Posted on 06/19/2020 9:54:05 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
I’d sooner renounce my citizenship and become an ex-pat.
I know what!!!
Let’s pay for housing, food, education, transportation, free cell phones, free money and medical care for 5 years for each african american and then STOP as REPARATIONS WILL BE PAID IN FULL.
That will easily be $50,000-$100,000 per person. Win win!!!
Seriously, just change the name from welfare to reparations and see how fast their argument changes.
You mean outside of the trillions of dollars already spent on programs through the federal government on this community? Including lowering test scores and expectations, affirmative action ect?
Sure, my great great grandfather died fighting against slavery in the Civil War. He was murdered by slave owners in grey uniforms.
What do I get?
July 4, 1776 to January 1, 1863.
This is incorrect. The Union kept slavery legal in the United States until 1865. There were five Union slave states during the Civil War.
Where ya gonna go?
We already live in the Alamo.
Thirty-five years of racist housing policy?
Last I saw, everybody who needs section 8 gets section 8.
Or is section 8 the racist policy?
The article talks about “redlining” which was done to deny FHA mortgages in bad neighborhoods. It talks of redlining back in the ‘30s and ‘40s and ‘50s in Chicago.
Ok....89 years.
I’ll check my pockets for some spare change.
Sure, my great great grandfather died fighting against slavery in the Civil War. He was murdered by slave owners in grey uniforms.
What do I get?
The three farmers enlisted in an Illinois regiment. One returned to a small pension.
The reparation list would go on for ever, to include each ethnic group that was discriminated against when they first came to our Country.
This drivel is just standing in the way of Black Americans getting ahead. While they are throwing tantrums and looking for someone to make them whole each individual could be working to secure a better future as an America, not as a Black.
I hear Costa Rica is nice.
Good point to keep the historical facts correct. Details and facts like that don’t bother these money-grabbers. Otherwise they wouldn’t be going after people who had nothing to do with slavery.
Juneteenth is the official date the US government told former slave owners that the millions of dollars in human capital they owned had now been nationalized, and they wouldn’t receive a dime in compensation.
NEVER !
Already paid and then some. How many years of welfare? How many years of hiring quotas? How many years of Affirmative Action? How many years of..? And at what cost all of that? I think somebody owes a mule back in change!
If he was fighting slavery, why didn't he fight the slaveowners in Maryland? It's much closer. As a matter of fact, he could have fought slavery in Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia or Delaware, which were all Union states.
Are you sure he was fighting slavery? Because it doesn't make sense to go into the South to fight it when you can just fight it in the North.
He was murdered by slave owners in grey uniforms.
Well he could have been killed by slave owners in blue Uniforms if he had just fought slavery in the Northern states.
I'm not sure what difference the color of the Uniforms makes. Slavery is slavery, isn't it? Blue Uniform Slavery is just as bad as Gray Uniform slavery, isn't it?
Is there something i'm missing here?
I know a family whose ancestor was a slave and ended up doing some very remarkable things. Very admirable. Became educated with a lot of education and really was a great role model.
Dont want to go into details because of what I am going to say next:
his descendants are a bunch of punks. some with mental issues, many are criminals, drug addicts, - some low level crimes, others habitual hard core violent felons, and some murderers, etc.
THey chose not to rise above whatever their perceived hardships were. This ancestor’s next generation seemed to be responsible citizens. No doubt they faced many hardships at the time due to skin color even though freed.....but it all went wrong as the generations went down the line
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