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Yeah, the point should always have been explicitly to be reparations for slavery/Jim Crow and the Native American genocide. But that was never really explicit,
by earthboundkid 3y ago
Yeah, the point should always have been explicitly to be reparations for slavery/Jim Crow and the Native American genocide. But that was never really explicit, and there was a lot of mission drift over the last fifty years.
- prpl 3y agoand redlining, and other formal, informal, intentional and unintentional institutional (particularly governmental and financial) policies that limited people’s access to success based on their race.
- pessimizer 3y agoAnything explicitly discriminatory that the government could have done something about and chose not to. We need to forget about "microaggressions" and deal with the macroaggressions. It's typical that white liberals have embarked on the project of detecting subtle clues to the slightest slights and condemning people for them, when they should just treat historical race-based abuse claims like any other compensation claim. If you look at black people's family trees enough, you'll find plenty with specific inheritance claims against their white, slaver ancestors. Black people in America are the descendants of white rapists as well as imported slaves.
- earthboundkid 3y agoYes. I was sort of lumping redlining in with Jim Crow, although I guess it's technically a distinct thing.
- giardini 3y agoYes, and generations have passed, so that train has left the station, so to speak. Reparations are no longer an acceptable solution.
- mrguyorama 3y agoAnd yet the grandkids of those slave owners sure as hell still profit from their ill gotten gains
- BobbyJo 3y ago> And yet the grandkids of those slave owners sure as hell still profit from their ill gotten gains. Source? I'd venture to guess most have reverted back to mean wealth given downward mobility rates [0] and the time since slavery ended. [0] https://www.chicagofed.org/research/mobility/intergenerational-economic-mobility https://www.chicagofed.org/research/mobility/intergeneration...
- Alupis 3y agoNot to mention so very few families owned slaves back in the day. The way people talk, you'd think everyone had slaves - no, that was a very small minority of ultra-wealthy people. What about people who's families immigrated here post-slavery? Their tax money has to pay reparations too? Reparations is a non-starter. Any discussion or endeavor to push for reparations is a naked attempt to buy votes with lies.
- QuarterReptile 3y agoIt's probably a reliable collective action problem. For example, the point of the 1965 Civil Rights Act was to help black men so their families could stay intact, but Howard Smith poison-pilled the whole thing by diverting it to women. For people who are in the military, I point this out in its internship form. The Skillbridge program was designed to facilitate internships for departing servicemen to address difficulties with veteran unemployment, but the spoils mostly go to officers with highly marketable skills, like submarine and cryptography officers. After all, those officers have each been practicing the art of finding and utilizing beneficial programs to their advantage for decades by that point in their lives; why wouldn't they use this one too?
- ajsnigrutin 3y agoBut people who never owned slaves are now discriminated against so people who never were slaves get priviliges and get accepted to college.