Posted on 08/01/2016 6:08:23 PM PDT by dynachrome
Today "The Movement for Black Lives," a coalition "more than 50 organizations representing thousands of Black people from across the country" posted a 22 page list of "demands" in what they called "A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom and Justice."
The demands are fairly extensive and call for, among many other things, the following for Black people: free and open access to all public universities, retroactive forgiveness of all student loan debt, passage of H.R. 40 to study a "Reparation Proposal for African Americans," removal of police from schools, retroactive decriminalization and release of all people held on drug and prostitution-related offenses and a restructuring of local, state and federal tax codes to achieve a "radical and sustainable redistribution of wealth."
The policy demands were summarized as follows:
Together, we demand an end to the wars against Black people. We demand that the government repair the harms that have been done to Black communities in the form of reparations and targeted long-term investments. We also demand a defunding of the systems and institutions that criminalize and cage us. This document articulates our vision of a fundamentally different world.
This agenda continues the legacy of our ancestors who pushed for reparations, Black self-determination and community control; and also propels new iterations of movements such as efforts for reproductive justice, holistic healing and reconciliation, and ending violence against Black cis, queer, and trans people. A full list of the demands is presented below (and can be viewed here):
End the War On Black People
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Helps Trump.
Can they cash a check for 36 cents?
I’m basing the reparation amount on what they’re individually worth to the country.
Obama’s October Surprise
I second the motion.
We want reparations for all the Union Soldiers who died in the Civil War.
To whom do we send the bill?
You need new glasses, sparky.
When/if it ever does kick off, you'll be in no doubt in your last few moments on earth.
You idiots are killing yourselves, and to paraphrase the old saying: when your opponent is committing suicide, stay out of the way.
TMLR. Too. Much. Like. Right.
It did have a cure for some forms of crime: make it legal.
It’s the homies in the hood waging the war on themselves.
The real damage to black communities comes from the very leftists for whom they vote en-mass.
Several generations of the war on poverty has succeeded in institutionalizing the dependency class, and continues to this day.
These people are demanding the full mile, because we have given them an inch at a time, a foot at a time, and never asked or demanded anything in return.
Charity, like government and education, is best when it’s local.
Sadly, even the GOPe can’t see a way out of this mess.
The way out is not difficult to see; stop all of it...cold turkey.
Let’s have it over with, and deal with the boil-over one time.
Bring it, BLM. Stop your damnable whining and caterwauling. I owe you NOTHING. You, on the other hand, owe me the monies unwillingly extracted from me for the last 50+ years, and for which you have not even taken a moment to say “thank you”.
Your ingratitude speak volumes. Sad. Just sad.
An old Soviet propaganda trick, that I first became aware of back with the Ban the Bomb movement, is to form lots and lots of organizations with the same people in them. It gives the appearance of a big and powerful movement and if the media gets on board then it just might grow.
End your war on cops first!
Well that sums up the Democratic party. Slavery, Abortion, all this from the party of the KKK. Also, you get nothing! Go out and earn it!!
Request: DENIED
Blacks want something for doing nothing.
Blacks have determined that whitey owes them money simply because they exist.
I believe Abraham Lincoln stated it quite clearly after the carnage of the Americam Civil War and the countless American lives lost in the effort to free them; that any debt, past, present and future was paid in full. These ungrateful parasites have never worked a day in their life.
Without the white man to give them everything they have, they would starve to death in a matter of months.
No.
Don’t owe anyone reparations for what other people did.
No.
I don’t feel like investing in anything because I ought to on account of bad things other people have done. Indeed, being said that I ought to for such a reason makes it less likely that I’d ever want to.
As for more political power: keep voting for Democrats. I’m sure SOMEDAY they make care less about aborting babies (many of which are black), or homosexuals, or creepy guys claiming they’re women, or disarming law abiding citizens, or any of the innumerable other things that Democrats have decided to care about besides blacks all these years they’ve been voting for them.
Now, I’m not saying Republicans are all that: the RNC is useless, infected with the same progressivism that runs rampant in the DNC, granted a less virulent strain.
Still, useless is better than insanely dangerous, which is what the DNC has become.
Didn’t they get the Memo that the Rich Muslim Lawyer who bashed Trump at the Rat Convention is the flavor of the week?
“radical and sustainable redistribution of wealth.”
Dear Radical Black People,
F you.
Sincerely,
Jane A. White person who never owned a slave nor was alive during slavery.
So what say you all - we say ok subject to the set offs from criminal justice, incarceration costs, etc. bet we all get paid.
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