Posted on 02/28/2015 1:23:11 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Conversations about reparations are not about money but about people and about the way that people are seen and valued in our society. These are difficult conversations, and we have found that what is most challenging about the idea of reparations today is the notion that America still owes a debt to black people..
We have spent the past eight months wrestling with the question about whether reparations — as Ta-Nehisi Coates so eloquently argued — could ameliorate inequality for black people in America. We believe that the answer to this question is connected to how well one can understand the structures, practices and norms that created the intentional and unintentional persistent pattern of inequality.
Because racism was institutionalized in the fabric of American society, it must be fought on multiple fronts — education, housing, employment, health, the criminal system and the criminalization of the black male body — and at various levels through community organizing, legislation, political representation, resource allocation and judicial advocacy. Reparations granted at the individual level would have little to no impact on the removal of institutional and structural barriers to make our society more just and free for black people. Reparations also cannot mandate changes in the norms of society that privilege certain groups in professional and recreational communities, or enforce a change in the biases and prejudicial views of others. They also cannot erase the double consciousness many black people juggle in a society that has yet to realize the provision of equal access to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" for all....
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Why don’t these bums, slackers, hobos and losers shut up and get to work????? Their reparation was that they were not kicked out to Liberia.
700,000 dead white boys between 1861-1865. Tens of thousands of others gave arms and legs and eyes to decide if Negroes would be free or slave.
Get over it!
Nothing we give them will ever be enough. Their self-proclaimed leaders will always want more. The solution is to say "Screw it, we're done, stand or fall by your own talents and abilities".
I will respond to all further talk of "reparations" with derisive laughter.
And they’d Still be left without a lick of sense.
One of Alabama’s great songs...
Hey racist ghettoRATs!
WHITE people freed the slaves!
They were called "Republicans".
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