UN Report: US Owes Black People Reparations for a History of "Racial Terrorism"

[JCricket]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

You need to read up on TANF. Welfare as you know it ended, back in the Bill Clinton administration.

Thank you and will do!!!

[Tom Joad]

Wait!

Didn't we already give them 40 acres and a Mule?

That should have covered it.

[merrylander]

We probably should start at the bottom, free college is not much use if K-12 is done in poor schools. And to benefit from better schoos we should stop using children like coal mine canaries to detect the presence of lead in their environment. Dear God there are so many things needing change where do we start? I suppose the place to start can be found in our mirrors.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by merrylander

We probably should start at the bottom, free college is not much use if K-12 is done in poor schools. And to benefit from better schoos we should stop using children like coal mine canaries to detect the presence of lead in their environment. Dear God there are so many things needing change where do we start? I suppose the place to start can be found in our mirrors.

Brilliant post.

[donquixote99]

+1 to that, merrylander.

[Grumpy]

Are the tribes in Africa going to pay as well. They sold many of these slaves to the traders. Easy for the UN to say what "we" should do, specially if they are not the ones paying.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Grumpy

Are the tribes in Africa going to pay as well. They sold many of these slaves to the traders. Easy for the UN to say what "we" should do, specially if they are not the ones paying.

Ah, they're to blame too! As I posted elsewhere, shouldn't we blame the slaves?

And as I posted here already:

Reparations is a bad word. Pisses people off. People think the moral blame for slavery, and lynchings, is landing on them, and they haven't enslaved or lynched anyone.

But people are still dying, and it's still because of history that won't die. If you don't want the blame, then fine, not many ever have. You're in the good majority.

But the potential for hate is inside each of us. It's just human. And if you think now that the people who say 'black lives matter' are wrong, you are part of the problem.

It will never end, until we decide to make an end. And that means going ahead and taking some of the blame, whoever you are, and whether you think you deserve it or not.

[nailer]

Thing is, many of the problems that afflict us are unsolvable.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by nailer

Thing is, many of the problems that afflict us are unsolvable.

So, why even try!

[nailer]

Why not?