reparations?
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Started by tdx5000
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Dec 2005
tdx5000
oakland, CA
should we get them, how should they be administered?........and break
I don't remember having the word "excuses" anywhere in my post. However, the mental backlash of slavery and the oppression which has followed ever since then effects us all. If you don't see the effect years of oppression, systemic and otherwise, have had on blacks I don't know what country you are living in but it must not be America. And reperations have nothing to do with making someone "feel" better. And why would reperations through the implementation of programs cause economic failure. I'm not saying write blacks a check, for what? The idea of giving reperations to blacks is not new (40 acres and a mule?) It's just the fact that blacks have yet to receive them. This country would definately not be what it is without the labor of our ancestors.
LadyJag7 wrote:I don't remember having the word "excuses" anywhere in my post. However, the mental backlash of slavery and the oppression which has followed ever since then effects us all. If you don't see the effect years of oppression, systemic and otherwise, have had on blacks I don't know what country you are living in but it must not be America. And reperations have nothing to do with making someone "feel" better. And why would reperations through the implementation of programs cause economic failure. I'm not saying write blacks a check, for what? The idea of giving reperations to blacks is not new (40 acres and a mule?) It's just the fact that blacks have yet to receive them. This country would definately not be what it is without the labor of our ancestors.
