AMERICA SAID, NO WAY IN HELL…!!!
By Gigi
So, finally they’ve said it. The United States of America—or specifically a Federal Appeals Court rejected most claims by slave descendants that they DO NOT deserve reparations from some of the nation’s biggest and wealthiest insurance company’s, banking institutions and transportation company’s. The Appeals Courts stated that ‘yes’, although they recognize the injustices African slaves received upon stepping foot into this country after being dragged in chains away from their homeland, Blacks losing their cultural identity, losing their native language, losing their name and parentage and for the women being systematically raped over and over… that it does not negate the fact that slave descendants have no right or standing to sue for reparations based on injustices suffered by ancestors and that the statute of limitations ran out over 100 years ago.
Well, that’s interesting—since over 100 years ago, Blacks receiving education or simply learning how to read was considered a crime. Hypocritical Bastards!!! My point? Most Blacks didn’t know how to read or to fight for their rights against a power structure that included such institutions like: the newspapers, courts and racist politicians. It seems so unfair even by today’s standards, that other disenfranchised groups: Indigenous Indians, Japanese and Jewish peoples have received some form of compensation or fiduciary discharge for their pain and suffering.
The Indians received land (not as swanky as Manhattan which was stolen from them in the 1600’s) where they built their own reservation, casino partnership or ownership and other forms of gambling establishments, cigarette distribution businesses and they don’t pay any taxes; Japan received money and all kinds of aide to rebuild after Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the US bombed those two cities in retaliation for Japan bombing the Pearl Harbor naval port in Hawaii. Japan also received some form of agreement from the US that the US would buy ANY and EVERYTHING that Japan exports to the US; all of this is due to the US feeling guilty. So Japan started exporting cars, audio and visual equipment, etc. I guess the US doesn’t feel guilty about how African slaves or even their descendants today are still being treated.
The Jewish community received a museum/monument in Washington DC depicting the Holocaust; they received monetary reparations and more…in fact, they’re still getting reparations as I write this. And please, don’t talk about Blacks receiving Affirmative Action, because that’s nothing! Why should Blacks be satisfied for policies correcting the murderous and disparate treatment they’ve received for over 400 years and is still present today? Common decency towards other fellow human beings shouldn’t have to be legislated...it should be a given. In the meantime, Congress is trying to roll back affirmative action.
By Gigi
So, finally they’ve said it. The United States of America—or specifically a Federal Appeals Court rejected most claims by slave descendants that they DO NOT deserve reparations from some of the nation’s biggest and wealthiest insurance company’s, banking institutions and transportation company’s. The Appeals Courts stated that ‘yes’, although they recognize the injustices African slaves received upon stepping foot into this country after being dragged in chains away from their homeland, Blacks losing their cultural identity, losing their native language, losing their name and parentage and for the women being systematically raped over and over… that it does not negate the fact that slave descendants have no right or standing to sue for reparations based on injustices suffered by ancestors and that the statute of limitations ran out over 100 years ago.
Well, that’s interesting—since over 100 years ago, Blacks receiving education or simply learning how to read was considered a crime. Hypocritical Bastards!!! My point? Most Blacks didn’t know how to read or to fight for their rights against a power structure that included such institutions like: the newspapers, courts and racist politicians. It seems so unfair even by today’s standards, that other disenfranchised groups: Indigenous Indians, Japanese and Jewish peoples have received some form of compensation or fiduciary discharge for their pain and suffering.
The Indians received land (not as swanky as Manhattan which was stolen from them in the 1600’s) where they built their own reservation, casino partnership or ownership and other forms of gambling establishments, cigarette distribution businesses and they don’t pay any taxes; Japan received money and all kinds of aide to rebuild after Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the US bombed those two cities in retaliation for Japan bombing the Pearl Harbor naval port in Hawaii. Japan also received some form of agreement from the US that the US would buy ANY and EVERYTHING that Japan exports to the US; all of this is due to the US feeling guilty. So Japan started exporting cars, audio and visual equipment, etc. I guess the US doesn’t feel guilty about how African slaves or even their descendants today are still being treated.
The Jewish community received a museum/monument in Washington DC depicting the Holocaust; they received monetary reparations and more…in fact, they’re still getting reparations as I write this. And please, don’t talk about Blacks receiving Affirmative Action, because that’s nothing! Why should Blacks be satisfied for policies correcting the murderous and disparate treatment they’ve received for over 400 years and is still present today? Common decency towards other fellow human beings shouldn’t have to be legislated...it should be a given. In the meantime, Congress is trying to roll back affirmative action.
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