Ta-Nehisi Coates: Why Precisely Is Bernie Sanders Against Reparations?

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107. Can you show me definitive proof since the early 1800's that all have?

No, because it is a ridiculous rubric and impossible to quantify. And if you can not quantify it, you can not reasonably do it.

Stop being silly. We knew exactly how many and who were put in to the Japanese Internment Camps. Therefore, we could quantify it. The number was significantly smaller than what we are talking about her with AA, bi-racials, mulattos, etc.

You and Coates are very wrong, and that is part of your problem. Sanders is not a candidate of partisanship or radicalism. His stances are hardly radical. Most of the economic ones center one what the New Deal was and Democrats supported until the DLC Clintons in the 1990's. His actions as mayor and in congress show a man who is quite capable of unification. His entire message is that if we all succeed, the US succeeds. If we all have economic and social justice, then all of us benefit. His revolution is not necessarily about a new set of ideas or positions, rather it is a return to what the Democratic Party stood for again before the Clinton DLC take-over in the 1980's and 1990's.

Finally 'reparations' are hardly revolutionary. Black radicals and nationalists have been vocal about them for over a hundred years. Even if we gave every damned AA, bi-racial, mulatto, etc. $20,000, it would not change the drug war, the police violence, the lack of education, the lack of jobs, etc. It would be no different than a Bush take refund. As a bi-racial man, I support Sander's revolution to bring jobs back our communities. I support an end to police violence. I support social and economic justice. And like West, Killer Mike and Nina Turner, I support this type of change, not some damned reparations that will never work for so many different reasons.

That you, Coates, and others consider reparations to even be remotely equal to all of the other issues that Sanders is pushing for shows me how shallow your support for real change in the AA communities really is.