The US should pay reparations for slavery in the form of $100B given to educational and economic renewal in the black community, just as Germany paid $89B in reparations to Jews after WW2 & the US paid $20,000 in reparations to each surviving victim of Japanese internment camps.

Jan 9, 2019 · 4:58 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
Thank you so much for this.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Ridiculous. Dr. King would be appalled! America has provided FAR more in over 60 years in "the war on poverty", affirmative action, set asides, etc., with only a tripling of single parent households to show for it. No. More. Crutches.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Some questions: Who is "the black community"? How would the funds be distributed? Who would be responsible for its distribution? How would results be measured? How would this $100B achieve different results than the $1T spent on "the war on poverty"? Taxpayers will ask.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Too low an amount, you should read my piece: huffingtonpost.com/antonio-m… “In 1860, slaves as an asset were worth more than all of America’s manufacturing, all of the railroads, all of the productive capacity of the United States put together,” the Yale historian David W. Blight
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No. The money should be divided among "Native Born Black People" That money should NOT be given to shadow organizations. The Japanese did not suffer as bad as us. They got $20,000 per person for 2.5 years of internment. We should get tons more on an individual basis for 246 years
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What about the Native Americans- they had their lands stolen- systematically racially destroyed
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Replying to @marwilliamson
I agree. I would add that all treaties with Tribal Nations be honored & the continued policy of genocide stops. Some of our Nations are within 1-2 generations of extinction b/c of the "enrollment" process.
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$100B is nowhere near enough
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