The Case for Reparations Vol. Race Forum

[tomdiginson]

Aren't you supposed to be in medical school, Anton?  I doubt you got there through anti-intellectualism.  

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[Betonblck]

You're welcome Meth. You made some very great points and I also wish more people would just read it. I consider myself to be up on much of our history and I learned some things reading the article.

I post the information in the article and get responses such as TL;DR, followed by "slavery ended 150 yrs ago". It's one thing to be ignorant because you don't know, it's another to be willfully ignorant because you choose to be ignorant.

When you think about how complicated our tax system is, yet many people still submit their taxes on time annually, you can't say a one time calculation and administration of reparations is too difficult to calculate or administer.

 

[airedweezy]

I wonder if to some point dave chapelles reparation skit would be true.

 

[redman]

I wonder if to some point dave chapelles reparation skit would be true.

If you mean some will blow their money of meaningless stuff? Yes, yes they will but it is their liberty to do so.

 

[bandit country]

Get in line.

The federal government pledged over $100 billion in aid following Hurricane Katrina.  We didn't bar it on the grounds that "Katrina wasn't our fault" or that "it's possible that a rich person or someone from Wisconsin could benefit from it."  

Not to thread jack, but plenty of people objected to this specifically and State intervention generally as far as natural disasters are concerned.

 

[cedric ceballos]

I got no issue with it. Figuring out who gets what and who would be eligible for what is possible to do.

Would people who weren't around when certain things still existed benifit? Yes but that's no real biggie to me.

People were treated unfairly and terribly over stuff they had no contol over. If their grandkids and great grandkids can get some type of benifit I see nothing wrong with it.

Hell things are still screwed up today as it is.

Regarding the talk about how the money will spent or what it will be spent on that's all on the individual person. If someone wants to foolishly spend their $ on sneakers and things like that then that's on them and their only hurting themselves. If others want to use the $ to pay off debts or pay for school or something productive then that's a good move.

But with all the silly things Murica spends excessive money on, I wouldn't be opposed to blacks getting reperations. I'm not black but I see nothing wrong with it.

 

[RIP sleazyy]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...of-racial-terrorism-says-u-n-panel/?tid=sm_tw

The history of slavery in the United States justifies reparations for African Americans, argues a recent report by a U.N.-affiliated group based in Geneva.

This conclusion was part of a study by the United Nations' Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, a body that reports to the international organization's High Commissioner on Human Rights. The group of experts, which includes leading human rights lawyers from around the world, presented its findings to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday, pointing to the continuing link between present injustices and the dark chapters of American history.

"In particular, the legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality in the United States remains a serious challenge, as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent," the report stated. "Contemporary police killings and the trauma that they create are reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynching."

Citing the past year's spate of police officers killing unarmed African American men, the panel warned against "impunity for state violence," which has created, in its words, a "human rights crisis" that "must be addressed as a matter of urgency."