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In reply to the discussion: Ta-Nehisi Coates: "THE CASE FOR REPARATION" A Must Read-Let it marinate in your mind & read it again [View all]AnalystInParadise
(1,832 posts)30. So mass punishment
Just say that instead of flowery language. It is mass punishment. My family lived in Mexico a few decades, the other side of my family came from Poland after WW2, my family has nothing to do with slavery, and it is a mass punishment to take anything away from anyone and give it to others if the overriding factor is some kind of guilt. I have no guilt, I have no privilege. I can think of nothing more damaging to American society than forced reparations.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: "THE CASE FOR REPARATION" A Must Read-Let it marinate in your mind & read it again [View all]
kpete
May 2014
OP
James Fallows recommends this, comparing the US to Germany, China, Russia, Japan and South Africa
pampango
May 2014
#1
I have been nothing short of astonished at how little traction this story has gotten here
Number23
May 2014
#15
"have fed from the govt. teet for your entire life." Actually he SERVED his country.
Kurska
May 2014
#40
Your smear against veterans isn't anymore acceptable, because you're mad about what he said.
Kurska
May 2014
#48
"You were in my mind a jerk, so I was a jerk to an entire class of people that you are a part of"
Kurska
May 2014
#49
You are incorrect again. It is not mass punishment. It is collective responsibility.
kwassa
May 2014
#34
"It's a question of the *state's* exploitation of and wealth extraction from a class of people..."
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2014
#74
Why on earth should my Russian-Jewish family take part in collective responsibility for slavery?
Kurska
May 2014
#39
Yet more ignorant commentary from someone who clearly didn't read the article
Spider Jerusalem
May 2014
#54
This isn't about *you*, it's about the collective responsibility of the US government.
Spider Jerusalem
May 2014
#57
Did you have anything to do with putting Japanese-Americans in camps?
Spider Jerusalem
May 2014
#100
Sure, I read it, most of it is about slavery, which isn't want's being talked about here.
Spider Jerusalem
May 2014
#109
Saying we should address something isn't the same thing as offering concrete proposals.
Spider Jerusalem
May 2014
#114
This is something that would require separate legislation; YOU do realise THAT, yes?
Spider Jerusalem
May 2014
#122
You'd have to repeal or heavily modify title VI of the civil rights act to do it.
Kurska
May 2014
#123
You seem to be implying Benjamin Jealous is not black. Is that what you are saying?
kwassa
May 2014
#128
Actually, I was using him as an example of how being black can go beyond skin color.
Kurska
May 2014
#132
Because your Russian Jewish family benefits from the wealth built by slave labor.
kwassa
May 2014
#65
Yeah, all the racist whites were lining up to provide my Jewish relatives jobs.
Kurska
May 2014
#103
No one is holding you or your family personally responsible for slavery
killbotfactory
May 2014
#120
Checks to African Americans for being African Americans isn't going to advance race relations
Kurska
May 2014
#37
why is there an idea that blacks are dependent on govt and incapable of making it on their own
JI7
May 2014
#45
Who thinks American Blacks are "incapable..."? This is the crap Republicans spout in their anti-
WinkyDink
May 2014
#52
The vaunted postwar middle class was perfectly happy with checks to them for being white
Recursion
May 2014
#61
America prefers myth to history. See: Americans, Native. See: VietNam. See: Reagan.
WinkyDink
May 2014
#51
And I think that my point is that is connected and difficult to deal with in terms of reparations.
aikoaiko
May 2014
#76
Fair enough, but others have when using the term reparations with black Americans.
aikoaiko
May 2014
#82
You are wrong again. The industrial revolution in the US started with slave-grown cotton.
kwassa
May 2014
#130