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Obama tries to make the case against reparations for blacks
Topic Started: Dec 30 2016, 01:30 AM (555 Views)
Marcus
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Barack Obama is basically a white person in brown skin, he thinks like a lot of white people when it comes to blacks. Obama has always said that he's against reparations for blacks in America who are descendant of slaves.

Once again in a recent interview, Obama has come out and tried to make the case against reparations for blacks in America.

Obama said that if you give black people reparations, then what about Latino and Asian immigrants.

Obama is not a descendant of slaves, his ancestors were never brought to America on slave ships, his ancestors were never slaves, his ancestors never had to worked from sun up to sun down without pay, his ancestors never had their names, language history and culture taken away like most black people in America.

Obama is half white, he was raised by the white side of his family, so it's easy for him to have the mind of white people and say that black people shouldn't get reparations.

Source http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/12/29/america-has-compensated-other-groups-but-obama-opposes-reparations-for-black-people-why/
Edited by Marcus, Dec 30 2016, 01:38 AM.
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kennyinbmore
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You're not getting a check Ken, get a job.
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U Thant
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Marcus
Dec 30 2016, 01:30 AM

Source http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/12/29/america-has-compensated-other-groups-but-obama-opposes-reparations-for-black-people-why/

"...As a practical matter, however, Obama said it is hard to think of any society in which a majority population devoted a big chunk of the nation’s resources to righting its historic wrongs.

He added that America would have to find a model to administer and sustain political support for reparations, and that the country is a complicated place because it is not just a Black and white society.

There are first-generation Latino and Asian immigrants who would argue that they are poor as well and deserve help or had nothing to do with the racism Black people have experienced, he said.

All of President Obama’s arguments are flawed for a number of reasons, starting with his claim that there is no precedent. In fact, there are several. The U.S. itself has paid reparations to other groups of people on more than one occasion.

In 1988, the federal government under Ronald Reagan compensated Japanese-Americans for their internment during World War II, paying $20,000 to each survivor of the camps.

In 2012, according to CNN, the federal government under President Obama settled with thousands of Native Americans as part of a $3.4 billion agreement over a class-action lawsuit claiming government mismanagement of tribal lands and accounts.

Further, 40,000 Black farmers who claimed years of racial discrimination from the U.S. Department of Agriculture received $1.2 billion in 2013, as Black Enterprise reported.

And in 2015, the Obama administration earmarked $12 million in assistance for European Holocaust survivors living in poverty in the U.S.

Contrary to President Obama’s statement, other nations have indeed paid reparations. Britain compensated 46,000 slave owners when slavery was abolished in that country, and Haiti was forced to pay reparations to France as the price of independence from the European colonial power.

Germany also has paid $89 billion in reparations for Nazi crimes against mostly Jewish victims, according to The New York Times.

In addition, it is a false equivalence for Obama to argue that other poor people and immigrants who are not Black will resent reparations for Black people.

The effects of slavery, Jim Crow and present-day anti-Black racism and systemic oppression are specific harms to Black people that no one else can claim because no one else has experienced them.

Only Black people were brought to these shores in chains and only Black people continue to suffer from the protracted, inter-generational deprivation brought about by the badge of slavery.

America cannot eradicate racism until it is willing to confront its legacy of enslavement and repair the damage done to people of African descent..."


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Obama has the same position as racist white people when it comes to reparations for blacks.
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