Posted on 03/10/2024 8:42:43 PM PDT by Libloather
A New York commission that will recommend whether to give reparations for slavery and discrimination to black residents hasn’t even met yet - but it’s already sparked a rift among black New Yorkers over who should be eligible for payouts.
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Bertha Lewis, head of the Brooklyn-based Black Institute, told The Post that reparations must be considered for all black residents, because they have suffered from decades of systemic racism resulting from slavery - even if they are not direct descendants of slaves.
“That’s a false narrative,” Lewis said. “I don’t give a f**k what California did.”
“You can’t just say, `only descendants of slaves from the South.’ Black people faced the effects of slavery - discrimination - simply because they’re black.”
She said in many cases it will be extremely hard to document proof of ties to slavery given the scant records at the time.
“If you’re going to talk about reparations, you have to talk about discrimination that has gone on a long time against black people in the white American system,” Lewis said.
But others disagreed, saying any black people who moved to the US for better opportunities have no right to reparations for slavery in this country.
“It was our choice to come here,” said Mona Davids, a black South African who moved to New York as a child.
“The only beneficiaries of reparations should be descendants of chattel slavery — not African immigrants or Afro-Caribbean descendants.”
She added: “Descendants of slaves didn’t have a choice. White people benefited from slavery.”
Davids, who publishes “Little Africa News,” which serves that African community in the US, said reparations advocates should also go after the African countries, where rulers rounded and sold people to slave traders.
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Uh, none of the above!
Blacks still live their tribal African ways. Throw in the invading illegal aliens getting the welfare blacks are expecting and it is popcorn time.
If reparations are paid out, it will be one of the largest
observable destructions of money in U. S. History.
$2 million given to 50,000 people, we’ll probably see 99.5%
of them dead broke in 36 months.
“Yeah” yell the illegal alien Somalis who came through our Southern border this weekend, “Dont forget us. We’re blacker than you are. We should get a bigger slice.”
#MeToo
That is correct.
You are correct.
Indeed. Here in CA and in San Francisco.
I hate to tell these would-be grifters that there’s no actual payday at the end of this charade
Actually several websites discuss forty acres and a mule (aside from it being Spike Lee’s film corporation).
“The value of 40 acres and a mule today is a matter of debate, but some estimates put it at over $6 trillion. This is based on the assumption that the land would be worth the same as it was in 1865, adjusted for inflation and that the mule would be worth the same as a modern tractor.”
When the real program in the 1800s was offered they didn’t even give the mule but some Union soldiers gave away mules anyway after the government didn’t follow through.
The argument is stupid but as long as we're on the subject, both states were free. CA didn't even join the Union until 1860.
Then those of us whites whose ancestors came over AFTER slavery had been abolished should be free from responsibility of paying reparations.
And blacks whose ancestors OWNED slaved need to pay out, too.
I suppose in downtown NY or LA you might pay out that kind of money for 40 acres, but there are lots of other places in the US where 40 acres can go for a lot less.
Rats hate independent people. They want pets - people that are dependent on them to fill their bowls and to give them other people's money.
Nobody’s getting any money. This is theater. Enjoy the show
Which is why the Democrats are importing millions of new voters. Hispanics are actually becoming American. And they’re getting on the Trump train. Can’t have that. So you see migrants coming in from other places such as China and Africa.
How many white New Yorkers died in the Civil War?
I think California joined in 1850.
New virus: BS-24.
... Then benefits flowing from LBJ’s great new society would have to be factored in for the financial advantage that wasn’t given to whitey.
And if it wasn’t for slavery, they would have been trapped in a turd world shithole somewhere in Africa.
They should be thankful for the opportunity to come and stay in the land of milk, honey, progress and opportunity.
For the blacks brothers, many ended up going down the Islamic trail, never to make it to the other side.
Fists?
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