The presidential candidate then elaborated, saying she supports Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s (D-TX) commission to study reparations.
This sidesteps the issue. How easy is it, for anyone to say, yes, let’s study an issue. She’s in favor of studying this matter, without committing to any specific course of action.
What about the war on poverty and affirmative action, civil rights laws, fair housing laws, etc.?? I think the fact that we have made great strides in making up for the sins of the past, needs to be taken into account when talking of “reparations” or what society is supposed to do to absolve ourselves of this “sin” of slavery at our founding.
“This sidesteps the issue. How easy is it, for anyone to say, yes, let’s study an issue. She’s in favor of studying this matter, without committing to any specific course of action.”
Matter has already been studied and a solution provided. It’s called Affirmative Action. Maybe someone can educate Ms. Harris on this and how it destroyed generations of black families.
Slavery in America was not a sin. It was the best thing that ever happened to the black race in the history of the world. It saved the lives of the slaves themselves from those who had captured them because they would have been eaten or killed by their captors if selling them to the white man with the ship had not been an option. It thus enabled descendants to exist. period. The ones complaining about the “sin” of slavery would not even exist today had it not occurred. That slavery brought blacks from Africa into the modern world and gave them a seat at the table with all of the other races cannot be overlooked. It’s up to blacks to step up and take advantage of the opportunity afforded them rather than complain how it took place.