Black People : Why It’s Time for America to Get Real About Reparations for Black Folks

Why do you bring religion into this thread? Its so far off topic. This thread is about Reparations! Can't you post in threads that are not about Religion?
LOL, butterfly! This thread is not about religion; it's about reparations for the building this of country on our ancestors' backs, FOR FREE under threat of death and dismemberment, for 300-500 years (how many centuries depends on who you're talking to ...lol). But thank you for expressing MY irritation with the hypocrites who when making a "moral" argument, will throw in a verse from the bible that they scorn and revile, otherwise. :rolleyes:
 
That's the plan:)


So together, we know 10 people, or maybe a hundred, or a thousand who wouldn't fritter away the money in 5 years, tops. That leaves 37,999,000 who will..... give it back to the beast.

btw, $230,000 to EVERY descendant of a slave? All 38 MILLION of us (2,000,000 blacks are NOT African-Americans, rather recent immigrants)? That's $9,420,000,000,000 or, what? 9 TRILLION dollars and change?:10400:

Dream on.
 
Thanks for sharing writer33,

Without a doubt, structural racism, systemic racism, you name it, still exists and still requires retribution, regardless of how one views the situation.

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Hi Clyde.....

At first I thought my "alert" was a response to what I said earlier. But I see not.

But now that I'm here, let me throw out a couple of thoughts. Some years ago I applied for a job in communications for the Kirwan Institute on Race & Ethnicity, based at Ohio State University. Kirwan was a former OSU president who is credited with making massive changes toward minority student enrollment, as I remember reading about him.

It is where I first heard the term, "structural racism," spoken by Kirwan's then president, prof. john powell. Note the use of lower case letters in his name, by his choice. I still would love to know. I'd received many of Kirwan's newsletters afterwards, and no question that prof. powell is a very keen-thinking black intellectual.

The entire notion, and structure, of white privilege embedded in our economic system needs to be eliminated, or at the least neutralized. Exactly how and what changes to do this are likely far too many to list in a short comment. But as possible examples of it: elimination of the existing credit reporting system, and ending of discriminatory bank and consumer finance fees based on that flawed credit reporting system. Whatever is needed to fairly replace these does suggest a massive engagement of legislative and procedural changes that will not be easy.

From it I would also hope to see the complete elimination of the "payday loan" industry, severe restrictions on interest and fee charges, from banks down to home loans, business loans, car loans, the retail industry in general. There must be some reasonably fair way to determine distinctions between fair consumer costs, and predatory capitalistic practices that always aimed at preying on the less fortunate.

In the criminal justice field, there must be a way to achieve operational fairness in our judicial systems. Such as for minority defendants, there must be a majority of minority jurors in a jury trial. Or some similar application of an across-the-board application of law to all races.

Our prisons and our prison system has the unfortunate bragging rights of more people in prison in America than anywhere else in the world, including China or Russia, or N Korea. I would suggest a serious look at the release of ALL serving time on non-violent offenses, particularly drug possession offenses, inasmuch as I have read of drug distribution focused primarily in black and minority communities, and then drug enforcement (we jokingly call the "war on drugs" which seemed more a war on minorities).

To sell this concept, to make it gain some acceptability, some form of accountability to provide some parole-like frameworks to help discharged inmates with temp housing, and training, job and counseling opportunities.

In education, with young people in general (not the prisons), some form of "free ride" college and university tuition arrangements, based on not only grades, but recommendations of teachers, counselors, especially from more minority segregated school systems. Poor white kids, as with blacks and Latinos, from stressed communities should also benefit,

In all these, I recognize a massive infusion of creative thinking will be needed to find the means to make it all work. And the white communities need to be engaged enough in it to recognize the damages from structural racism, and given some incentives to want to become engaged -- not just financial.

These are among thoughts that come immediately to mind. And I have no doubt I am barely scratching the surface.
 
LOL, butterfly! This thread is not about religion; it's about reparations for the building this of country on our ancestors' backs, FOR FREE under threat of death and dismemberment, for 300-500 years (how many centuries depends on who you're talking to ...lol). But thank you for expressing MY irritation with the hypocrites who when making a "moral" argument, will throw in a verse from the bible that they scorn and revile, otherwise. :rolleyes:

That's what I stated, its about Reparations, not religion. It seems that some cannot post on topics of certain posters without bring in religion by hook or crook. As you say ... it's irritating!
 
To Clyde, Kadijah and Butterfly....
One thing I totally overlooked in my prior post...and I should not have....is this very predatory trend in the privatization of our prison systems. I say this because I worked as a media consultant in the governor's office, assigned to the Indiana Department of Correction. I worked with two ombudsmen who came into the system on the same federal-state grant I did as a public affairs specialist and spokesman.
Back then I'm talking about the period 1973-76, when our entire prison population then was only around 5,000. Last I recall, I read it was well over 30,000 -- in Indiana alone.
Today there are horror stories about judges who were indicted for kickbacks from the "privatized" corrections profiteers for sending juvenile offenders into the juvenile system for the flimsiest of accusations -- for profit!
The whole idea of this is WRONG. Profiteering from racially tainted convictions of minorities is WRONG. And turning the whole American system of criminal law into a for-profit enterprise is blatantly and disgustingly WRONG.
The utter corruption of this was but a small beginning when I was working in it, back then I had a friend who served as a deputy commissioner for the Adult Authority in Indiana lured, then hired by a large private firm, Wackenhut Corrections, at the time our grant expired, and I had moved on to work on congressional staff in DC. At the time I didn't think much of it, like it was a great opportunity for him.
How could I know at the time this was the beginning of a cancerous form of a profiteering by-the-numbers infusion system!
It's extremely troubling to witness this kind of predatory exploitation as a "growth industry" that, with so many like it, should be eliminated.
 

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