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    Quote Originally Posted by Bourbon View Post
    The ones crying are the entitlement minded blacks and guilt ridden white trash demanding reparations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    black Americans are not asking for reparations watermark


    stop pretending to speak for them
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    which black American groups are asking for reparations asshole


    this is my first post in this thread

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    which black American organizations are asking for reparations?
    https://policy.m4bl.org/reparations/

    And it's not just black organizations.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.6d0934571452

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    ASKING
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    1st link Post #50

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    The ones crying are the entitlement minded blacks and guilt ridden white trash demanding reparations.
    Never met one in my entire life, maybe you should think about moving to a better location.
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    BLM has reparations as a plank in the their platform. John Conyers introduce legislation every new congress to study reparations. Leading black intellectual Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote The Case For Reparations in The Atlantic. A recent U.N. report said America should pay reparations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bourbon View Post
    Never met one in my entire life, maybe you should think about moving to a better location.
    Me, neither. However, that's not necessary in order for them to exist. Are you claiming they don't exist because you've never personally met one?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    BLM has reparations as a plank in the their platform. John Conyers introduce legislation every new congress to study reparations. Leading black intellectual Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote The Case For Reparations in The Atlantic. A recent U.N. report said America should pay reparations.
    The U.N. proposal - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.609e5a088e94

    The black call for reparations - https://policy.m4bl.org/reparations/

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    the "reparations" they are calling for will effect all poor people


    did you note that

    They are NOT calling for just black Americans to be benefiting


    they are asking fixes that are not race specific

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    the "reparations" they are calling for will effect all poor people


    did you note that

    They are NOT calling for just black Americans to be benefiting


    they are asking fixes that are not race specific
    They don't read that and they don't care, they just like Bitching and Whining about Black People because they're feeling marginalized; as if they've done anything in their lives to make themselves superior.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BlackLivesMatter View Post
    The Case for Reparations

    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...ations/361631/

    And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing today.

    — deuteronomy 15: 12–15

    Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man so far becomes degenerate, and declares himself to quit the principles of human nature, and to be a noxious creature, there is commonly injury done to some person or other, and some other man receives damage by his transgression: in which case he who hath received any damage, has, besides the right of punishment common to him with other men, a particular right to seek reparation.

    — john locke, “second treatise”

    By our unpaid labor and suffering, we have earned the right to the soil, many times over and over, and now we are determined to have it.

    — anonymous, 1861

    Listen to the audio version of this article:Feature stories, read aloud: download the Audm app for your iPhone.

    I. “So That’s Just One Of My Losses”
    Clyde ross was born in 1923, the seventh of 13 children, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, the home of the blues. Ross’s parents owned and farmed a 40-acre tract of land, flush with cows, hogs, and mules. Ross’s mother would drive to Clarksdale to do her shopping in a horse and buggy, in which she invested all the pride one might place in a Cadillac. The family owned another horse, with a red coat, which they gave to Clyde. The Ross family wanted for little, save that which all black families in the Deep South then desperately desired—the protection of the law.


    Clyde Ross, photographed in November 2013 in his home in the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, where he has lived for more than 50 years. When he first tried to get a legitimate mortgage, he was denied; mortgages were effectively not available to black people. (Carlos Javier Ortiz)
    In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy. The majority of the people in the state were perpetually robbed of the vote—a hijacking engineered through the trickery of the poll tax and the muscle of the lynch mob. Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in Mississippi than in any other state. “You and I know what’s the best way to keep the nigger from voting,” blustered Theodore Bilbo, a Mississippi senator and a proud Klansman. “You do it the night before the election.”

    The state’s regime partnered robbery of the franchise with robbery of the purse. Many of Mississippi’s black farmers lived in debt peonage, under the sway of cotton kings who were at once their landlords, their employers, and their primary merchants. Tools and necessities were advanced against the return on the crop, which was determined by the employer. When farmers were deemed to be in debt—and they often were—the negative balance was then carried over to the next season. A man or woman who protested this arrangement did so at the risk of grave injury or death. Refusing to work meant arrest under vagrancy laws and forced labor under the state’s penal system.

    Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had. In her 2010 book, The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson tells the story of Eddie Earvin, a spinach picker who fled Mississippi in 1963, after being made to work at gunpoint. “You didn’t talk about it or tell nobody,” Earvin said. “You had to sneak away.”

    “Some of the land taken from black families has become a country club in Virginia,” the AP reported.
    When Clyde Ross was still a child, Mississippi authorities claimed his father owed $3,000 in back taxes. The elder Ross could not read. He did not have a lawyer. He did not know anyone at the local courthouse. He could not expect the police to be impartial. Effectively, the Ross family had no way to contest the claim and no protection under the law. The authorities seized the land. They seized the buggy. They took the cows, hogs, and mules. And so for the upkeep of separate but equal, the entire Ross family was reduced to sharecropping.

    This was hardly unusual. In 2001, the Associated Press published a three-part investigation into the theft of black-owned land stretching back to the antebellum period. The series documented some 406 victims and 24,000 acres of land valued at tens of millions of dollars. The land was taken through means ranging from legal chicanery to terrorism. “Some of the land taken from black families has become a country club in Virginia,” the AP reported, as well as “oil fields in Mississippi” and “a baseball spring training facility in Florida.”

    Clyde Ross was a smart child. His teacher thought he should attend a more challenging school. There was very little support for educating black people in Mississippi. But Julius Rosenwald, a part owner of Sears, Roebuck, had begun an ambitious effort to build schools for black children throughout the South. Ross’s teacher believed he should attend the local Rosenwald school. It was too far for Ross to walk and get back in time to work in the fields. Local white children had a school bus. Clyde Ross did not, and thus lost the chance to better his education.

    Then, when Ross was 10 years old, a group of white men demanded his only childhood possession—the horse with the red coat. “You can’t have this horse. We want it,” one of the white men said. They gave Ross’s father $17.

    “I did everything for that horse,” Ross told me. “Everything. And they took him. Put him on the racetrack. I never did know what happened to him after that, but I know they didn’t bring him back. So that’s just one of my losses.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    the "reparations" they are calling for will effect all poor people


    did you note that

    They are NOT calling for just black Americans to be benefiting


    they are asking fixes that are not race specific
    How about poor people doing something to help themselves instead of demanding someone else do it for them?

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