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The money would come with an implicit admission that Jim Crow laws were racist and wrong, and that is why blacks alive today who lived under that system would be getting reparations.The problem here is that you think you can buy your way out of the problem. The amount of money is kind of meaningless...it's the admission of the wrong that is the problem here.
Who’s hiding history? That’s the big lie. We learned all about slavery and Jim Crow laws, and the way blacks were treated in the past. You libs are making to sound as if whites are painting a picture of rose gardens throughout history.You and IM2 are two sides of the same coin...
Do you really think hiding history from Students is a good policy. The point is, they aren't making this stuff up. This stuff really happened. If anything, we aren't teaching it enough.
The problem is when those racists were thrown out of the Democratic Party in the 1960's, the Republicans and Tricky Dick welcomed them with open arms.
The problem is when those racists were thrown out of the Democratic Party in the 1960's, the Republicans and Tricky Dick welcomed them with open arms.
Wrong. You don't get to decide. Your existence among others here is evidence that things still exist. And you don't get to base black reparations on what Germans gave to Jews. Jim Crow was in all 50 states and white jews were able to benefit from U.S. government programs.The following would be fair:
How much: $729 per month*
Who gets it: Blacks born before 1965 who lived in one of the Jim Crow states, and who are alive today, for the rest of their lives.
*This was based on the $290 per month, calculated in 1988, and paid by Germany to DIRECT Holocaut survivors, indexed for inflation.
And Lincoln belived that blacks were inferior. So just drop the silly stuff.“I'll have them ******* voting Democratic for the next two hundred years. [Said to two governors regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to then-Air Force One steward Robert MacMillan]”
― Lyndon B. Johnson
The following would be fair:
How much: $729 per month*
Who gets it: Blacks born before 1965 who lived in one of the Jim Crow states, and who are alive today, for the rest of their lives.
*This was based on the $290 per month, calculated in 1988, and paid by Germany to DIRECT Holocaut [sic] survivors, indexed for inflation.
I was born in 1953 and identify as black.
Doesn‘t anyone want to find a solution to the anti-white racism?
Did you notice that every single paragraph said MIGHT. That was someone with a Masters in Business Administration masturbating! No facts at all just WAGs.Citygroup's study determined that since the year 2000, continuing discriminatory practices in four areas resulted in a loss of 16 trillion dollars. The breakdown is as follows:
“Closing the Black racial wage gap 20 years ago might have provided an additional $2.7 trillion in income available for consumption and investment.
Improving access to housing credit might have added an additional 770,000 Black homeowners over the last 20 years, with combined sales and expenditures adding another $218 billion to GDP over that time.
Facilitating increased access to higher education (college, graduate, and vocational schools) for Black students might have bolstered lifetime incomes that in aggregate sums to $90 to $113 billion.
Providing fair and equitable lending to Black entrepreneurs might have resulted in the creation of an additional $13 trillion in business revenue over the last 20 years. This could have been used for investments in labor, technology, capital equipment, and structures and 6.1 million jobs might have been created per year.”
Citigroup determined money lost due to racial discrimination against blacks since 2000. At a minimum, reparations can be requested for money lost from 2000 until right now. If we only take lost income from racism starting in 2000, it equals $57,569 per black person in America based on the 2020 U.S. Census. Including all losses due to racial discrimination equals $277,185 per black person in America. This is money for things done in OUR LIFETIMES.
Dana M Peterson, Catherine L Mann, Closing the Racial Inequality Gaps, The Economic Cost of Black Inequality in the U.S., pg. 4, Closing the Racial Inequality Gaps - CitiGPS
You have lived your life getting something for nothing. Whites have caused the most destruction and whites have not allowed us to live here because this is not your country.I am completely against the payment of reparations.
* Payments would settle nothing. Blacks always want something for nothing, and they are never satisfied. So, to Hell with them.
* We would have to deduct enough money to cover all the destruction and crime caused by blacks. After deductions, blacks would still end up owing us trillions of dollars. So, blacks would still end up with what they deserve: NOTHING.
* Blacks are still living in miserable shitholes all over Africa, so we should charge American blacks back rent for having allowed them to live in this great country.
* There is much more to add, but that covers the basics.
* That rant left me exhausted. Will someone please send me a free twenty dollar bill so I can go have a needed drink. I promise to pay you back as soon as I get my first reparations check. See - I'm sounding blacker by the minute. Lol...
* I once had a black eye, so if these idiotic reparations are ever paid I demand my full share, dammit
ya think? maybe because whites outnumber blacks 4 to 1?The majority of people who got Food Stamps or welfare are white.
Not to mention such "Middle Class" entitlements such as Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment insurance and Veterans Benefits that largely benefit white people.
Welfare for me and not for thee.
Gee, IM2...one of my ancestors fought in the Civil War to free the slaves. Does that mean that YOU owe me reparations?And Lincoln belived that blacks were inferior. So just drop the silly stuff.
Tortured history is the refusal of righ wing republicans to admit to their complicity instead of putting all the blame on democrats. There was a switch and republicans here just need to quit the lying. Because right now it's not democrats supporting remembering the confederacy, nor did democrats fillibuster the most recent voting rights bill.That's tortured history. 19 of 21 DIxieCrat Senators who served under Jim Crow were STILL THERE IN the early 90s. Weren't hardly any Repub govs in South until about Reagan era. And you keep repeating it.
No one cares what you're against. Were you against reparations to other groups wronged by government policy or just blacks?I am completely against the payment of reparations.
* Payments would settle nothing. Blacks always want something for nothing, and they are never satisfied. So, to Hell with them.
* We would have to deduct enough money to cover all the destruction and crime caused by blacks. After deductions, blacks would still end up owing us trillions of dollars. So, blacks would still end up with what they deserve: NOTHING.
* Blacks are still living in miserable shitholes all over Africa, so we should charge American blacks back rent for having allowed them to live in this great country.
* There is much more to add, but that covers the basics.
* That rant left me exhausted. Will someone please send me a free twenty dollar bill so I can go have a needed drink. I promise to pay you back as soon as I get my first reparations check. See - I'm sounding blacker by the minute. Lol...
* I once had a black eye, so if these idiotic reparations are ever paid I demand my full share, dammit
One of my ancestors fought in the civil war and he actually did fight to free himself from slavery. Yours didn't. And since the racism has continued long after slavery, try talking about that.Gee, IM2...one of my ancestors fought in the Civil War to free the slaves. Does that mean that YOU owe me reparations?
No.ya think? maybe because whites outnumber blacks 4 to 1?
1) Of course we get to decide. A minority population of 14% doesn’t get to DEMAND what the majority hands them.Wrong. You don't get to decide. Your existence among others here is evidence that things still exist. And you don't get to base black reparations on what Germans gave to Jews. Jim Crow was in all 50 states and white jews were able to benefit from U.S. government programs.
This was an exercise in what might be fair. I restricted the people who get reparations to senior citizens who lived in Jim Crow states, and from payments provided by people who lived in those states. I also put income restrictions on both ends.By stealing from white people to pay for an offense in which the vast majority of us have never had any willing part?
What you propose is to commit the very offense tat you claim in that post to be trying to solve.
What you propose •IS• anti-white racism.
None of those are entitlements. All were earned. And any black person who has been employed is just as eligible for the first three as any white. As far as VA benefits, they are color blind. ANY veteran with an honorable discharge gets them. All four programs are color blind.
