In my latest, I compare Bernie Sanders's "reparations" answer from last night's #BernieTownHall to the stances of other 2020 candidates and argue that of all the candidates, only Sanders asked an all important question: "What does ["reparations"] mean?" theintercept.com/2019/02/26/…
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She wants to give a $10 billion to "economic projects and educational projects for renewal." That is not a reparations plan. Honestly I would hope you'd want more than to fall for more lip service.
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Can you please give a source or where she said that. Just for reference please. I need a link. Please and Thank you.
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ebony.com/news/dem-president… Note that it's very difficult to figure out what she wants. Her website says a lot of nice stuff about the history of discrimination and what we're owed, but is short on specifics.
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I respect your efforts to normalize the issue. I think that’s important. But this is not a plan. It’s a huge number range with no details about distribution or how this “council” would be selected — much less how it would be distributed.
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It’s not white America’s role to say how the money is disbursed. That’s why selection of the reparations counsel is so important. The legal stipulation is “projects for economic & educational renewal.” If you owe people $, you don’t get to tell them how to spend it.
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So you acknowledge that you don’t have a plan to do more than hand a crazy large amount of money to a bunch of black “leaders” who will be selected though some as-yet figured out but assuredly undemocratic process?
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Paying reparations means paying reparations. That IS the plan.

Mar 5, 2019 · 5:18 PM UTC

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Any black people on this thread? Which would be preferable, getting rid of police brutality, broken windows policing, the war on drugs, inequity in the justice system, mass incarceration.... Or a check for a thousand dollars? I fail to see how reperations fix anything. Sorry
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Those things are not mutually exclusive. Though my preference for one over the other does inform my political choices.
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You literally didn’t answer her question. But instead said a meaningless phrase. @marwilliamson
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Wait was that it? Man fuck humans we can’t do anything right sitting talking about reparations and two fucking cops just got let off after killing unarmed black ppl we don’t even have universal healthcare and we are killing the fucking planet but fuck it get paid guys
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Sometimes it seems like the thing humanity excels at most is creating problems that we are unable to solve for generations.
Substance please, not platitudes. Narrow view? K. Broad view? Um, maybe? Nuanced view? Not even close. We deserve the truth, be it simple or complicated, & we to see some need ACTION to back it up! Show us your integrity, don't play us some everyday feel good/bad rhetoric
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I mean, it's a plan-ISH. But for everyone giving a wide range of lip service without a fully fleshed out plan, when Bernie asks "what does that mean?" he gets dogpiled. Kamala outright says "FOR ALL AMERICANS!" and Twitter stays quiet. I do appreciate you speaking up!
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Yet another straw argument. Reparations means repair. Obviously you need more than a check.😜 She has the right approach to the problem. There has to be a moral imperative to fix this community specifically. The body follows the mind. #ADOS
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