The Maryland Reparations Commission has been enacted into law

[Anonymous]

The Maryland Reparations Commission has been enacted into law. Let’s clarify what the Civil Rights movement and the the 1968 Civil Rights Act aimed for:

- it was a promise to future generations that our government would never again prioritize one race over another.

This bill (now a Maryland law) undermines the unifying purpose of the Civil Rights movement.

[Anonymous]

I don’t like it but I am not sure if it does what you said. MD is such a fked up state.

[Anonymous]

I don't like it myself, but there is a legitimate rationale for exploring reparations. Without a remedy of some sort, there is no right. That's foundational to our legal system.

Is the remedy of freedom and equality sufficient to remedy the harm of slavery and Jim Crow? Maybe. But do those remedies sufficiently account for generations of denied opportunity to accumulate wealth like whites had? That's the crux.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Maryland Reparations Commission has been enacted into law. Let’s clarify what the Civil Rights movement and the the 1968 Civil Rights Act aimed for:

- it was a promise to future generations that our government would never again prioritize one race over another.

This bill (now a Maryland law) undermines the unifying purpose of the Civil Rights movement.

giving reparations to one particular group is probably going to result in the 14th amendment being brought up in a court of law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Maryland Reparations Commission has been enacted into law. Let’s clarify what the Civil Rights movement and the the 1968 Civil Rights Act aimed for:

- it was a promise to future generations that our government would never again prioritize one race over another.

This bill (now a Maryland law) undermines the unifying purpose of the Civil Rights movement.

It's hard to be "unified" when a major group in the US is still feeling the lingering effects of systemic racism.

If you don't want to prioritize one race over another, then everyone should dump ALL of their wealth together and then split it evenly across everyone in the US. We can start over so that white people aren't continued to be prioritized over everyone else - we all start off equal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Maryland Reparations Commission has been enacted into law. Let’s clarify what the Civil Rights movement and the the 1968 Civil Rights Act aimed for:

- it was a promise to future generations that our government would never again prioritize one race over another.

This bill (now a Maryland law) undermines the unifying purpose of the Civil Rights movement.

giving reparations to one particular group is probably going to result in the 14th amendment being brought up in a court of law.

The outcome is predictable knowing that the SCOTUS is corrupt.

[Anonymous]

Nice try. Why should first and second generation immigrants pay for something we had nothing to do with (including Jim Crow era)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Maryland Reparations Commission has been enacted into law. Let’s clarify what the Civil Rights movement and the the 1968 Civil Rights Act aimed for:

- it was a promise to future generations that our government would never again prioritize one race over another.

This bill (now a Maryland law) undermines the unifying purpose of the Civil Rights movement.

The bold will not be done.

I was happy to see Henrietta Lack's family was finally compensated for what they stole from her.

When you steal something from someone and you profit off what was stolen, you play them back.

If someone stole from your family, you could get reparations.

Nobody is coming for a group of people to pay back another. If you stole something pay up, if you didn't why are you worried.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Maryland Reparations Commission has been enacted into law. Let’s clarify what the Civil Rights movement and the the 1968 Civil Rights Act aimed for:

- it was a promise to future generations that our government would never again prioritize one race over another.

This bill (now a Maryland law) undermines the unifying purpose of the Civil Rights movement.

White people sure do love to talk about what the Civil Rights movement was about.

https://www.nytimes.com/1967/11/12/archives/the-american-negro-a-bill-of-rights-for-the-disadvantaged.html

"Our national sources, both private and governmental, are being withheld. Once we admit that Negroes are in no way responsible for their predicament, and determine to deal with poverty, joblessness, slums, and ill-health in the way that Sweden and other mono-racial countries deal with social problems, we will begin to apply our tremendous human and financial resources to these basic difficulties."

Read more about the looooong history of civil rights leaders demanding reparations here: https://www.balanta.org/history/history-of-the-modern-reparations-movement-in-the-united-states

[Anonymous]

More like the Maryland Waste of Time Commission. Maryland can't even balance it's budget today, much less do all the road improvements to the Beltway that are required. There's no money or political will for reparations. What a total waste of time.

[Anonymous]

How about Native Americans?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Maryland Reparations Commission has been enacted into law. Let’s clarify what the Civil Rights movement and the the 1968 Civil Rights Act aimed for:

- it was a promise to future generations that our government would never again prioritize one race over another.

This bill (now a Maryland law) undermines the unifying purpose of the Civil Rights movement.

It's hard to be "unified" when a major group in the US is still feeling the lingering effects of systemic racism.

If you don't want to prioritize one race over another, then everyone should dump ALL of their wealth together and then split it evenly across everyone in the US. We can start over so that white people aren't continued to be prioritized over everyone else - we all start off equal.

Yes whatever would we do without lingering effects of systemic racism. We’d have no victims then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Maryland Reparations Commission has been enacted into law. Let’s clarify what the Civil Rights movement and the the 1968 Civil Rights Act aimed for:

- it was a promise to future generations that our government would never again prioritize one race over another.

This bill (now a Maryland law) undermines the unifying purpose of the Civil Rights movement.

It's hard to be "unified" when a major group in the US is still feeling the lingering effects of systemic racism.

If you don't want to prioritize one race over another, then everyone should dump ALL of their wealth together and then split it evenly across everyone in the US. We can start over so that white people aren't continued to be prioritized over everyone else - we all start off equal.

Yes whatever would we do without lingering effects of systemic racism. We’d have no victims then.

We'd also lose the rationale advanced for lack of accomplishment by people who didn't bother to obtain an education, have little ambition, and make little effort to improve their onw situations, preferring instead that the government take money from those who are productive to redistribute it to those who can't be bothered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Maryland Reparations Commission has been enacted into law. Let’s clarify what the Civil Rights movement and the the 1968 Civil Rights Act aimed for:

- it was a promise to future generations that our government would never again prioritize one race over another.

This bill (now a Maryland law) undermines the unifying purpose of the Civil Rights movement.

It's hard to be "unified" when a major group in the US is still feeling the lingering effects of systemic racism.

If you don't want to prioritize one race over another, then everyone should dump ALL of their wealth together and then split it evenly across everyone in the US. We can start over so that white people aren't continued to be prioritized over everyone else - we all start off equal.

Yes whatever would we do without lingering effects of systemic racism. We’d have no victims then.

We'd also lose the rationale advanced for lack of accomplishment by people who didn't bother to obtain an education, have little ambition, and make little effort to improve their onw situations, preferring instead that the government take money from those who are productive to redistribute it to those who can't be bothered.

This is one of the most racist statements I've seen on DCUM and that should tell you a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nice try. Why should first and second generation immigrants pay for something we had nothing to do with (including Jim Crow era)?

No one is asking you personally to pay FFS. The government did an injustice and the government will pay.