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Rex

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5. Never happen, the South would go bonkers.

Fri Feb 19, 2016, 04:42 PM

Feb 2016

IMO, reparations should have happened back during the civil rights movement and now should be done with compound interest included.

And while we are at it, I think we owe a few more groups some reparations...is it that hard for white men to swallow that murderous pride for at least 5 seconds? No? I can, but I don't count for anything.

Never happen, though it is long overdue imo.

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Hope for reparations? [View all] loyalsister Feb 2016 OP

Nobody will be pushing reparations; not even Bernie Sanders. brooklynite Feb 2016 #1

Maybe not reparations but I bet he would agree with the argument. nt Live and Learn Feb 2016 #3

Except he is pushing the model outlined in the video loyalsister Feb 2016 #4

So the folks in Appalachia are out of luck? brooklynite Feb 2016 #6

Actually no loyalsister Feb 2016 #9

I thought the reparatation arguments were ridiculous but this guy makes a valid argument. Live and Learn Feb 2016 #2

Never happen, the South would go bonkers. Rex Feb 2016 #5

This benefits white southerners loyalsister Feb 2016 #7

I meant the racist republican south. Rex Feb 2016 #10

Well, it has happened in a different context in N. Carolina loyalsister Feb 2016 #11

Holyshit, forced sterilization? Rex Feb 2016 #12

Sad period in Va's history. The Nazi's actually came to Virginia to study the FSogol Feb 2016 #13

I've never heard of that, forced sterilization and that was my first thought. Rex Feb 2016 #14

VA sterilized the mentally ill, the disabled, lots of black folks, habitual drug FSogol Feb 2016 #17

That is so haunting. I just don't even know how to process it. myrna minx Feb 2016 #16

It is hard to believe we do that to ourselves. Rex Feb 2016 #19

It makes me want to cry. myrna minx Feb 2016 #21

That is a compassonate response, I would worry about the person that Rex Feb 2016 #22

I'll get to anger - but I need to digest the horror first. myrna minx Feb 2016 #25

The SC ruling that enabled it has not been reversed loyalsister Feb 2016 #23

Good God that looks like something out of Mien Kampf! Rex Feb 2016 #26

As a matter of fact, it was the precursor loyalsister Feb 2016 #27

How interesting, America closes the door to their Eugenics Department in 1939. Rex Feb 2016 #28

It's chilling loyalsister Feb 2016 #30

I am afraid all the way, our history is a shining example as to what we will do to each other. Rex Feb 2016 #32

They are terrifying loyalsister Feb 2016 #34

I've heard a lot about American History X, but only seem parts and snippets. Rex Feb 2016 #36

It's hard to watch but the substance is worth it loyalsister Feb 2016 #40

It is past due and on the other side we have a group of fanatics. Rex Feb 2016 #46

Forced sterilization was not the only way they kept people jwirr Feb 2016 #38

Marriage restrictions and the one drop rule were a part of that too loyalsister Feb 2016 #48

Some times the modern suggestions for solving our problems jwirr Feb 2016 #49

Oh my god. That took my breath away. myrna minx Feb 2016 #15

Sorry, the past can be a pretty terrible thing. n/t FSogol Feb 2016 #18

The barbarity and cruelty is just so...shocking myrna minx Feb 2016 #20

Sorry :( loyalsister Feb 2016 #29

It's important - It should never be forgotten - myrna minx Feb 2016 #31

Reparations would be the worst thing to happen to blacks in this country in a long time. Marr Feb 2016 #8

Yeah, more jobs, education, and economic development in black communities spells nothing but trouble loyalsister Feb 2016 #24

No, all that is great. Marr Feb 2016 #45

Here is the text of the argument he made loyalsister Feb 2016 #47

How about reparations from the oligarchs... Lizzie Poppet Feb 2016 #33

"the rest of us?" loyalsister Feb 2016 #35

If you watch the video, you will hear the speaker address this. femmedem Feb 2016 #39

The idea of reparations has always interested me but I don't jwirr Feb 2016 #37

It doesn't have to be a matter of who so much as where and how. femmedem Feb 2016 #41

I like that. It would mean that my family probably would jwirr Feb 2016 #43

The beauty of this model is that it's focus is on the present loyalsister Feb 2016 #42

Yes. And as I said above I like this idea. jwirr Feb 2016 #44