Always a touchy subject. In this case, it's great that it came from a private party. I think that's the only way true reparations can ever be made, is through privatized efforts, because the same gov't laws that attempted to put an end to unfairness, also handicap any efforts of restitution. It's up to all of us to get creative to help people that were heavily restricted in terms of employment and education....unless you're RobRoy, then fuck 'em.
When what is complete?
reparations.
i have a feeling they're going to trace slaver families through dna and send them a bill for their portion..should be easy to figure who had cropdusters to throw dynamite out of in Tulsa. these families are generational. lots of pics were taken back then of white women screaming the same hate as their men. Southerners <spit> easy ID.
The belief that someone over a hundred years removed from the actual event should in some way be seen as responsible for what happened? There are plenty of better things than the past to take advantage of. Why continue to call foul when the foul can’t be solved or healed by people who had nothing to do with it? (Maybe the limits and walls they are hitting are self created) we limit ourselves by carrying a grudge that isn’t our own.
the tulsa one yes i can see repurations for them, that should have never happenen, and from what i hear they are trying to strike from the history books in Okey........in fact they are trying to strike alot of history out the books.....if they're going for DNA and such better start from LA and move east and north at all those cotton mills and factories......Texas technically was a slave state in fact once you crossed into Texas most people who were considered slaves were free....you just had one thing to fight as it were....and that was the native americans...
Because the people that have benefitted seem to have really short memories and the people that have not, don't. It's really nice to be on the dismissive end of things, but things might seem a bit different from the other perspective.The belief that someone over a hundred years removed from the actual event should in some way be seen as responsible for what happened? There are plenty of better things than the past to take advantage of. Why continue to call foul when the foul can’t be solved or healed by people who had nothing to do with it? (Maybe the limits and walls they are hitting are self created) we limit ourselves by carrying a grudge that isn’t our own.
We are Irish. And slavery was a part of life for my ancestors as well. And I can tell you, Irish still have a “stereotype “. Difference... I would never give someone the power to make me feel enslaved. If someone chooses to feel abused even though they’ve had it no worse than any other, that’s ridiculous... if your child acted that way you would correct them. So why is this a theme at all? (Think about it) it’s easier to control a divided population. If you think small you will never see beyond yourself.
What do you mean by them being complete though?
I think you are mistaking 'tax payers' with 'people who had nothing to do with it'.The belief that someone over a hundred years removed from the actual event should in some way be seen as responsible for what happened? There are plenty of better things than the past to take advantage of. Why continue to call foul when the foul can’t be solved or healed by people who had nothing to do with it? (Maybe the limits and walls they are hitting are self created) we limit ourselves by carrying a grudge that isn’t our own.
You do know that (assuming "Detroit" in your name isn't just some troll, welcome to the site, we will get back to that later hopefully if you stick around. The trolling gets intense so if you are not a troll, remember you have a ignore feature) the suburbs around Detroit actively stopped melanin-abundent people from moving into them well into my childhood.
do you think reparations will ever happen? do you think the process of reparations will complete itself- make everyone whole?
You're completely misunderstanding the issue, imo. This isn't about hurt feelings, it's about the rates of cultural development and advancement. If you have two neighboring families living their lives through various generations, saaaay from 1820, to today, looking at just over 200 years. One family "A" was held back to shit jobs and shit education, technically until the 1960's, but realistically for much longer than that. Then you have another family "B" that thrived generation after generation building education and wealth. Statistically speaking, it's technically possible for both families to appear the same today, but what do you think the odds are that one of those families is significantly behind the other?
honest opinion ...........NO.....the idea of reparation will not happen....most wanna start with the land owner, but in all honesty u have to go further back......like Africa back...it was there own people who put them on those miserable ship....now we get the ship owner....most were dutch, spanish, portuguese, and french......there the ones who brought them over.......well the rest as it were is history...
I don't really know what people mean when they use 'reparations' enough to put much thought into it, so I really don't know.
And not just how, but who. It's the same legislative floodgate that allowed unfairness, that you'd need to open in order to correct unfairness. With republicans around, we can't allow that to happen. World of unintended consequences and all that.
The same exact things were done to the Irish. It was just long before America. And again... we still have to deal with prejudice. No we weren’t given reparations either. And we have moved on as a people. Just sayin..... it will never leave till people stop keeping it alive. And tbh we all know reparations won’t happen cuz it would ruin the richest families in the country. (Ya the ones who are in power). Cmon people wake up fuck reparations! How bout give us real freedom.
Which is why voting matters so much right now in any state that the Republicans are not changing the rules so that their voters don't matter (if they can pull it off and the Republican voters don't slap them down in favor of 'owning the libs').
Right, and America is the government that should have protected these American citizens.