A local activist group, Brown Hope, wanted the event to be a space for people of color in a mostly white city to meet, organize, discuss public policy and potentially plan various actions.
The notion of full-scale reparations — sought by some as compensation for the horrors of slavery, Jim Crow and the large wealth gap between white and black U.S. households — was supported by 58 percent of black people and 46 percent of Hispanic people in a 2016poll.
However, 68 percent of white Americans do not support reparations; when the topic was brought up during the 2016 presidential campaign, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said it was “divisive” and unlikely to get through Congress.
The economist Robert Browne once estimated a fair value for reparations of $1.4 trillion to $4.7 trillion and wrote that reparations should ''restore the black community to the economic position it would have had if it had not been subjected to slavery and discrimination.''
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22 comments:
Liberals want to start a civil war.
As I white male, I will not in any way make ‘reperations’ of any sort - they can all go jump in a lake
Unbelievable, simply unbelievable. This sham is just another version of a HANDOUT and we cower to it with the label of RACIST.
BS as far as I'm concerned, as I sit here watching the holiday vacationers travel over the Route 90 bridge. Good riddance and I hope you loved the rainy weather!
Next up - JUNE BUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No thank you. Their drinks have been paid for by us every since I can remember. As a white privileged citizen I don't want them buying my drinks either. So...let's make a deal, you buy your drink and I will buy mine.
Women should make the same demands and they came willingly and were considered property with no rights or vote until they wised up. Worked bore children often dying doing so and ran households very much like slaves risking their lives perhaps to a greater degree than men did and mended and nurse the maimed in our conflicts and were institutional in the abolitionist movement and in the support of what we have come to consider "Great Men " of our Democracy . Those enslaved have to realize someone always sold them into it. The Portuguese traders did not chase down and capture these slaves. Their own sold them away for baubles LOL great African kings as greedy then as they are now.
Fact .....
Blacks were sold by there own people to the English and brought to America so go find your ancestor and charge them.
I guess the bar didn’t take foodstamps.
Sure, I'm buying, as long Jim Jones is tending bar.
My family immigrated here legally in 1868. We had nothing to do with slavery. However, I have watched property values drop considerably when blacks moved into our neighborhood time and time again and destroyed their homes. I think they owe me reparations. Lol
As long as Rachel Dolezal gets her fair share.
Always with the hands out.....
3:08 PM, or every white person who claims they are black or pretending to be black. Rachel Dolezal and Elizabeth Warren are a joke. They will be the first in line. I don't know why we continue to speak about reparations. Who in America have pure Angelo Saxon blood or pure Black African American Blood. No one. Therefore, blacks nor white qualify for reparations and the Federal Government knows this. Maybe the Millennial can get this reparations rolling.
America didn't start slavery it ended it, Slavery was brought here...Where is my reparations from England and Africa for bringing the scourge here ?
Black Lives Matter!!
Where's my purple drank?
It is migrated not immigrated here.
Do some homework concerning Slavery. The South made billions of dollars off of Slavery. That's why it sucks down here. So much hatred in the south
Must have been a business that didn't know how to play the EBT card game??? White folks couldn't be there because they were all working!
I don't effin think so.
Since blacks aren't happy in this country I will be glad to pay my fair share to ship them back to Africa and the middle eastern desserts.
They can take any liberal they want with them.
Can you imagine the savings in taxes we will reap when they are gone.
When pigs fly
Anonymous said...
Since blacks aren't happy in this country I will be glad to pay my fair share to ship them back to Africa and the middle eastern desserts.
They can take any liberal they want with them.
Can you imagine the savings in taxes we will reap when they are gone.
June 3, 2018 at 5:39 PM
I'm with you brother. Where do I sign up?
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