Posted on Sep 21, 2019
Why Japanese-Americans received reparations and African-Americans are still waiting
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Interesting read. I’m not a fan of the latest reparations being part of political debates. I also feel any financial compensation more than a 150 years later makes no sense. All I want is guarantees that governments at all levels will ensure any further violations of one’s civil rights will stop being violated. We need serious criminal justice reform.
Why Japanese-Americans received reparations and African-Americans are still waiting
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Can we skip reparations and get General Dynamics to end their now SIX YEAR campaign to block me from employment (in their effort to get me to make more Billions for them in the mid-Atlantic rather than work in Southern California). Please?
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Right there with you. My family is American Indian, Hispanic, African American and Caucasian. On my mother's side I am only second generation American and on my Dad's, 3rd generation. What should our reparations charge be? Do we get a discount for the African American portion? Does the American Indian portion eliminate the entire bill? How much do we get for the African American portion? This seems totally impossible to calculate and therefor impractical
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How much more in reparations should African-Americans receive? Is there no value in the tens of thousands of white men who shed their blood to free them? How about the billions spend on welfare, food stamps, aid to families with dependent children, free abortions, etc, etc, etc. Don't these things count? Seems to me that a few acres of land and a mule wouldn't be worth much compared to all that...
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I was with you, Jack, until the welfare, food stamps, free abortions statement. Plenty of White people get similar benefits So if you’re merely implying today’s descendants of slaves should just be happy to be free Americans with access to same benefits White Americans have then I’m so glad the Civil Rights movement was irrelevant. So no, Jack, those things don’t count. Also Blacks fought in that same very war for their freedom. Thousands of white men died in that war but you know as i do they didn’t initially go to war to end slavery. Would be nice if that was the truth though. But thanks for your opinion that giving the slaves freedom, giving them land (they stole some of it back), and eventually giving them protected equal rights under the constitution after decades of human rights abuses, and access to benefits and education makes up for everything.
Yes financial reparations 150+ years later is nonsense.
Yes financial reparations 150+ years later is nonsense.
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