Should the US provide reparations for slavery and Jim Crow?

[JustAnotherGen]

30. Nope - Keep reading OP - I think you might like this ;-)

Based upon some of the responses - have a or two or three.

Nope.

But if there is ever a major 'social redistribution of wealth' as has been proposed in this election - if you were black on the 2010 census I proposed several times at DU you should be able to 'benefit' - but you and your children/descendents should remain at 2016 tax rates for 36 years. Fair is fair.

Makes up for the head start in the 'Raw Deal for Black Americans' aka the New Deal for White Americans where for 36 years white Americans got a head start. For black Americans that impacted our families in the here and now (my dad was born in 1941 - his parents at the turn of the last century) and it still resonates today.

It's why when I kept reading we 'need a New New Deal' at DU for several months I was going bonkers.

I understood the sentiment - but if you are a black American home owner who has put in thousands and thousands of dollars in a historic home that was beyond a shadow of a doubt a 'red lined' home -

All I heard was "you are going to sieze my home and give it to the poor white single mother" that Nye Bevan mentioned above. (I had a scaredy cat moment! )

Because I dunno - it makes things better for her - when she didn't earn it or work for it. Hmmm. Sound familiar?

Here's more 'familiar' . . . And truthfully - it's not "my fault her parents or grandparents didn't take advantage of FDR's money grab from all but distribution and access to opportunity for 'some' and were not able to hand down to her intergenerational wealth".


See black Americans can have the same attitude as white Americans. I.E.: It's not my problem what happened 10 years ago that put that white single mother in the position she is in. Or in 1980. Or in 1960. It's not fair to me that I should have my stuff taken to give it to her.

It kind of changes the narrative a bit - but hopefull it gave you (O.P.) a giggle