reparations?
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Started by tdx5000
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Dec 2005
tdx5000
oakland, CA
should we get them, how should they be administered?........and break
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indirect reparations
fund and update inner-city schools reformation programs, donate money to scholarship funds at HBCUs(which we ALL know are overworked and underfunded), implement building funds for the ghettos, knock down housing projects and instead build some Section 8 houses to give blacks who dont have much a jump start on having something
don't just hand someone 5000 dollars. cuz you KNOW they 're gonna spend it on stupid stuff. thats just people period.
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my sister's Miss Black n Gold question was related to this
she had to discuss did she think free college education was a equal and enough reparation for african americans..
that would be nice but people wouldnt act right. they still wouldnt go to school
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That's why it has to be more than just giving out scholarships and donating to HBCUs. They need to cover all bases. I was reading about how they're to crack down on programs geared towards getting minorities into careers that traditionally were like 99% white (like biomedical science)...like so many programs funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institute of Health (NIH) . They say it's reverse discrimination. I think that instead of trying to get rid of these programs.
They need to invest more money in them. Not just programs geared towards college students, but more well thought programs for adults to get them out of section 8...teach them skills that would be useful. Programs for young kids, get them while they're early.
I don't think reparations should be for individual black people. I think we should be compensated as a people for being a broken community & with a broken culture. Not necessarily the improvement of the person, but improvement of the people as a whole.
I think it's really inaccurate to compare African American life and struggle to those of other groups. What other group was displaced thousands of miles from their homeland, forced to forget where they came from and take on a new identity that most can't even understand? None that I can think of. You can say WWII was worse for Japanese or look at the Holocaust for Jews, both of those groups got some form of reperations for what happened to them (Japanese in internment camps in the U.S. did receive reperations for the way they were treated).
Blacks won't get reperation anytime soon because they don't know how to give it to us. I really think it's difficult for the U.S. gov't to look at how its passed actions have f*cked up and continue to f*ck up the black race. It's easy to say we should just get over it and build ourselves and move on but the truth of the matter is that the scars are too deep to just pick up and move on. We are a people who for the most part don't even know where the hell we came from. I've been to the national archives to look up family history and seen how unless your family kept a personal journal it's nearly impossible to go back past 4 generations or so. Blacks did begin to receive reparations directly following slavery( Reconstruction anyone) but we see what happened to that don't we? Had the U.S. gov't not disconitued all is was doing during Reconstruction I believe we would definately be in a adifferent place right now.
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LadyJag7 wrote:I think it's really inaccurate to compare African American life and struggle to those of other groups. What other group was displaced thousands of miles from their homeland, forced to forget where they came from and take on a new identity that most can't even understand? None that I can think of. You can say WWII was worse for Japanese or look at the Holocaust for Jews, both of those groups got some form of reperations for what happened to them (Japanese in internment camps in the U.S. did receive reperations for the way they were treated). Blacks won't get reperation anytime soon because they don't know how to give it to us. I really think it's difficult for the U.S. gov't to look at how its passed actions have f*cked up and continue to f*ck up the black race. It's easy to say we should just get over it and build ourselves and move on but the truth of the matter is that the scars are too deep to just pick up and move on. We are a people who for the most part don't even know where the hell we came from. I've been to the national archives to look up family history and seen how unless your family kept a personal journal it's nearly impossible to go back past 4 generations or so. Blacks did begin to receive reparations directly following slavery( Reconstruction anyone) but we see what happened to that don't we? Had the U.S. gov't not disconitued all is was doing during Reconstruction I believe we would definately be in a adifferent place right now.
