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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If only there were some way to be sure.
California was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850.
Regards,
That was easy enough to verify.
Blacks clashing? No Way!! /s
Ever notice that the DemocRATs buy the black vote?
Every article I read is about how the DemocRATs “give” money freely under some trumped up story (fairytale). This and the mind-set of some people who want to blame others and believe they are “owed” something (you know the ones that we see on the news coming out of stores overloaded with “free stuff”) are the ones keeping the black vote hostage.
>Giggle<
As of 1827 I think...There were other Free States even earlier.
“...They’re dancing around it...”
Just like Pygmy cannibals dancing around a boiling vat of human flesh. This is what they do. This is who they are.
The White cracker took the cannibal out of the jungle and tried to teach them to read and write. But over and over again, you can see it is imposable to take the jungle out of the cannibal. /spit
Deep State ginning up yet another game of lets-you-and-him-fight.
Wish people would grow a brain and stop playing.
If this is not proof we are decaying quickly as a society I don’t know what is.
“Hispanics are actually becoming American”
They’re from LATIN America, so they’ve considered themselves AS AMERICAN indefinitely.
They proudly display the flag of their native country as they walk (or Uber) across the border.
Caucasian or Asian genes are automatic disqualifiers for reparations.
The genes are the reparations already paid.
It will make “Black Friday” shopping sprees look tame by comparison.
Like those who use “Big Pharma”?
“Corporate America” should stand up and grant stocks in proportion to melanin content. (With the caveat that they can’t be sold or traded for 18 years).
Win-Win!
There are times when I think that the U.S.A. can’t possibly get any more stupid than it already is.
And then I see an article like this.
This will not end well and then there will be demands for Round 2.
Then, Round 3.
Then, Round 4......
No problem....the state of New York will find a way to make Donald Trump liable for yet more fines.
“There will be fists thrown over this. Vegas odds could get interesting.”
It will be interesting to see what happens between the Dindu Nuffins and the Gibsmedats.
For our next country, we’re really going to have to be more circumspect in who we let in.
I don’t think there’s anyplace left to go in this world.
To me, that’s rather alarming. My backup plans for retirement were Australia or more likely, Canada.
COVID-19(84) pretty much blew everything right out of the water.
As I understand it, even in the Philippines, if you refused the va666 you couldn’t go further than your front yard (IIRC). During the lockdowns.
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