Posted on 01/09/2017 7:43:11 PM PST by blam
Submitted by Joseph Jankowski via PlanetFreeWill.com
Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson is proposing the idea that white people should have an ‘Individual Reparations Account’ to make donations to black institutions and individuals.
The idea is part of his forthcoming book, “Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America.”
Dyson made the argument during an interview with Ana Marie Cox in the January 8 edition of the New York Times Magazine.
From the interview:
At the end of your sermon, you do a “benediction” section, in which you talk about making reparations on the local and individual level: donating to groups like the United Negro College Fund or a scholarship program, but also, to cite your example from the book, paying “the black person who cuts your grass double what you might ordinarily pay.” That gave me pause!
Good! I used to say in church, “If the sermon ain’t making you a little bit uncomfortable, it ain’t effective.” Look, if it doesn’t cost you anything, you’re not really engaging in change; you’re engaging in convenience. You’re engaged in the overflow. I’m asking you to do stuff you wouldn’t ordinarily do. I’m asking you to think more seriously and strategically about why you possess what you possess.
I agree with reparations, but maybe this is my white privilege speaking: I can’t imagine actually doing that.
That is what I meant by an I.R.A.: an individual reparations account. You ain’t got to ask the government, you don’t have to ask your local politician — this is what you, an individual, conscientious, “woke” citizen can do.
But charity can’t be the end of it, right? The Koch brothers gave the United Negro College Fund $25 million, but I doubt you would consider them “woke.”
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Words escape me....I cannot put down on FR what’s in my mind or I’ll be banned.
Let’s just say, “someone needs to take out the trash”....and leave it at that.
I wonder if this doofus professor has lineage that has done the same?
I do, Mikey. I use it to populate my ammo locker.
I already have one. It’s in a box labeled 7.62 FMJ.
I have a G.F.Y. account.
On the bright side dude, trees won’t be shedding any tears of fear over the amount of paper the douchebags book will consume...
Hollywood celebrities to donate millions each
Hussein owes me $2,500/yr of 0don’tCare savings I’m missing.
Minorities to leave victim hood forever.
So, no. I won't be paying anyone reparations. Ever.
It’s all about the greenbacks. Gimme gimme gimme. Have some self respect people and start earning your way.
Dear Professor of Nitwittery,
I never owned any slaves. My parents never owned any slaves. Neither my grandparents nor my great grandparents owned slaves. As far as my genealogy can reveal, my ancestors were among the overwhelming majority of people who didn’t own slaves, so go practice your panhandling elsewhere.
Sincerely,
AAC
How far my Alma Mater declined in these past 40 years.
Hoya Saxa
I never owned any slaves and neither did any of my ancestors. They were never slaves and they never picked any cotton. End of discussion.
Hey A-hole Perfesser! You're suckin up all the reparations money. Give it up, for your peeps.
I'll feel a whole lot better once this program is up and running.
Just can't wait for my first "reparation recipient" to stop by for a chat.
If this is what passes for great intellectual activity in the black academic community, things are bad and will only be getting worse.
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