Reparations for Slavery

[RedCardinalSeven]

Dissident Veteran For Peace: Biden-Harris, Rustin, & Reparations

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In the current American context reparations refers to the idea of forcing people who never owned slaves to pay compensation for slavery to people who never were slaves. Newsweek recently reported the estimated cost of reparations, according to one 2020 study, was "$6.2 quadrillion as of 2018" which "divided by 40,909,233 Black non-Hispanic descendants of the enslaved, could result in a total reparations payment per descendant of $151.63 million."

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[PaulB47]

Of course, all welfare payments are essentially a form of reparations, without the name. In general, these are all wealth transfers. Government is primarily a looting operation, dressed up as a protection racket.

"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."
-- Thomas Jefferson

 

[made in china]

Yah, I was gonna say reparations have been getting handed out for decades now. Welfare.

 

[sobo]

'And lo, there were welfare checks fallen upon the land. And upon them it was writ, "Fold not, neither shall ye spindle, nor mutilate." And LBJ saw that it was good...'

 

[ma96782]

BLM Policy.

The six platform demands are:

1. End the war on black people.

2. Reparations for past and continuing harms.

3. Divestment from the institutions that criminalize, cage and harm black people; and investment in the education, health and safety of black people.

4. Economic justice for all and a reconstruction of the economy to ensure our communities have collective ownership, not merely access.

5. Community control of the laws, institutions and policies that most impact us.

6. Independent black political power and black self-determination in all areas of society.

To achieve those demands the group offered a set of solutions that include the demilitarization of police and an end to systemic attacks on black youth, including black members of the LGBTQ community. They call for the passing of state and federal laws that acknowledge and address the impacts of slavery and the passage of H.R. 40 to form a commission to study reparations proposals. Another of the recommendations calls for the "retroactive decriminalization and immediate release of all people convicted of drug offenses, sex work-related offenses and youth offenses."

Taken from: Black Lives Matter Releases Policy Agenda

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Even IF......
It were to be considered......
Then what about proof of eligibility?



Aloha, Mark

 

[NeSeR13]

What if your ancestors never owned slaves and fought for the Union to end slavery and defeat the Confederacy?

 

[FullMetalJerk]

The driver of the truck died.

 

[Dinglenutz]

What if your ancestors never owned slaves and fought for the Union to end slavery and defeat the Confederacy?

Was just going to say that - all the blood shed to end slavery in the USA, and spread that idea world wide, is more than enough reparations. Beyond that, I'd say it's fine for every person legally held in slavery to demand reparations from the individuals who did the holding. I doubt we would have many Americans on either list.

 

[ma96782]

The driver of the truck died.

LOL, Rrrrrright......

"SECURITY"?

Aloha, Mark

 

[sobo]

The driver of the truck died.

That makes it a homicide now. Multnomah Co. DA can't ignore this one. This is NOT kids goofin' around in front of the federal courthouse anymore.
This is at least a Murder 2 rap. Git 'im!

 

[CountryGent]

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