Virtue SignalingWhite people to be charged $50 in 'reparations' for Seattle Pride

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[–]Preachy_Jerk 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I'm not a lawyer, but if you're going to make a claim for damages, don't you need to prove that a) there was a duty of care and b) you yourself were harmed?

Did early Americans have a duty to free from bondage all those enslaved in pre-colonial African slave societies? No, of course not. Most of them would have been enslaved either way.

Have today's black Americans been harmed by the boat ride their ancestors were forced to take? No, they are far wealthier, healthier and better educated than the descendants of the enslaved Africans who were not brought to America.

[–]hufflepuff-poet 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Just because African Americans in the US have a better quality of life than our counterparts in Africa doesn't mean we don't feel the lasting impacts from slavery and Jim Crow/segregation which only "officially" ended during my mom's lifetime and I'm in my late 20s. Racism is alive and well in America, especially anti-Blackness.

There are some good arguments for Reparations to the Black community out there despite this TRA nonsense. This article from the Atlantic is a good intro to the subject, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

[–]usehername 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Do you support reparations in the form of handing out checks or infrastructure reform?

[–]hufflepuff-poet 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

A mix of both, I support heavy infrastructure investment in Black communities and historically Black institutions (mainly thinking of colleges and universities), and also direct payments to African Americans.

[–]usehername 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Do historically black colleges and unis need the money? I'm not trying to troll I just was under the impression that universities in the U.S. are wealthy because going there is so expensive. Also, how will you determine what is a black community? An area with a certain percentage of black people? I think it would be better and easier to just focus on low-income communities in general for this reason, other than native communities which are obviously easy to pinpoint. I just don't think checks are a good idea. They get their money and then what? It's spent. Especially with low-income people the money will just disappear. How big of a check are you thinking?

I definitely support improving schools in low-income areas and childcare and scholarship programs. Also a ton of work needs to be done for natives. Reservations are a mess because they can't get permission from the U.S. govt. to build infrastructure on reservations so they're without roads, electricity, water, don't even have towns. Plus their money is hoarded by corrupt leaders.

[–]BEB 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not being facetious because I myself am mixed-race (but not with African), but how would you propose reparations to mixed-race AAs, which, I've read, many, if not most, African-Americans are?

Would amount of reparation be decided by African DNA % given that most slave history was erased so for some people it would be hard to find proof of ancestors who were slaves?