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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm black and I say no to reparations cause the last thing I want in 40 years when my grandchildren are in the new up and coming majority-minority is to have them feel obligated to help out the poor dwindling populace of white folks who "paid their dues" for slavery.  
F-that...I want my grandkids to be able to repeat the same refrain my grandfather heard from white folks when he complained about being shitted on and shut out, "deal with it."[/quote]

Clearly you're educated and evolved. Thanks for your intelligent input!

God help you if your grandchildren fall in love with white folks.[/quote]

If my grandkids fall in love and marry a white person then they're family and family supports one another but as for all the other non-related white folks years from now who will no doubt be infinitely more impacted by reverse racism than folks today because they're no longer the majority....my attitude is f-em and I damn sure won't be distraught if my grandkids share the same sentiments.  Karma is a bitch and time is infinite so what goes around always comes around ultimately the uncertainty is when.[/quote]
So you're saying that you look forward to the time that whites are the minority, and they'll get a taste of the discrimination the blacks are currently fighting? All I can say is....I'm glad I'm more than halfway through life so I won't have to witness it.[/quote] What she is saying is that evil is abundant in the world and residing squarely in her person.[/quote]
Believe me, I get what she was saying. She is hoping there will come a time when white people have to suffer racism. I sure hope she's an anomaly and that the vast majority of blacks would disagree with her, because if this is a commonplace attitude - that they actually WANT to see another race experience racism! - well, my sympathies for their plight will go straight out the window. I will assume that she is a rare bird. [/quote]

That'd be a pretty safe assumption that my opinions are an anomaly because as evidenced by the overwhelming reaction to Dylan Roof's rampage black people are considerably forgiving of white radicalism, however as the Riots of 65 and Ferguson have shown it's the continuing systemic racism that they just can't excuse or exempt and why not...life sucks am I right?  The modus operandi of this country has been about systematically lifting up one race for centuries and telling everybody else to deal with the hand they're dealt or work harder and overcome more obstacles to gain a slight sense of equality so should the demographics change and the system starts leaning toward uplifting another race besides whites then I say keep the modus operandi in effect - it's what made this country great right?  Let white folks deal with it or work harder to acquire some semblance of equality why should they be exempt?[/quote]

The mere fact that you think that white people don't have to "work" of anything that they have (i.e., everything is handed to them because of supposed white priv) simple highlights your lack of touch with reality.  We understand you are angry at your life and are looking for someone to blame.  Look within. [/quote]

Peep this...

The 1830 Indian Removal Act forcibly relocated Cherokee, Creeks and other eastern Native Americans to west of the Mississippi River to make room for white settlers and the 1862 Homestead Act followed suit, giving away millions of acres - for free - of what had been Indian Territory west of the Mississippi.  Ultimately, 270 million acres, or 10% of the total land area of the United States, was converted to private hands, overwhelmingly white, under Homestead Act provisions.  Blacks attempting to do such found their homes/communities burned to ashes or they themselves were killed for having the audacity to do such.  White folks benefited.

The federal government never followed through on General Sherman's Civil War plan to divide up plantations and give each freed slave "40 acres and a mule" as reparations.  Only once was monetary compensation made for slavery, in Washington, D.C.  There, government officials paid up to $300 per slave upon emancipation - BUT NOT TO THE SLAVES, no the money went to local slaveholders as compensation for loss of property.  White folks benefited.

The Federal Housing Administration established under FDR's "New Deal" helped generate much of the wealth that so many white families enjoy today.  The revolutionary programs made it possible for millions of average white Americans - but not others - to own a home for the first time and the government set up a national neighborhood appraisal system, explicitly tying mortgage eligibility to race.  Integrated communities were ipso facto deemed a financial risk and made ineligible for home loans hence reinforcing segregation - basically a policy still enacted today but known as "redlining."  Between 1934 and 1962, the federal government backed $120 billion of home loans, more than 98% of went to whites.  Of the 350,000 new homes built with federal support in northern California between 1946 and 1960, fewer than 100 went to African-Americans.  White folks benefited big time and have been from Day One.

I'm not trying to suggest that white people haven't worked but I know damn well you better not be trying to argue that white people haven't benefited while blacks have had to work harder to acquire the same freedoms and benefits.  Regardless of whether the benefit is right now, today, as we speak in the present day or whether it was inherited from a previous generation the fact remains that while white folks may have had to work for what they got they didn't have to work like slaves, am I right?  Nor did they have to work extra hard just to be afforded equal opportunity - they just had to work, period - whereas blacks had to work extra hard for decades just to be even given a hint of consideration for a non-menial job not to mention the extra work they had to put in to rebuke the intense scrutiny that societal racism stamped on them suggesting that they were inherently incompetent enough to do anything besides menial labor.  Yeah whites worked hard but they had a plethora of occupations to choose from while blacks worked hard for who knows how long relegated to shit like shining shoes and being house servants.  SMH...[/quote]

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