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9. Inform yourself. Read Ta-Nehisi's landmark article on reparations

Reply to Lance Bass esquire (Reply #4)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 09:02 PM

Jul 2016

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

Then get back to us.

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are we ready for reparations? [View all] reddread Jul 2016 OP

The peeps who deserved reparations died a hundred years ago. Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #1

You mean the peeps who keep getting blasted by police? brush Jul 2016 #3

This. Silver_Witch Jul 2016 #29

Thank you so much for the link OhioBlue Jul 2016 #40

Yep +100 840high Jul 2016 #31

damn right I'm ready and not just for slavery reparations but jim crow reparations too. craigmatic Jul 2016 #2

LOL...let me know how that works out for you. n/t Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #4

the LOL reddread Jul 2016 #6

LOL Thank You! n/t Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #8

Inform yourself. Read Ta-Nehisi's landmark article on reparations brush Jul 2016 #9

I've read it. I still say no to reparations. Unless you can find some slaves who are 150 yrs. old. Waldorf Jul 2016 #10

So hundreds of years of stolen labor means nothing to you? brush Jul 2016 #11

One side of my family got here way after the war... citood Jul 2016 #30

Not that complicated, nor entirely unprecedented brush Jul 2016 #35

I'm sure I am more familiar with the Dawes Rolls than you citood Jul 2016 #41

i would have no problem with my tax dollars going for reparations . and my family got here 100 or so JI7 Jul 2016 #47

Well, that makes you a philantropist citood Jul 2016 #52

i have no problem paying any of that JI7 Jul 2016 #55

I did and like I said Let me know how that works out for you. Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #12

Just curious what ethnic group you are? brush Jul 2016 #17

Jews were justly paid reparations by Germany. Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #18

Post removed Post removed Jul 2016 #19

Are you really publishing a link to a Holocaust denial site? Joe the Revelator Jul 2016 #23

Not my intention. Just trying inform a poster that Germany reparations to Jewish . . . brush Jul 2016 #37

By using a holocaust denial site, you're not really disproving his point Joe the Revelator Jul 2016 #39

I only have first hand expierience..growing up with the few Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #26

this 840high Jul 2016 #32

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Your family deserves compensation also. brush Jul 2016 #38

I have truly seen it all now. An actual live link to IHR neo nazis on DU AntiBank Jul 2016 #34

Regarding Japanese Americans Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2016 #20

That's it? That's all you have to say without backing it up? brush Jul 2016 #22

Says the person posting links for a holocaust denial site. Joe the Revelator Jul 2016 #24

Backing it up? Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2016 #27

LOL You owe me a new keyboard! Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #28

Send me the invoice! Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2016 #46

Germany has repeatedly rejected reparations for descendents of the Herero and Namaqua genocide Chathamization Jul 2016 #43

Your sincerity is suspect. nt LexVegas Jul 2016 #5

for no particular reason I presume? reddread Jul 2016 #7

I'd imagine simply due to the consistency of narrative in your posts. LanternWaste Jul 2016 #54

You do understand that in History, Arab and African merchants were the greatest enslavers? Albertoo Jul 2016 #13

No. n/t X_Digger Jul 2016 #14

Do Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson get checks? (nt) Nye Bevan Jul 2016 #15

I agree that the time for reparations has long passed. SheilaT Jul 2016 #16

Medicare is partially "means tested" now 1939 Jul 2016 #49

That's true. I'd forgotten, despite the fact that my first year on Medicare SheilaT Jul 2016 #53

Depends on what you mean by reparations, but I'm open to talking about different options aikoaiko Jul 2016 #21

Great Society???? NT 1939 Jul 2016 #50

We have to give the country back LuvNewcastle Jul 2016 #25

Stop calling us Indians. We aren't from India. cherokeeprogressive Jul 2016 #45

My ex preferred to be called an Indian, LuvNewcastle Jul 2016 #51

I don't think reparations will ever be passed in the US--but maybe, just maybe they could stop tblue37 Jul 2016 #33

reparations will never be paid, but you knew that already AntiBank Jul 2016 #36

No(nt) jack_krass Jul 2016 #42

I am! You fucking bet! MY ancestors owned this WHOLE FUCKING CONTINENT. cherokeeprogressive Jul 2016 #44

For who? What group? JustAnotherGen Jul 2016 #48

Start a GoFundMe Acct. greytdemocrat Jul 2016 #56