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The Jews got reparations because it was given directly to the SURVIVORS, many of whom are still alive and many of their children and descendants are around today and carry the legacy and pain.
Slavery in the USA was not even racial. It was matrilineal. You were only a slave if your mother was a slave. There were slaves of all races (including even WHITE slaves)
I think a better case of reparations for African Americans can be made using Jim Crow as an example. There are still many Jim Crow survivors. Jim Crow was definitely anti black and racist. In addition the racist one drop rule operated only from 1930 to 1965, and finally abolished in 1967. The one drop rule did a lot of damage to U.S. American society as well as to African Americans.
However if AAs get reparations that means the governments and whites hands are tied and there is no room for AAs to complain about and blame others for their **** ups.
“After World War II, a new consensus emerged in the United States and Europe that Jews had to be integrated posthumously into white Europeanness, and that the horror of the Jewish holocaust was essentially a horror at the murder of white Europeans. Since the 1960s, Hollywood films about the holocaust began to depict Jewish victims of Nazism as white Christian-looking, middle class, educated and talented people not unlike contemporary European and American Christians who should and would identify with them. Presumably if the films were to depict the poor religious Jews of Eastern Europe (and most East European Jews who were killed by the Nazis were poor and many were religious), contemporary white Christians would not find commonality with them. Hence, the post-holocaust European Christian horror at the genocide of European Jews was not based on the horror of slaughtering people in the millions who were different from European Christians, but rather a horror at the murder of millions of people who were the same as European Christians. This explains why in a country like the United States, which had nothing to do with the slaughter of European Jews, there exists upwards of 40 holocaust memorials and a major museum for the murdered Jews of Europe, but not one for the holocaust of Native Americans or African Americans for which the US is responsible.”
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The Last of the Semites by Joseph Massad
blacks should be protesting for reperations not against whites but against the us govt. jews get reperation and their situation happened in germany, it wasnt in america and they get reparations. native americans get reperation, they got land reservations and they get checks. gambling casinos make more than all black bussiness combined. the casinos are only allowed on reservations. thats not fair. that is economic discrimination. immigrants are given reparations. women are given reparations. blacks are given the short end of the stick. blacks need to get it together. social engineering has done a number on blacks.
“After World War II, a new consensus emerged in the United States and Europe that Jews had to be integrated posthumously into white Europeanness, and that the horror of the Jewish holocaust was essentially a horror at the murder of white Europeans. Since the 1960s, Hollywood films about the holocaust began to depict Jewish victims of Nazism as white Christian-looking, middle class, educated and talented people not unlike contemporary European and American Christians who should and would identify with them. Presumably if the films were to depict the poor religious Jews of Eastern Europe (and most East European Jews who were killed by the Nazis were poor and many were religious), contemporary white Christians would not find commonality with them. Hence, the post-holocaust European Christian horror at the genocide of European Jews was not based on the horror of slaughtering people in the millions who were different from European Christians, but rather a horror at the murder of millions of people who were the same as European Christians. This explains why in a country like the United States, which had nothing to do with the slaughter of European Jews, there exists upwards of 40 holocaust memorials and a major museum for the murdered Jews of Europe, but not one for the holocaust of Native Americans or African Americans for which the US is responsible.”
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The Last of the Semites by Joseph Massad
Slavery in the USA was not even racial. It was matrilineal. You were only a slave if your mother was a slave. There were slaves of all races (including even WHITE slaves)
I think a better case of reparations for African Americans can be made using Jim Crow as an example. There are still many Jim Crow survivors. Jim Crow was definitely anti black and racist. In addition the racist one drop rule operated only from 1930 to 1965, and finally abolished in 1967. The one drop rule did a lot of damage to U.S. American society as well as to African Americans.
However if AAs get reparations that means the governments and whites hands are tied and there is no room for AAs to complain about and blame others for their own ****ups.
Why are you digging through and bringing back all the old worn out threads about slavery?
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