Why It's Time for America to Get Real About Reparations for Black Folks

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But while we grapple with the growing unrest surrounding income inequality and what that means for the waning middle class (read white male blue-collar workers), with "The Case for Reparations," a provocatively titled cover story for The Atlantic, Ta-nehisi Coates moves far beyond the traditional notions of calling for a financial payout for blacks.

Instead, Coates illustrates that through systematic violence and discriminatory government policies and laws-not just racist ideas held by bigoted citizens-black Americans have been and continue to be handicapped.



OMG!!!

How many generations of African Americans are going to continually want to milk the slavery masters future ancestors, neighbors and their governing bodies dry off the cries of their predecessors lot in life?

Granted, during the era of purchased and indentured servants black folks had to work for their living and occasionally felt the lash of the whip if they tried to boycott for better conditions.

But all in all considering the day and times and what other poor minorities and even certain white folks had to endure too, they were at least lucky enough to have steady work that included room and board, food and clothes.

Instead of looking at any of the positive aspects of a difficult and yet character building era that would eventually redefine and unite much in our country's history, only the lack of a free hand that was impossible to extend then is being expected now and in all generations to come?

Yep! Let's forget the American Indian, the chinese railroad workers, the Japanese Americans of WW2, share croppers, the veterans, and all the rest......

Liberal blacks want paid for their ancestors hardships! Any who oppose it are of course racists..... or Repulsicons..... even tho it was the Demoncraps who opposed all actions sought or taken to right any "supposed" wrongs!

Let's also not forget it was their own countrymen who sold them into slavery...... but I don't see them asking Africa or Egypt for "reparations"......

The only thing Reparations will do is make Cadillac the number one selling car in the United States.

That is, on its face, a bigoted remark my friend

I get it..... just like the "N" word is only acceptable when blacks use it, but racist and offensive if used by others.

But, Cadillac (many Fords and Dodge trucks) are the only cars still 100% made in the USA for our national market, the innuendo was not fitting to the topic.

I encourage their purchase as fine automobiles for anyone.... even blacks.

They left out Jim Crow and Segregation the Democrats fought so hard for, even forcing President Eisenhower to send Special Forces into a school in Little Rock to protect the African American College Students just trying to get an educated. He had to resort to that measure because the Democratic Governor of that state sent State Troopers, Local Police and National Guard to blockade the school and not let the American Americans in, which played right into Eisenhower's hand because he just Federalized the National Guard Troops and sent them back to base. He was a great man and a great war hero and a great President.

no one wants your money,, lol,, relax

I ENCOURAGE people to read the thing they are opposing before they oppose it.


reperation: the making of amends for wrong or injury done

I know, in America, people can only think in terms of money,, but really, there is no way to only take white peoples money, so this fear so many have that some people will have their money taken because of their race just to go to other people,,,,can subside now,,,,

NOTHING is free! Somebody pays! And it's usually the middle class taxpayer... of course the poor then become poorer because bringing others down is never a lift to anyone but those at the top

I want reparations too.....

I want the country to REPAIR The things that are broken

that will take cooperation from everyone and in turn will lift everyone up,,,,

yep,that's what the Bolsheviks claimed too!
And so did every Socialist-Thug since,and always with the same adverse result!

I hope you are right. I do know that we ALL have to be able to see past the color of our respective skin....it is so pointless to let everything hinge on race. :)

But for things to change we must all accept that we are part of the problem so that we can be part of the solution. no one excepted. the "problem" cannot go undefined but it cannot be defined in racial terms either

peace=colorblind

which socialist thug are you hinting at? Obama? lol

Just because some Socialist in Europe wanted to repair his country does not mean that we cannot do that here. I would also like to see our country repair the things that are wrong but I am not a socialist....quite different. The repairs should move away from a socialist state in MY opinon, anyway

NO!!! Let's NOT forget America's true and natural born citizens the Indians!

When I think of the horrendous atrocities that have been committed against a particular race of human beings while annihilating them off the face of the earth my ire becomes palpable!

And how dare African Americans think to pity trip every other race and nationality into feeling sorry for what their ancestors went through as a result of their own countries greed! When they were allowed to breed and prosper to a limited degree. They weren't butchered and had whole tribes wiped off the map. Or put on reservations while being treated like a scourge.

This attitude that every black person should be compensated in some way for the normal human hardships their ancestors went through here in the USA is utterly ridiculous. IMO.

This is definitely a baseless entitlement attitude that in no way deserves the amount of fostering its been given. IMO.

Shyt! If black folks get to cry "poor me" so they can receive preferential treatment, what about the rest of us that have been discriminated against and been deprived of our civil and constitutional rights?

from The Case for Reperations

Won’t reparations divide us? Not any more than we are already divided. The wealth gap merely puts a number on something we feel but cannot say—that American prosperity was ill-gotten and selective in its distribution. What is needed is an airing of family secrets, a settling with old ghosts. What is needed is a healing of the American psyche and the banishment of white guilt.

What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal. Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage. Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.


http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

its no more 'poor me' than it is to seek damages when one is in a car accident caused by someone else

some things are due,, it is just complicated to figure out what that is in the case of a people who were enslaved BASED UPON THEIR RACE, for over 250 years and then disenfranchised for the next century,


a people who spent nearly 400 years of their history here, working but being unequal for no reason but who their ancestors were


there is no group that is CLOSE EXCEPT for native americans,,,and I would back up their claim to some reperation to,,,

although Im sure some would believe it as already rendered through 'treaties',,,

And just what can you expect, britni danielle And then there is always the true value of her work, Turn It Loose [Kindle Edition], for free. Or you can order the book that cost more used than new.

But my big question is why someone would want to keep posting trash by losers that want to keep race baiting?

And to answer the question of the OP, as long as idiots keep thinking it carries any significance and keeping it in the light instead of just letting it die into obscurity like it deserves.

And not to mention that it was primarily the British that bought them and distributed them throughout the world. And when this country became a free world, the founders made a very profound statement that all men were created equal. There was great controversy over the matter of slavery, but that was the trend of the day. The constitution was a compromise, with recognition that the problem needed to be resolved by the states before 1808, twenty years, even though there was an immediate tax imposed of $10 per head for importation of any such persons by the states. At that time it was against the law in most states to free the slaves.

But I think anyone that feels they need reparation should receive such. All they need do is renounce their citizenship and they will receive a one way ticket back to Africa.

Otherwise they need to accept they are free and go about conducting their business as free men, just like anyone else.

I agree with you, that is a totally uncalled for and bigoted remark.