Reparations for slavery

[Donovan]

People who think that blacks were ever adequately compensated for slavery, or "made equal" at any time up to and including the present day, are certainly mistaken and almost as certainly white. It's simply not the truth.

Stop with the white guilt BS. You're white, after taxes, how much of your paycheck do you contribute to the needy blacks? Do you go to your local hood and give everyone a hug and tell them how sorry you are for what happened 100s of yrs ago? Do you ask them what you can do to help their "situation"?
I'm serious...instead of getting on here trying to make everyone feel guilty for something none of us had anything to do with, why don't you try and come up with some ideas or solutions to satisfy the blacks so we can all live in peace. Not on here, out in the real world.

Who said anything about white guilt? I prefer to follow the philosophy set forth in Plato's allegory of the cave. You know, looking at reality for what it is and not being frightened by shadows on the wall. We cannot move forward as a truly powerful nation unless we take a hard look at what we have done, right and wrong alike, to get to this point. It does us no earthly good to withhold hope from so many of our people based on skin color, and by doing so limit ourselves as humans.

Black men and women and children were property until 150 years ago. Not "hundreds. And they were destroyed, tortured, wantonly murdered by the thousands, mistreated, and otherwise maligned for another century after their so-called liberation. And their forced inequality at the hands of state-sponsored racist policies continues to this day. Blacks who are given opportunities and an equal shot at the American dream prove time and again to be valuable members of their communities. It is only the people left without hope-both black AND white- who become a drain on society. It's adorable that you think only black people can be needy, or poor, or useless. And by adorable I mean slightly nauseating.

We are the land of plenty. The idea that allowing others to seek equal opportunity would somehow take our own is a fallacy. So is the idea that "OUR" tax money is somehow still ours to control. It isn't. We elect representative who (in theory) spend the money we donate wisely and on things we find worthwhile. The only reasons to hold others back from hope and opportunity that we as whites enjoy would be fear and greed. Which one drives you?

Reparations don't have to be about cash rewards, none of which would begin to set things right. But investing in our poorest communities, building neighborhoods and schools and parks instead of prisons and liquor stores...but here's the part where you and others like you blame the conditions of our ghettos on the poor people themselves, right?