Quote:
Originally Posted by mostpost
Let’s start out with it’s not a bill. It’s a suggestion by a committee. Still, it’s not a great suggestion. It’s definitely not practical financially. If we’re going to do reparations, we should target them to the black community; not black individuals. We should build low cost or free health clinics in black neighborhoods and affiliate them with nearby hospitals. We should increase funding for majority black primary and secondary schools.
We should supplement funding for HBCU’s. We should establish need based scholarships for qualified black students at all schools.
All this needs to be ona national basis paid for locally, statewide and nationally.
No body living today was a slave or a slave holder, but systemic racism is a real thing and it must have consequences!
|
More BS from you. lots of people of color doing much better than I. One of my fellow nursing school students, a person of color, was a helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army. I was also in the Army and spent my time as a foot soldier. Should me, an Irish American, expect reparations for the sins committed against my ancestors? Hardly.
Lebron James, a guy who is always on the racism kick, recently purchased a stake in the Boston Red Sox group, a city he claims is racist. The man is worth over a billion dollars. Lets throw Oprah and Samuel L Jackson into the mix. A couple of people who also love to play the race card. Sure do wish i suffered as much oppression as they do.
Every person regardless of their particular 'tribe' has an opportunity to improve their lot. Cowards find excuses to hide behind.
I read Reggie Jacksons book. His mother abandoned the family when he was young, his father was imprisoned for bootlegging when Reggie was 14. He and an older brother ran a laundry to make ends meet ... all the while Reggie continued with his schooling, earning a football scholarship to Arizona State University. The rest is history.
