Fuck no. I was born in America. I won't accept nothing less than what is listed.
I hear things are fabulous in Socialist Zimbabwe. I would happily help you to pack.
Fuck no. I was born in America. I won't accept nothing less than what is listed.
I don't hate white people. I hate racist white men and women.
I'm confused???????????????????
YOU don't talk like an American, YOU talk like an African Negro with a Hatred for 'White People'.
TTQ: "Why the fuck do I want to hear anything else?"
Jack: My point exactly.
TTQ: "Slavery in bumfuck Egypt isn't going to eliminate for profit prisons in the US."
Jack: Only brought up so you can grasp that 'Slavery' was world-wide and NOT just some freak anomaly that happened to black people in America.
TTQ: "I'm talking about the US and the horrors they have caused my people."
Jack: Yes. I get that. Solely self-centered and Afro-centric.
TTQ: "YOU want to talk about something else......and I can understand why."
Jack: I was trying to bring the 'Discussion' into an 'American Perspective'. How 'Americans' view this, not just 'African Negroes'.
So free white people who joined the army and fought in a war of their own making deserves reparations?
What part of BLACKS WERE SLAVES do you not understand? I don't see the connection
I'm confused???????????????????
I am an American...…..you mean how white America views this...I'm not surprised they are against it. I think it's because they are afraid of being left behind. They can't compete on a equal playing field. They don't want to give up their privilege and need it to get ahead.
We will accept reparations in the forms of the following:
Eliminate the for profit prison industrial complex
Eliminate the cash bail system
Eliminate Check the box for housing
Eliminate Redlining in housing
Eliminate Check the box for employment
Eliminate Background checks for employment
Eliminate Bias's in Financial Institutions with low cost, low interest rate loans
Eliminate Voting restriction
Eliminate the Electoral College
Eliminate the Death Penalty
Eliminate Police Unions
Eliminate Racist laws such as sagging pants, loitering, skateboarding etc.
Eliminate Racial segregation laws
Revise and Revamp the ENTIRE LAW ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM hold racist departments, individual kops and the Justice Department accountable.
Revise and Revamp the ENTIRE JUDICIAL SYSTEM Hold racist Judges, DA's, Prosecutors, etc accountable.
Free Healthcare
Free Education
Raise the minimum wage to at lest 25.00 hr.
And if push comes to shove...…..give us our fuckin 40 acres and a mule!
THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN BY REPERATIONS
You are conditioned to think it's not about race.
I live in America. That is where my concern is.
My point is there have already been reparations- and part of those are the blood, lives, and limbs of those who fought indiscriminately to free slaves and end slavery.
These men were not drafted! These men volunteered to fight and die for their cause of freedom for all.
Do you have any appreciation for them?
You seem to be blaming them.
You are turning any valid discussion into a 'Black and White' issue. You are the LAST person to try and have a coherent discussion with. You are totally a 'Afro-centric' individual and have about the same perspective as some redneck that grew up Alabama in 1950.
Any 'discussion' with you is useless. Your 'White Hatred' just clouds anything you have to say.
Then why are you still posting to me?
I'm not. I'm going out to cut some grass. Have fun pretending like you want to have a 'Discussion'. Bye.
No YOU are blaming them, I never said that. They volunteered! I'm saying I can't equate them volunteering with reparations for slavery...….they weren't slaves. Kudos to them for fighting in a war their country started. It has absolutely nothing to do with reparations.
This isn't a problem of the past. Slavery begat police forces tasked with catching runaway slaves. That evolved slowly over time to the modern policing system we see today where a Black man laying on his back with his hands in the air gets shot by a racist cop.
A lot of the backlash toward the end of slavery took the form of trying to deny black people land rights. Guess what? Wells Fargo got in hot water two or three years back because they were giving worst interest rates to Black and Latino borrowers than they were their financially equivalent white counterparts. Can't own land w/o a mortgage, and if you go to the wrong bank, you can't get a fair rate on that loan if you're Black.
You know Turkey in the Straw? That fun song the ice cream truck plays? Look up the original minstrel show lyrics.
You know why Ben and Jamima are your uncle and aunt? Because racists couldn't handle calling Black people Mr and Mrs after the war ended. They used aunt and uncle instead.
I could go on, but suffice it to say that almost every aspect of modern racism has its roots in America's cultural and legal approach to slavery.
Also, regardless of when your family came here, we're all still currently, and actively using some pieces of infrastructure built by slaves, including the white house.
The idea that we should pretend we're talking about a problem that's completely over and done with is absurd.
You aren't going anywhere.
You are reading everything I post so you can try to counter it by calling me a racist.
You should stay...….you could use the education.
You are brainwashed by the media and the racist right...…...specifically racist white men.
I'm guessing you think Blacks don't skateboard? Just like they don't swim or camp either right?
I do not have a problem your points about the need for equality! I'm with you there that we still have a way to go there.
I do have a problem with anyone who thinks that they can just be paid off with money now- or that money would somehow satisfy anyone today for the misdeeds of the past!
Please point to the exact place where I stated money would satisfy for misdeeds of the past.
You're a reasonable person...….don't let the racist right fool you into thinking reparations = cutting Blacks a check.
Just curious, did you have a problem with the Italians, Indians and Houlocost survivors getting checks?