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jwirr

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37. The idea of reparations has always interested me but I don't

Fri Feb 19, 2016, 08:58 PM

Feb 2016

think the idea is a controversial as WHO would receive them.

The black ancestors in my family (several different lines) do not come from southern slavery. Mr. Bongo was brought to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan by a British soldier. Both him and his wife remained slaves for the remainder of their life but their children married into the native tribes of Michigan and Minnesota. They were no longer counted as slaves. Instead they were counted in the native census rolls.

And I am sure that there other cases like this - how are people like this man and his family going to be counted in the idea of reparations?

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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