was a good mistress to her slaves. She hardly ever beat them, and the Belle of Amherst was easy on their chains.
Posted on 03/10/2021 11:51:40 AM PST by matt04
Professor Edwin Driver arrived in Amherst in 1948 as one of the first Black teachers hired at a flagship state university in the country.
But the 23-year-old sociology instructor at what would become the University of Massachusetts Amherst says he was denied pay raises for decades, despite being one of its most published professors.
Driver and his wife, who was from India, also encountered roadblocks trying to buy a house in the mostly white college town. Their three children faced racism from neighbors and school officials alike.
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Kamm Howard, co-chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, said the wide-ranging approaches could provide models for a national reparations program. He’s also not surprised Amherst, long a liberal bastion, is tackling the issue.
“It validates that every community in America, no matter the size, is a microcosm of the broader problem,” Howard said. “You’re going to find these things, if you dig. "
Amherst’s effort started with a petition launched last summer by two white yoga instructors, which led to a town council-approved resolution in December committing Amherst to a “path of remedy” for Black residents “injured or harmed by discrimination and racial injustice.”
Michele Miller and Matthew Andrews, who led the petition effort as co-founders of the group Reparations for Amherst, said they wanted to provide something “tangible and healing” for local Black families amid nationwide protests and turmoil.
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Kathleen Anderson, a former president of the Amherst NAACP chapter, said she’s encouraged that white residents initiated the reparations effort.
But the next step needs to come from the Black community, she said. Anderson and other Black residents are taking part in virtual conversations this spring to talk about what reparations should look like.
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Let us look at the numbers (I know, kinda a white thing to do...):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherst,_Massachusetts#Demographics
5.4% of the population of town is black.
5.4% x 37,819 = 2,042 black folks.
7.3% of the population of the town is hispanic.
I am sure the hispanic folks will love paying reparations to black folks....
not!
It’s Amherst, let the town and and its hyper-left residents suffer. Take no sides.
Hey, good idea. Let all the universities in the US pay the bill for reparations as they have tons of money given to them by tax payers in addition to their outrageous tuition and fees.
I went to school there and you are 100% right.
That place was bad when i was there in the early 90s and has only gotten worse.
Let them eat it.
But, but, slavery!
UMass Amherst was founded in 1863. At that time most Northern states had less than 1% black population.
How many young Union war soldiers from Amherst died fighting to end slavery? Will their deaths count in the reparations equation?
Whitey gets to pay as always.
If a lot of those Union soldiers could have time traveled to today before they went off to war—they would have fought for the other side.
No point in liberating people who are going to hate you anyway.
Black residents are taking part in virtual conversations this spring to talk about what reparations should look like.
I have a suggestion: renounce citizenship and get a one way ticket to Liberia.
Must "fox" it?
Regards,
I suggest that we found a "National Coalition of Whites for Reparations in America," and demand reparations for our Union dead.
Regards,
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.—Kipling
Reparations should be paid to every former slave in America, and the reparations should come out of pockets of every former slave owner in America. What could be fairer?
Have the party of the KKK and Jim Crow chip in .... you know the party of Slow Joe.
Muy Party switch!!!!
Democrat LBJ and the Great Society have been shelling out reparations for 55 odd years now. Reparations are happening every day in America.
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