Black People can't be racist

Here's a pretty good primer on the issues relating to reparations:

http://www.crf-usa.org/brown-v-board-50th-anniversary/reparations-for-slavery-reading.html

 

So if you pay out reparations to people with relatives who were slaves, do you pay out reparations to Native Americans?

 

But that's my point. Your response to my story wasn't empathetic at all. You simply respond with it happens to everyone and here's my story. That doesn't bring us together. So when you say people like you and I need to come together to stop it, the way you go about it is counterproductive.

 

White privilege doesn't mean you didn't have to work for what you have. It has never meant that.

 

There's no way the first black president could, would, or should give reparations. That would have to be a White person at the helm. Conversely we don't want them anyway. We simply want equal opportunity. Unfortunately, that is the hardest thing to achieve.

 

No it's a dive bar that has decent food. Ran by idiots. There's no reason to go. Lol. I was gonna say if you'd been there you may have seen me there DJ'ing and running karaoke.

 

This post just made MarAzul's head explode.

 

I'm sure you're right with respect to its accepted meaning in the discussion of black issues in this country. I suspect that for a sizable portion of the white population hearing black people talk about white privilege, that thought is front and center. Sometimes being "privileged" doesn't seem all that privileged when you're struggling to make ends meet and feeling like the system has never cut you much of a break either. Doesn't mean that there still isn't privilege relative to the black community, but it needs to be borne in mind when discussing the topic.

 

How do you figure? Reparations is a nice thought, but it doesn't magically fix everything. How many of the millions of blacks in the United States can prove direct relation to slavery? What about the rest of black Americans? What about the other people that could use a leg up?

Honestly, do you think reparations would do more for this country than spending trillions on infrastructure, education, and jobs? Give a man a fish and you feed him for a night, teach him to fish etc etc etc?

 

Hawaiians are supposed to get 5 acres but it takes supposedly 99 years to get it and in the meantime, the land is leased to golf courses, hotels, etc....There are a lot of homeless Hawaiians who have not benefited from their 5 acres and maybe, their great grandchildren will get them someday

 

Uhhhh maybe because it had nothing to do with the Irish there buddy.

 

I believe the first place to start working on race equality is at the very foundation, our schools.

Until equal numbers of each race complete high school, and also all levels of college, equality in the workplace, income, and personal wealth will never happen.

I do not have a clue how to fix our schools to make that happen.

 

I think reparations are fair. I think the folks who bought and owned slaves for 3 centuries here are responsible for making things right..3 centuries of slave.ry..also the african slave traders who sold them to the merchants for 14 centuries are as responsible if not more responsible.

 

It's completely preposterous for taxpayers today to pay for reparations.

 

I think it's fair if families that owned and profited from slavery paid reparations to each slave decent they were responsible for enslaving. I don't have an answer but like Denny said, we spend money on some really useless shit that doesn't help us here on the homefront all the time. I don't have an answer for this problem. We made steps in the Native American treaties we've broken over the course of history but not all of them for sure.