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Originally posted by straightBOS
Microsoft sinks millions into Urban schools each year, and Bill has yet to be implicated in any this. Yet, urban schools and test scores are pitiful. Outside handouts are NOT a SOLUTION.
What good would it do if these companies put up money? What WE NEED to do is stop playing poor ol' me, give me a reason to uplift myself and my community and ACTUALY DO IT!
I'm sorry, but no one alive to day can give an accurate first hand account of what it was like to de a slave, so how can profit as if we had done the work?
If you are born into poverty, as some point that becomes apparent to you. At that point it should NOT become apparent to you that it is someone else's fault and they should pay. Instead, it should mean that you MUST and you had BETTER work twice or three time as hard to get where you want to be. If one does not want to do that, no amount of money or tuition payments or whatever else will suffice.
Black people: DO FOR SELF!!
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Very well-stated. There is a very definite line between playing poor ol' me and recognizing the past for what it was: a pre-cursor for the state of our society today. I may have been ambiguous in my post, but I do not advocate the sit-back-and-whine approach. Rather, a more pro-active, learn-from-the-past-or-be-doomed-to-repeat-it approach. I don't think that reparations have to be monetary. It is not unusual to think so, since in this day and age, America's heart lies in its pocketbook. I do not think that you should trace back the lineage of those who had enslaved ancestors (that applies to a lot of whites too!) and dole out dollars. I DO think that in order for anyone to be able to heal from the atrocity of our past, it must be acknowledged rather than swept under the rug. I would like to see reparations in the form of a PROPER education for all students. I mean can we get something more than a paragraph in the history books saying "slavery happened, it was abolished, now we are equal, whoopee!"? Please. Let's tell it how it was so that everyone can be exposed to it.
As for the government. The fact that they deemed slavery legal absolves them from guilt? I refuse to buy into this. They also deemed Blacks as 3/5 of a person. Oh...since THEY said it...and it WAS a long time ago...and NO ONE feels that way now
...why worry? This kind of attitude bothers me.
As far as government...pick your poison, huh. I don't know if any of the structures thought out by America's founders had any merit at all. And that goes back to when THEY were being oppressed in Europe by another bogus government. I am studying the so-called "primative" cultures that existed before America or any other colony was ever even a twinkle in anyone's eye. Forming a hierarchy, in my opinion, is human nature. Playing crabs in a barrel is not. I think there is a big difference.