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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There are many Hispanics for Trump who are against open borders and the woke policies by the Democratic Party. They are against illegal immigration. It’s important to distinguish the legal immigrants who happen to be Hispanic from the illegals.
History repeats
Götz Aly
Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive: by engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost unimaginable scale―and by channeling the proceeds into generous social programs―Hitler literally “bought” his people’s consent.
So do not expect improved behavior.
GIVE IT TO THE MEXICANS.!!
“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.”
I don’t think that narrative, though true, will carry the day among the shake-down artists.
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/shermans-field-order-no-15
Ah’m aware...the land value would be debatable now even though Sherman wanted to confiscate all of the Southern coastline for the freed slaves. They would not have created the same value that is there now; it would be Haiti Nord. Probably most of it would have been sold to developers over the last century anyway and the original owners/families dispersed inland...where they are today.
“The only people that deserve reparations are living former slaves.”
From living former slave owners.
New York was a free state before the Civil War.
This doesn’t negate the fact that slavery in NY hasn’t existed for several lifetimes. They’re not getting any money.
If reparations are ever handed out, recipients should have to prove they have no white American ancestors...since whites are the evil oppressors and they inherit their guilt.
Do I get reparations for my great-great-grandfather dying to free them? Isn’t being set free and being granted citizenship reparations enough?
Put the money into one account, and tell the black new yorkers that the money will be divided up between all those who qualify. The problem will solve itself.
The only people who should get slavery reparations are people who were actually enslaved and the only people who should pay reparations are those who owned the slaves.
So, an actual African who became a citizen five years ago will be paying slavery reparations to a black person who was never a slave.
Also, the reparations recipients must forfeit all current and future government welfare benefits, and pay taxes on all receipts.
"In California, it has gone out of committee to approve slave reparations to be paid to people who were never slaves by people who never owned slaves in a state that never had slaves. That's like paying child support for a child you never had to a woman you never f*cked!"
“And if it wasn’t for slavery, they would have been trapped in a turd world shithole somewhere in Africa.”
“Thank God my Granddaddy got on that boat” - Cassius Clay.
C'mon people. Just apply a "one-year residency" clause to it.
Then sit back and watch the "Great New Yawk Gold Rush".
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