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Reply 12 of 107 (Originally posted on: 04-27-03 11:08:28 PM)
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Blanket, wholesale reparations are placing the resources where they least belong. Instead, specific incidents, like Rosewood, should be handsomely rewarded in full view of the cameras. Slowly, when five or six actual decendants of people of color who lost real property, (for instance, reparations given to someone whose parents/grandparents were Japanese business or land owners who lost their belongings when they were placed in internment camps during the world war; Leonard Peltier and the Pine Ridge reservation people whose husbands were shot or whose animals were slaughtered in another specific government grab for treaty land as late as the 1970's; and some of the Korean business owners whose stores were destroyed in the LA riots---when a few cases illustrate the principle, maybe some hurt feelings can heal. The power of a simple acknowledgement of wrongdoing and an apology, hell, a handshake from the mayor, can have vast healing capabilities). When it becomes evident that the precedent, the expectation, in American is that people shouldn't have what they've earned taken away from them because of their race, then we will see a real change in racial attitudes in this country.
African-Americans aren't the only ones who got 'jumped in' to America. Ask the Irish, the Chinese, the Sicilians. We're all here now; when everybody quits bitching about how hard it was to get applause upon arrival and starts looking ahead to the business of getting ahead and the pursuit of happiness, a hell of a lot of social problems will work themselves out.
Skye, I hate to tell you, but here in Houston, home of Quannel X, the two biggest churches in the black community battle with m'f'king injunctions for the right to hold the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade every year. They brawl bitterly in the media about which one gets to hold the parade to honor the great pacifist. The fact is, each one needs that parade to qualify for some sort of funding that they would not otherwise have, so the stakes are understandably high, but the yearly brawl just leaves a bad odor behind in white and black Houstonians' and Baptists' memories alike, and nobody of either color checks the box for their yearly taxable donation, which makes the churches and activists evermore desperate and defensive. How are y'all going to get your shit together enough to convince anyone to give you more money for slaves? It becomes, Here we go again. Okay, Black People, you're tapping on my wallet again; what is it this time, y'all?
Anybody who truly believes that actual dollars are going to end up in their pocket is either a beautiful idealist or trying to get your vote. It's up to you, as a black young woman, to look at the hard data and suggest where the reparation dollars would best be spent.
Read up on the Rosewood case.
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This reply was last edited on 04-28-03 10:55:36 AM by Mojo.
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