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Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence?

Should there be reparations for slavery and Jim Crow?

  • Yes, it will provide aid to suffering people of color

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Yes, it will face White America to face up to its crimes

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Yes, we need to apologize for 300 years of racist violence

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • No. We don't need reparations, we need more lynchings!

    Votes: 8 88.9%
  • Total voters
    9
Re: Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence

I have felt for a very long time that the case one can make for reparations for slavery - while good in many respects - is far far far outweighed by the tremendous damage such a program would wreak causing generations of racial grievance for a very long time. For that reason I am against it.
 
Re: Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence

TheGoverness said:
Once again Ganapathy, your polls suck monkey balls.
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Why do you hate black people? :(
 
Re: Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence

Ganapathy said:
The concept of slavery was introduced by white traders and merchants to Africa during the 1500's and 1600's. The fact that some places in Africa practice slavery is a direct result of European colonialism
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Then go get your reparations from the Europeans. Let us know how it works out.
 
Re: Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence

Ganapathy said:
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic

This well written, critically acclaimed article by Ta-Nehisi Coates leaves any non-racist reader with no possible conclusion than that reparations are necessary for the well being of our nation.

There was 250 years of slavery, 100 years of Jim Crow Laws, and racist housing practices such as redlining continue even to this day. To claim that there is no more institutional racism in the United States is nothing but a blatant lie. Which other country in the world can a white police officer shoot an African American child with his hands up, and not even face trial? No Jonathan Capehart: Hands Up, Don't Shoot is not a "Lie"

The history of abuse of people of color in this country, the closing of doors, of educational opportunities to people based solely on their skin colors, has hurt this country to this day. Reparations serve a twofold solution. They provide financial aid to communities of color who have been denied economic opportunity and social justice by the white population. The paying of reparations will also force white america to face their guilt in the abuse, enslavement, and murder of people of color for hundreds of years.
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Try putting a poll up with reasonable answers....
 
Re: Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence

Ganapathy said:
The concept of slavery was introduced by white traders and merchants to Africa during the 1500's and 1600's. The fact that some places in Africa practice slavery is a direct result of European colonialism
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Bull****... And you know it.

Documented slavery goes back to biblical times.


FROM YOUR SOURCE:

And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing today.

— Deuteronomy 15: 12–15
 
Re: Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence

WCH said:
They got reparations. It's called freedom.

Now it's just a matter of what they do with it.
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I see you didn't read the article.
 
Re: Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence

Ganapathy said:
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic

This well written, critically acclaimed article by Ta-Nehisi Coates leaves any non-racist reader with no possible conclusion than that reparations are necessary for the well being of our nation.

There was 250 years of slavery, 100 years of Jim Crow Laws, and racist housing practices such as redlining continue even to this day. To claim that there is no more institutional racism in the United States is nothing but a blatant lie. Which other country in the world can a white police officer shoot an African American child with his hands up, and not even face trial? No Jonathan Capehart: Hands Up, Don't Shoot is not a "Lie"

The history of abuse of people of color in this country, the closing of doors, of educational opportunities to people based solely on their skin colors, has hurt this country to this day. Reparations serve a twofold solution. They provide financial aid to communities of color who have been denied economic opportunity and social justice by the white population. The paying of reparations will also force white america to face their guilt in the abuse, enslavement, and murder of people of color for hundreds of years.
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The journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates said on Monday that he and his family would not move into a $2.1 million Brooklyn brownstone they recently bought because media coverage of the purchase had made them worried for their safety.
 
Re: Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence

Fledermaus said:
The journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates said on Monday that he and his family would not move into a $2.1 million Brooklyn brownstone they recently bought because media coverage of the purchase had made them worried for their safety.
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One African American writer who has enjoyed some very well deserved success does not counter the fact that the African American community still suffers from violence, discrimination, and a lack of opportunity caused by white bigotry and hate.
 
Re: Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence

TheGoverness said:
Because of my whiteness. :)
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I heard you were like, fluorescent and stuff.
 
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