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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
Ganapathy

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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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Why is a black individual that is twenty years old owed anything? Why does a white individual that is twenty years old owe anything? Why does anyone alive today owe anything to blacks for slavery? How does any of this even begin to make sense? We are all responsible for our deeds, not the deeds of those people that came before us.

Btw, most people alive today were not alive in 1965.
 
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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Once again Ganapathy, your polls suck monkey balls.
 
Re: Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence

Everyone, I beg you - vote for the evil option! If nothing else, we can screw with Ganapathy by doing so.
 
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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They got reparations. It's called freedom.

Now it's just a matter of what they do with it.
 
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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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A vote for lynching is a vote for the OP being biased as all get-out.
 
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TheGoverness said:
Once again Ganapathy, your polls suck monkey balls.
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:lamo:yt
 
Re: Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence

Henrin said:
Why is a black individual that is twenty years old owed anything? Why does a white individual that is twenty years old owe anything? Why does anyone alive today owe anything to blacks for slavery? How does any of this even begin to make sense? We are all responsible for our deeds, not the deeds of those people that came before us.

Btw, most people alive today were not alive in 1965.
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Individuals are not the end all, be all of society. First and foremost, society is made up of groups of people: families, ethnic and religious groups, etc. Each group's members carry the burdens of their race as a whole, and even if one individual white person never owned slaves, the white race as a whole is still guilty of slavery.
 
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Ganapathy said:
Individuals are not the end all, be all of society. First and foremost, society is made up of groups of people: families, ethnic and religious groups, etc. Each group's members carry the burdens of their race as a whole, and even if one individual white person never owned slaves, the white race as a whole is still guilty of slavery.
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Did you know that slavery is still practiced in Africa to this very day? Should blacks here in the states pay for their crimes since their ancestors came from Africa? Did you know that Africans sold other Africans into slavery? Did you know that many of those slaves ended up here in the states? Should blacks in the US pay for their ancestors selling other Africans into slavery?

Do you really apply this pay for the crimes of your race idea equally? I bet not.
 
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Henrin said:
Did you know that slavery is still practiced in Africa to this very day? Should blacks here in the states pay for their crimes since their ancestors came from Africa?
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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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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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Ummm...no. Slavery has existed for thousands of years. Nice try, but fail.
 
Re: Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence

Ganapathy said:
Individuals are not the end all, be all of society. First and foremost, society is made up of groups of people: families, ethnic and religious groups, etc. Each group's members carry the burdens of their race as a whole, and even if one individual white person never owned slaves, the white race as a whole is still guilty of slavery.
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Tell that to the black slave owners in Africa.
 
Re: Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence

Ganapathy said:
Individuals are not the end all, be all of society. First and foremost, society is made up of groups of people: families, ethnic and religious groups, etc. Each group's members carry the burdens of their race as a whole, and even if one individual white person never owned slaves, the white race as a whole is still guilty of slavery.
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Every nation on this planet has had or still has slavery. Every race has been a slave trader. Every race has been a slave.

Your assertion is bunk.
 
Re: Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence

Ganapathy said:
Individuals are not the end all, be all of society. First and foremost, society is made up of groups of people: families, ethnic and religious groups, etc. Each group's members carry the burdens of their race as a whole, and even if one individual white person never owned slaves, the white race as a whole is still guilty of slavery.
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By that standard the so is every other race and ethnicity guilty of slavery and other crimes as well including genocide. Should the races be held accountable today when the people of today didn't even know their ancestors personally and what they allegedly did?
 
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That question is slanted, I vote no. But we certainly do not want Lynchings.
 
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PirateMk1 said:
By that standard the so is every other race and ethnicity guilty of slavery and other crimes as well including genocide. Should the races be held accountable today when the people of today didn't even know their ancestors personally and what they allegedly did?
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The burden of guilt lasts across generations, and the stain of racism manifests itself even today through the form of white privelege, which all whites have.
 
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Ganapathy said:
The burden of guilt lasts across generations, and the stain of racism manifests itself even today through the form of white privelege, which all whites have.
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I owe you nothing. I owe black people nothing. Now piss off.
 
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 claim that institutional racism still exists in the United States is nothing but a blatant lie. But then so is anti-American propaganda in general.

I don't know what "social justice" and "white america" (I'm not the least surprised that you didn't capitalize "America") are, other than witless jargon. But I do not feel the slightest guilt about what other Americans may have done in the past to disadvantage blacks. Paying blacks reparation for abuses most Americans now living took no part in is a foolish notion that no one should take seriously.
 
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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Re: Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence

Ganapathy said:
The burden of guilt lasts across generations, and the stain of racism manifests itself even today through the form of white privelege, which all whites have.
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No, the burden of guilt always rests with the person that did the action in question. No one owes blacks anything.
 
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Ganapathy said:
Let's not focus on me...
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I'm astonished you're still here.
 
Re: Should there be reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racial violence

This is not going to happen.

Wait and see.
 
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Simpleχity;1066172524 said:
I'm astonished you're still here.
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If there's a will there's a way, I guess.
 
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