Small bills, please.
No? Then no reparations for anyone. Fair is fair, Koffi...
Change the R in REPARATIONS to an S (SEPARATIONS) and I'm all for it. Yes Sir, 100% for it. Count me in brother. Way to go. Start now. Get moving....
Others would like to forget or feign disbelief as to the intensity, continuity and depth of the brutality imposed on my forefathers and mothers. And which extends to us today.
It does not continue today. No blacks are slaves today. No blacks are tied to posts and flogged today. No blacks pick cotton 18 hours a day only to get up and do it again tomorrow for no pay. This statement is a lie.
Yet, it is also true that their white skin gives them advantage over the nation's darker-skinned citizens,
More hogwash. White skin admits nobody to any country clubs. In fact, if you look at the race making the most GAINS in the last few decades, you'll see blacks far ahead. And generally at the expense of whites, another factor to consider in any claim for "reparations."
White privilege simply assures two similarly situated people — one white, one black — that the white person will be given preferential treatment
Bovine flatulence! "White privilege" is a term coined by the race-baiters, to describe a fictitious, racist concept that all whites have doors open to them that blacks don't. Show me one.
The race whores will do anything they can to advance this cause, because it is a direct transfer of money (read "power") into their hands. Whitey ain't gonna pay the bucks directly to blacks; someone is going to have to manage that windfall. And you can guess who'll step up to that challenge. Calling their Most Reverend Majesties Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson!
When are you going to get off the dole???
When will you stop blaming everyone else for whatever status in life you find yourself???
When will you grow up??
redrock
In a social democracy, it's only about who's able to vote themselves largesse. Logic and economics are out the window.
Does that mean that Black opposition to slavery is predictable but unjustified?
After all that has happened both on the black and white sides .....Blacks are still slaves in their own minds. and ....Whites[ ALL RACES THROUGH REPERATIONS ] will never be slave owners and yet will still get the bill and blame
Someone told me once there is no such thing as reverse racism i think they were either drunk or stupid maybe both !
Kwame has not proved the necessity of anything. Most blacks thrive and prosper today, as do most whites, orientals, hispanics, etc. What necessity?
(2) look closely at today's conditions that cause continuation of these deplorable circumstances;
The 'delorable circumstance' that Kwame is not getting any guilt money yet? Slavery? (Ended 1865) Jim Crow? (Faded out sometime in the late 60's) For the ambitious, black skin is a positive advantage today in America!
(3) develop a plan that would set up endowments, scholarships and other incentives for increased positive black involvement in American life;
We already have all of these today!
(4) enact laws that are effective and enforceable that would eliminate all acts of discrimination.
No law can possibly eliminate 'all forms' of discrimination, but the laws we have comprise the best legal protection against racial discrimination that has ever existed anywhere, anytime. And the proof of that is the lack of black immigration to Africa or other parts of the world, and the continuing flow of immigrants from all parts of the third world to our shores.
These are just a few ideas for a beginning toward full reparations.
He says 'full reparations', but stated earlier that no amount of money could possibly make up for all the brutality, etc. So what he means is 'unending payments', because the next generation and the next after that will demand their 'fair share' too. There is simply no legal or historical precedent for this sort of guilt claim by one racial group on another. Besides, any money for reparations would be paid by ALL Americans -- white, black, hispanic, recent immigrants, etc. Their case will fall apart in court, if it ever gets that far.