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[PurpleDaze112]

we talked about this in my history class. do you think black people should get reparations for slavery?

I actually do think so, and for these reasons.

1. they were PROMISED
2. slavery was an institution that not only displaced a people, but destroyed their culture and history
3. it would help the economy

reparations would cause each person of african descent (about 36 million in america)to get at least $10k. That would lead to new houses being purchased, cars bought, and educations paid for. Small businesses would be started too. And after all, Jews got reparations from the german gov't because of the holocaust, native americans get money for college from the feds, adn Japanese americans too. Slavery wasn't formally apologized for until bill clinton.

[brooklyneast05]

i'm with brandon in that i don't really care a ton at the end of the day. although i do think black people undeniably deserve more than this country has ever given them for their work.

but just for the hell of it

black people should have gotten reparations a long, long time ago. would have made a lot more sense and been a lot simpler to do then. i don't think there's any way to dismiss the fact it was deserved. white people got to enjoy the luxury of building their wealth with free labor, and they've yet to have to pay anything for it. the black community still suffers from fall out of slavery, racism, segregation, ect and a lot of white people, families, companies, the united states in general still benefit from all the free labor they got. the black community has and continues to be f*cked, and if people think that this isn't at least somewhat due to all the set backs and flat out wrong doings we've had forced on us, then i think they're nuts.

there's a lot of problems in the black community, whether it be with identity, family, self worth, economic, education, whatever, that are easily linked back to our treatment. people who disagree with this are either A) in denial or B) ignorant. i don't completely blame them in their ignorance because it's just one of those things that i feel like if you aren't in the black community, you usually don't get it. i think it's really complex in general.

in an ideal world, reparations should be paid out. they already should have. not in the form of a check either imo, but in the form of investing money into the black communities for things like business, education, ect.

i don't believe it's ever gonna happen though. i don't think white people now should have to pay money out for stuff they didn't do. although i do think they should at least acknowledge that their community has had it a million times easier than anyone else here in america. i can't think of any other group here who's oppressed, cheated, killed, beat, forced, or stolen as much as white people here. if they can't even recognize what a gigantic leg up they've gotten and that they still reap the benifits of it, then i don't really know what to say about it. they really just do not get it.


i don't anticipate any white person to agree with me though, or even really see where i'm coming from. i don't think i've ever talked to one about this stuff who did. *waits for michael to jump on me for this statement*