Comments on: Slavery Reparations Gaining Momentum?

By: Devon

Devon — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:42:36 +0000

Ok.
I see what you all have been talking about and you all have very different opinions and I agree with some of you, and I disagree with some of you. I am half black, half cuban, but in reality Cubans were african’s brought over to Cuba and were taught how to speak Spanish, so i’m black.
Now when it is said that African Americans deserve reparations I agree. Not saying that blacks deserve like Rolex’ s and Mercedes Benz’. I’m just saying that everyone, including blacks, jews, native americans and whites just deserve repsect. That’s all I want.
I have to come to terms with the fact that I will always have to work twice as hard as any white man, because i’m a black/latina female and I always will be, but just to make my life a little easier, I deserve respect from everyone.

By: john

john — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:43:27 +0000

CTK,

your point is taken, and few disregard that a debt is owed to African Americans in this country. A good portion of social barriers have been dropped in America, the problem with reparations is that the sheer magnitude of that task would be ridiculous. What the African American reparation crowd should be looking for is a series of ways in which a kind of reparation could benefit African Americans through grants and scholarship funds for education to help African Americans in the future. I do not believe that a fifty dollar check to every african american in American would benefit anyone except for the merchants of greed and neglect that hover around the deprived african american communities in America that need the benefits that some type of Reparations program could offer. Sink it into K-12 education programs to help to curb some of the deficits that exist in struggling urban and rural communities. Reparations aren’t so much repulsive as an idea, but reviled as a literal commandment.

By: ctkyahoo

ctkyahoo — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:20:28 +0000

It is so sad to me to see how upset white people get when the very thought of giving blacks a penny is raised. No one complains or goes of the edge when we assist thousands of people around the world simply because it would serve some political agenda all the while making sure as to leave thousands of black in Katrina destitute. The African people of this world, much far beyond America have been the most degraded, humiliated, and depressed people in the history of mankind ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“I challenge anyone to find a people that has been through as much as we on a global levelÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬?they have treated animals better than us. Countless historical documentation of this brutality is of abundance at your libraries. We have been in every sense of the world written off and de-prioritized. If it were not for the slave that so many quickly forget there would be no America the beautiful or whatever the powers that be decide to call it when it serves their purpose. It is true, we are owed monetary amounts. It is the principle that the white man has developed of debt to credit ratio. When you work you must be paid and when you owe someone and they are no longer living then their heir IS the primary beneficiary-they made the rules not us and it is so convenient that when it no longer serves their purpose they want to tell us to go back to Africa. We as a people will not and are not going anywhere so white America, you can get that out of your heads. When you move to the moon, weÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢ll be right behind youÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â¦LOL! I WANT BLACK PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO ME whom ever and wherever you areÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬?let them have their money, I know, its not easy, we are a prideful people, you can trace that back to the hieroglyphs carved into the walls in ancient Egypt. We gave birth to the world –their scientists know that as a fact! Let them have there money, we are worth far more than that. Who we are and what we are can never be quantified. For it is far easier for a camel to get through the eye of needle than it is for a rich man to proceed into the gates of heaven and this is from the Bible that they covet as so called Christians.

By: Think Christian » Blog Archive » The Church, Racism, and Historical Injustice

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:09:14 +0000

[...] I learn from Camassia that this is International Blog Against Racism Week. The Washington Post recently reported that two Christian denominations are addressing their own church histories of racism (via Donklephant). The Episcopal Church and the Moravian Church both have apologized for owning slaves and are reflecting on how to address ongoing racial inequities. The Episcopalians are also considering compensation for their black members to make amends for the church’s slaveholding bishops and the financial benefit it received from slavery. [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:14:42 +0000

Jimmy – Ghana’s per capita GDP is $2,500. The average income for black households is $30,000. The average black household size is about 2.5. So you’re likely making 5 times as much as you would in Ghana. Your ancestors’ loss is your gain.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:06:03 +0000

I’m with rob. All of you – get the hell off my land. :)

By: wj

wj — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:05:22 +0000

If you dig back far enough, pretty much everybody is descended from someone who did bad things to others. And from somebody who was ill done to. I certainly am. (If not, perhaps, as visibly as Jimmy.)

So everybody cut out the middleman and write themselves a check.

By: rob

rob — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:52:25 +0000

If blacks get reparations, then of course native americans should. So we would have to give back the entire U.S.

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:38:27 +0000

Hey, I think the reparations crowd has a point. As a half black/half white man, I think I should be forced to pay reparations to myself. Also, I demand that the people of Ghana and Nigeria be forced to pay reparations for their role in selling my ancestors to Dutch slave-traders. Oh, and that reminds me; someone get the Dutch ambassador on the phone, we shouldn’t let them off easily either.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:29:04 +0000

Ditto.

What’s done is done. Make all the heart-felt apologies and show all the genuine remorse that is humanly possible, but reparations are a terrible idea.

By: itsamarycle

itsamarycle — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:02:58 +0000

It’s not just you(!)