some prog decided to “partner” that word with “Assistance” as in the Department of Transitional Assistance, AKA the Welfare Department.

Nobody seems to be transitioning off of the roles however. So I wonder how “moving justice” would work?


66 posted on 08/29/2014 3:47:42 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I demand reparations for the damn Yankee Army and their negro camp followers looting and burning our farm in Mississippi in 1864 . The burned our homeplace and all the out buildings including the barn & chicken coops . They stole all our fowl and livestock and took apart and stole our fences . They even pulled the potatoes out of the ground and drank all the whiskey . Who is going to pay me for those losses ,which we shall never forget ?


67 posted on 08/29/2014 3:48:09 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

talk about having ones head up their back side...have of the slaves in the south were owned by blacks. why don’t we just send all of the back that don’t want to be Americans


68 posted on 08/29/2014 3:48:23 PM PDT by jrd
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Pay money so black people won't burn their own towns down?

Eh, nawwwwww. I'll pass.

69 posted on 08/29/2014 3:49:24 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: okie01

I tinks yurr mat is messed.

Blacks are what 18% of the gross population? What percent of them are on benefits. Perhapths compare that relationship.

Its like murder stats and other crime stats.

or the resulting disproportionate representation of the black community in the penal system.


70 posted on 08/29/2014 3:50:24 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Fix the problem with transitional justice actions that seek not only to punish, but to encourage a shared historical understanding, begin to repair the damage done, and ensure that it can’t happen again . . . the direct connections between continuing racial disparities in this country and the wrongs that gave rise to them . . . . Sounds like Oprah "There are still generations of older people who were born and breed and marinated in that prejudice and racism and they just have to die" Winfrey.

Remember. Those suffering beatings as a result of the reaction to the lies spread by the MSM employees, academia, and the race-grievance industry should seriously consider civil lawsuits.

As retaliatory assaults accumulate because of MSM, academia, and race-grievance industry lies keep in mind that


71 posted on 08/29/2014 3:50:56 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I want a pony for my reparations. And pony food stamps too, because ponies are so expensive to feed.


72 posted on 08/29/2014 3:52:33 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Iron Munro

America already gave them their own country. Liberia.

Home for the disenfranchised & repatriated blacks.

And look what they did to their little piece of heaven.....

Did Obama graduate from there?


73 posted on 08/29/2014 3:53:27 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I agree. Every black person or family should be given one hundred grand and plane tickets back to the African country of their choice. With the proviso of no possible return to the U.S. under penalty of death. It would take us many decades to pay that off, but the end result would be well worth it. We’ll start with this ditz of a writer.


74 posted on 08/29/2014 3:53:43 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You can shower the black underclass with trillions of dollars in “reparations,” but nothing will really change except that black hoodlums will be doing their drive-by shootings from Maseratis and getting drunk on Johnny Walker Blue Label instead of Night Train.

The black underclass can only emerge from the cycle of poverty and crime by developing strong moral codes, a strong work ethic and a desire for learning and self-improvement combined with a rejection of Victicrats—to use a term coined by Larry Elder—such as Belinda Cooper.


75 posted on 08/29/2014 3:56:28 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: txrefugee

It isn’t reparations they want. It’s repatriations! Give them each 50k and send them to any country they want to go, providing they give up citizenship.


76 posted on 08/29/2014 3:57:37 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Manchuria Called. They want their Candidate Back!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This would be the point that everyone stops paying income taxes.


77 posted on 08/29/2014 3:58:35 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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To: Secret Agent Man
choice: stay here, be civil, get along, work like everyone else


78 posted on 08/29/2014 3:59:39 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Why democrat voters are like sperm: Only 1 in a million work.)
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To: PATRIOT1876
"I thought that the last fifty years of paying welfare counted as reparations...

I fully agree, and it's time we pass a Constitutional amendment to deny voting rights to anyone who has accepted entitlements in the prior 5 years.

79 posted on 08/29/2014 4:01:21 PM PDT by Thom Pain (If you like your country you can keep it. Period.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Nice little town you got there bro, be a shame if sumpin happen to it.

Here it is.

Want "reparations"? Fine. Take the check and the one-way ticket to the African Nation of your choice.

Don't come back.

Choose wisely, people are getting sick in some of them.

80 posted on 08/29/2014 4:01:40 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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