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19. The case for reparations isn't just about chattel slavery.....

Tue Sep 13, 2022, 05:27 PM

Sep 2022

"THE CASE FOR REPARATIONS
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

By Ta-Nehisi Coates"

If you're interested, it's a great read. Here's the link for you: https://www.theatlantic.com

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I've never "gotten it" about reparations for slavery and such. [View all] grumpyduck Sep 2022 OP

Post removed Post removed Sep 2022 #1

That reply was totally uncalled for. grumpyduck Sep 2022 #3

You are correct! patricia92243 Sep 2022 #5

Additionally that user wasn't helping at all. The internet is full of shitty info put up by lying emulatorloo Sep 2022 #7

Some people tend to forget that... WarGamer Sep 2022 #26

I think the concept is that the original injury of slavery deprived people Ocelot II Sep 2022 #2

And obvious cases continue well into the last century wryter2000 Sep 2022 #8

What tipped my thinking was learning that a couple of Southern states were actually black-majority.. Girard442 Sep 2022 #4

Here are the sources I used to understand the issue Torchlight Sep 2022 #6

Thank you happybird Sep 2022 #14

Also, How to Be An Antiracist, by Ibram Kendi. yardwork Sep 2022 #49

I've always thought of it not so much Demobrat Sep 2022 #9

Yes, this nt Unwind Your Mind Sep 2022 #44

Thank you to the previous few posters. grumpyduck Sep 2022 #10

I think Ocelot's is a good post too. It succinctly states the complex reason. Scrivener7 Sep 2022 #12

Yeah, I started off writing "the previous three posters," grumpyduck Sep 2022 #15

Good question, though. I think your lack of clarity on the goal of reparations is shared by Scrivener7 Sep 2022 #16

. WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2022 #11

Kick and rec, you are getting a lot of good replies and information. emulatorloo Sep 2022 #13

How far do we go back? Or are there privelleged/protected classes of people? TheRealNorth Sep 2022 #17

It depends on what you mean by "we." Straw Man Sep 2022 #30

There is a qualitative difference between being economically exploited and enslaved. meadowlander Sep 2022 #32

The best arguments are that slavery and the many decades of discrimination that followed Just A Box Of Rain Sep 2022 #18

The case for reparations isn't just about chattel slavery..... spicysista Sep 2022 #19

This is the best primer, right here; a great place for anyone to start, especially if they don't WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2022 #20

Mr. Coates makes the case in a very accessible way. spicysista Sep 2022 #24

Yes! That article taught me so much! femmedem Sep 2022 #35

John Conyers' bill on reparations, introduced 30 years ago, is now being discussed in Congress Rhiannon12866 Sep 2022 #21

The reparations were supposed to be forty acres and a mule which they never received. DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2022 #22

Would you be open to a couple of book recommendations? ismnotwasm Sep 2022 #23

My own family history helps me understand it. femmedem Sep 2022 #25

The problem is that it wasn't addressed 200 years ago maxrandb Sep 2022 #27

Our allegiance to that which is right, correct, and proper,... ... magicarpet Sep 2022 #28

Recommending the responses to this post unweird Sep 2022 #29

Post removed Post removed Sep 2022 #31

Hey, that's not worthy of you. femmedem Sep 2022 #34

because I know what the deal is Skittles Sep 2022 #36

+1 MrsCoffee Sep 2022 #42

Interesting Brenda Sep 2022 #33

THANK YOU Skittles Sep 2022 #37

How does this help? Zeitghost Sep 2022 #47

It doesn't and it's uncalled for. nt MarineCombatEngineer Sep 2022 #48

This is a ForgedCrank Sep 2022 #38

It's not a problem direct cash payments can fix madville Sep 2022 #39

"slavery and such"? Jesus, man. (nt) FreepFryer Sep 2022 #40

No fucking shit! Brenda Sep 2022 #41

+1 MrsCoffee Sep 2022 #43

Can you elaborate on "and such"? likesmountains 52 Sep 2022 #45

The problem with direct reparation payments Zeitghost Sep 2022 #46

US Federal Gov **DID** pay reparations already !!! ... to the slave masters uponit7771 Sep 2022 #50