Posted on 06/27/2019 10:16:08 AM PDT by bitt
Forget about how we’d pay for reparations or who would be eligible. The point isn’t to make things right, but to re-make America.
What do we mean by reparations? Writing recently in the Washington Post, Sheryll Cashin, a law professor at Georgetown University, argues that “reparations should repair what white supremacy still breaks. Atoning for the legacy of chattel slavery is simply not enough.”
That is, reparations must be broad enough to encompass the many crimes and injustices perpetrated against black Americans throughout our history, from slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration. The effects of these injustices, says Cashin, are “direct and measurable” among slavery’s descendants: wage gaps, educational disparities, homeownership and property values, incarceration rates, health outcomes.
She is of course right. There is no question that black Americans have suffered greatly, not just from the memory of slavery but from its long legacy of rampant discrimination and racist policies.
It was this history that Ta-Nehisi Coates invoked in testimony last week before a House subcommittee considering a bill to create a commission to study reparations. Responding to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s comment that reparations are not a good idea because no one responsible for slavery is alive today, Coates reeled off a list of racial injustices that were perpetrated in McConnell’s lifetime.
Because McConnell was born in 1942, there is plenty of injustice to point to, and Coates, who has built a successful career on elegantly expressing outrage over such injustice, made the most of it:
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I presume you are talking about South Korea. 😮 Point well made in any case.
It’s not about justice or power it’s just give me money so that in another year when I’ve blown through it, I will want more.
It’s about revenge for their anger and hate the dems have caused, keeping them needy voters.
My ancestry is Scots-Irish and Italian. My maternal grandfather’s family was descended from the Hanks, Abraham Lincoln’s mother’s family. My father’s family line included at least 5 who died in Union blue during the War between the States. Both of my grandmothers immigrated to America after 1895. None ever lived below the Mason/Dixon line.
How can I be held liable for the enslavement and Jim Crow?
Harris has 2 parents who came from India & Jamaica. Neither country is considered black, and Jamaicans hate it when they get called black.
ALSO- Neither of Harris’ parents were USA citizens when she was born. She is NOT eligible to be President. She is NOT NATURAL BORN American. She is an Anchor Baby-—NOTHING else.
According to her wiki entry, Kamala was born to “a Tamil Indian mother and a Jamaican father”.
She has exactly ZERO US black ancestry.””””
NEITHER of her parents were USA citizens when she was born. Not until 5-6 years later.
Kamala is an Anchor Baby-—NOTHING MORE.
IMO, she is guilty of election fraud, accepting money & campaigning for a position she can NEVER hold. She is NOT NATURAL BORN AMERICAN.
My grandfather (deceased) was darker than those two and he was considered white— and that was in the days of segregation.
It is about power and about theft.
JoMa
What about my great grandma Mary Ann Burch Hargrove. 1/2 Cherokee. Didn’t live long enough to get the vote. And the Cherokee were treated as bad as the blacks, Trail of Tears. She had a very hard life. I think Cherokee should get reparations. I want mine in Temecula Ca on winery road. I will take a donkey and 40 acres of beautiful wineries and tasting rooms.
What if they passed a law and everyone just said. “no!”
{I’m being polite with my language for the benefit of the mods.)
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