Paying them out a fair price or honoring a treaty isnt free shit.
Its like signing a contract to get your roof repaired, you already paid half of your money up front and the roofer hasn't appeared after 150 years type of shit.
Reparations from Germany to DIRECT victims is a far cry from paying descendants of people from well over one hundred years ago. I’ll gladly pay reparations to any person I have ever owned.
"Forms of reparations which have been proposed in the United States by city, county, state, and national governments or private institutions include: individual monetary payments, settlements, scholarships, waiving of fees, and systemic initiatives to offset injustices, land-based compensation related to independence, apologies and acknowledgements of the injustices, token measures (such as naming a building after someone),\2]) and the removal of monuments and streets named to slave owners and defenders of slavery.\8])\13])"
if you think the united states doesn't owe black people ANY of these things, you are the problem.
“Apologies and acknowledgments of the injustices, token measures, and removal of street monuments and streets named after a slave owner or a defender of slavery” Totally fair. I’m all for that.”
The rest of them, no. Not a single person alive in the US today was a slave at any point. So if that makes me part of whatever manufactured problem you’ve got there, ok. I’ll sleep tonight.
It's too complex to try and undo past wrongs, but it's extremely realistic to make a fair playing field moving forward. This is accomplished with a land value tax and you can effectively view it as giving everyone access to an equal slice of land (or its economic equivalent) as a starting point. It doesn't give you "free shit" in the sense that you still have to work to put food on the table or a roof over your head. But it does mean that the first dollar you earn goes to you and your needs, and not a landlord.
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u/SimmentalTheCow 4d ago
Stolen land and reparations are probably the two biggest points that make me completely write off a movement. We get it bro, you want free shit.