Congresswoman Hopes Reparations Bill is Path to ‘Repair Some of the Damage’ Caused by Slavery (Obama, elect)
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So the fact that women today are 35% more likely to live in poverty than men, be less educated thenmen, make less money than men and make up most single parent homes is not the result of 300+ years of being denied an education, employment, and rights but black being having more single parent homes than whites, higher poverty than whites and less education than whites is a result of 300+ years of being denied education, employment and rights. How did that happen?
I have taken you to the water because you say you thirst....yet you refuse to drink. You don't want water...you want liquor.
Was it called race hustling when whites were oppressing blacks for centuries?
That's a sophomoric historical perspective. Some whites oppressed some blacks, some blacks oppressed some blacks, and on and on through all the racial permutations. But the bottom line is that there is nothing to be "repaired". Black Americans (other than recent immigrants) owe their life to chattel slavery. They wouldn't be here without it, and they are its greatest beneficiaries.
Look..... in this history that relates to America...... Blacks have oppressed blacks. Whites have oppressed whites. Whites have oppressed blacks, but blacks have not oppressed whites. It would all be a wash if not for that last imbalance as that last un-reconciled oppression is what accounts for the current racial inequality.
What is going to happen when White America is no longer around? White America is slowly dying out, and in another decade alone, will no longer be the majority. America will be dominated by mostly Latinos and Hispanics.
If we were indeed given preferential treatment, our rates of unemployment and poverty would be below that of whites and our income would be above that of whites. Based upon the results, its obvious who has been getting preferential treatment....and who still gets it.
You might be able to point to a few examples where attempts are made to bring in blacks....true, but the preponderance of preference in a white dominated society goes to those favoring their own.
I think what is needed is financial literacy education in black communities. The stock market, compound interest, and wealth building are not taught in schools and historically black communities do not have family members that provide this education in the home (at least in my area growing up). I remember my own dad admitting that he didn't know anything about retirement accounts or stocks, he did 27 years in the Air force then double dipped at the Post office for retirement, Mom retired military too so no go there.
I'm near 40 and just started to understand this stuff and invest. I've missed almost 10 years of gains because I had no idea how to get started. I didn't even understand 401k's, when I asked my friends and family they would give vague non-specific answers so I realized none of us knew outside of matching employer contributions.
How do you get on the highway to the American dream when you cant even find the on-ramp.
I agree with this. And this can go for all races. Most of the new wealth made today is through the stock markets. I myself got lucky with some real estate flipping, but even that was a business I had to learn myself since the schools don't teach about real world stuff like buying homes, and how to fix them up, and then how to invest in stock markets.
It's as if the schools are teaching the kids just enough to know how to turn on a computer and to be prepared to work a slave 9-5 job.
Another scam to rob the American tax payer and redistribute wealth. The tax payer is continuously under assault from democrats scams from climate change to trade deals to now "Reparations". Something that no one alive today had a hand in doing.
Oh, you mean the way America robbed blacks of wages for their work in building this country for several centuries?
Their is a reason the poorest part of most cities have a high black population. America stole their wages for centuries. Now the right wingers blame them constantly for their situation while having a high and mighty attitude about how its not right to take things away from people who work hard.
I don't automatically support reparations and have no idea how it would work out reasonably fair. But its fair to say that America wouldn't be the world superpower it is without slavery, and a massive amount of income was never paid to a large portion of the country who built it working under often brutal conditions while having their families torn apart.
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