Black People : Reparations could prevent the next Ferguson

[Kadijah]

Why would reparations prevent another Ferguson? So they give us some money and some land. Then pull another King/Garner/Ford/Crawford/Brown/Martin what will happen then. Would reparations prevent you from being angry and protesting. Or are you under the impression that if they give us reparations their mind set towards us will change?

Who are you talking to?

 

[Kadijah]

hmmm im really not sure on this in terms of reperations preventin another ferguson - just seems to me with say the germans the reperations came after, a long time after the event... but here we have the event still goin on - i dont know enough world history to know but is there a case anywhere where payin reperations was the cause of the end of the thing people were payin the reperations for? im not against reperations at all - just not quite sure how it would stop somethin like ferguson happenin again

I get what you're saying, however, the OP is saying something different:

What, exactly would that entail? Justice means more than putting perpetrators on trial. The transitional justice process also encompasses methods focused on the victims and the wider society, such as truthseeking, memorialization, education, institutional change, and material compensation — that is, actions that seek not only to punish, but to encourage a shared historical understanding, begin to repair the damage done, and ensure that it can't happen again.