indirect reparations
fund and update inner-city schools reformation programs, donate money to scholarship funds at HBCUs(which we ALL know are overworked and underfunded), implement building funds for the ghettos, knock down housing projects and instead build some Section 8 houses to give blacks who dont have much a jump start on having something
don't just hand someone 5000 dollars. cuz you KNOW they 're gonna spend it on stupid stuff. thats just people period.
my sister's Miss Black n Gold question was related to this
she had to discuss did she think free college education was a equal and enough reparation for african americans..
that would be nice but people wouldnt act right. they still wouldnt go to school
That's why it has to be more than just giving out scholarships and donating to HBCUs. They need to cover all bases. I was reading about how they're to crack down on programs geared towards getting minorities into careers that traditionally were like 99% white (like biomedical science)...like so many programs funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institute of Health (NIH) . They say it's reverse discrimination. I think that instead of trying to get rid of these programs.
They need to invest more money in them. Not just programs geared towards college students, but more well thought programs for adults to get them out of section 8...teach them skills that would be useful. Programs for young kids, get them while they're early.
I don't think reparations should be for individual black people. I think we should be compensated as a people for being a broken community & with a broken culture. Not necessarily the improvement of the person, but improvement of the people as a whole.
I think it's really inaccurate to compare African American life and struggle to those of other groups. What other group was displaced thousands of miles from their homeland, forced to forget where they came from and take on a new identity that most can't even understand? None that I can think of. You can say WWII was worse for Japanese or look at the Holocaust for Jews, both of those groups got some form of reperations for what happened to them (Japanese in internment camps in the U.S. did receive reperations for the way they were treated).
Blacks won't get reperation anytime soon because they don't know how to give it to us. I really think it's difficult for the U.S. gov't to look at how its passed actions have f*cked up and continue to f*ck up the black race. It's easy to say we should just get over it and build ourselves and move on but the truth of the matter is that the scars are too deep to just pick up and move on. We are a people who for the most part don't even know where the hell we came from. I've been to the national archives to look up family history and seen how unless your family kept a personal journal it's nearly impossible to go back past 4 generations or so. Blacks did begin to receive reparations directly following slavery( Reconstruction anyone) but we see what happened to that don't we? Had the U.S. gov't not disconitued all is was doing during Reconstruction I believe we would definately be in a adifferent place right now.
I think it's really inaccurate to compare African American life and struggle to those of other groups. What other group was displaced thousands of miles from their homeland, forced to forget where they came from and take on a new identity that most can't even understand? None that I can think of. You can say WWII was worse for Japanese or look at the Holocaust for Jews, both of those groups got some form of reperations for what happened to them (Japanese in internment camps in the U.S. did receive reperations for the way they were treated).
Blacks won't get reperation anytime soon because they don't know how to give it to us. I really think it's difficult for the U.S. gov't to look at how its passed actions have f*cked up and continue to f*ck up the black race. It's easy to say we should just get over it and build ourselves and move on but the truth of the matter is that the scars are too deep to just pick up and move on. We are a people who for the most part don't even know where the hell we came from. I've been to the national archives to look up family history and seen how unless your family kept a personal journal it's nearly impossible to go back past 4 generations or so. Blacks did begin to receive reparations directly following slavery( Reconstruction anyone) but we see what happened to that don't we? Had the U.S. gov't not disconitued all is was doing during Reconstruction I believe we would definately be in a adifferent place right now.
The big problem is them getting Nuked beyong Life happened to them, while slavery did NOT happen to us.
That's not even the point. Slavery didn't happen to "us" but it did affect us. It's the mental aspect of what slavery did to blacks that continues to live on and continues to cause us problems. And the oppression of blacks did not end with slavery, come on people. Blacks were still being stepped on into the 1970's. My parents both went to segregated shcools and neither one of them is a senior citizen. Slavery was only the beginning, and therefore reperations is about more than just slavery.
exactly jag
it's time for Blacks to get it together and realize just how serious slavery was
stop making excuses for white people thundersunk
you'll lose each and everytime
exactly jag
it's time for Blacks to get it together and realize just how serious slavery was
stop making excuses for white people thundersunk
you'll lose each and everytime
i agree.....it was so, so serious.....the effects of the created black self hate are not over, but we wont make the responsibility be placed where it belongs....its on us to change it, but we cant undermine the responsiblility
That's not even the point. Slavery didn't happen to "us" but it did affect us. It's the mental aspect of what slavery did to blacks that continues to live on and continues to cause us problems. And the oppression of blacks did not end with slavery, come on people. Blacks were still being stepped on into the 1970's. My parents both went to segregated shcools and neither one of them is a senior citizen. Slavery was only the beginning, and therefore reperations is about more than just slavery.
I'm not making excuses for anyone. I'm just poking the wholes in your theory, and the theory in whole. When did I say "White people shouldn't have to pay reperations because..."
So you are saying slavery is still mentally affecting you? Oppression is also reason for reperation? I don't need reperations to feel better. Do you not realize the huge economical FAILURE in this? Reperations cannot only be made to blacks, because it is illegal to classify due to race under NATO and the U.S. Government. The money they would be paying out to Blacks would be pocket change than to those that end up going to overseas family.
Let's think outside of the proverbial box folks.
