Wow.....I Found this Shocking and Sad

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by notofworks

Well, as horrific as the treatment of Native Americans has been, they've been given great portions of land. As well, the American government granted $20,000 to each surviving detainee of the Japanese interments.

Those in slavery? Nothing. Zilcho. Nada. They were promised a mule and didn't even get that.

About 40,000 freed slaves were given 400,000 acres in Georgia and South Carolina. But President Andrew Johnson reversed the decision following the assassination of President Lincoln and the land was given back to the previous owners. In 1867 Thaddeus Stevens sponsored a bill to give back the land but the bill was not passed.

So....officially, there has never been any reparations given for the 222,505,049 hours of forced labor between the years 1619 and 1865.

At least the government did something for the Japanese and Native Americans.

The Japanese who suffered were mostly still alive. The Native Americans existed within Federally recognized tribes and actually had contracts and treaties with the Federal gov't going back a couple of centuries at least.

I'm not saying it's all "fair" ... just that there it is.

And, what about my "lily white" household? 4 out of 5 members of my own household are the direct descendants of African American slaves. In addition, my wife's great uncle was a legitimate martyr in the struggle for civil rights in the 1960's. How much cash do we get?

[Truthseeker]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

This fact has NEVER sat well with me.

However, I realize that reparations now is not plausible.

Sometimes, when I dwell on it and other glaring past injustices, I get a little saddened and angry at the same time. Ultimately, it is my faith in God and that is what allows me to stomach the past without spewing bile everytime I open my mouth.

The story of Emmet Till still sparks a rage in me that I have learned to keep in check.

Bitterness destroys. Faith heals.


I know it's not over now as well, but I got to tell you all that I really believe that MANY, MANY, MANY people make very poor decisions. There are unfortunate consequences to those poor decisions that only GOD can change.


For so many, the inequalities start at birth-- as to what kind of family and environment that a child is born into.

"The cards" usually fall into place for an American based on that-- regardless of race. Sure, there will always be exceptions, but generally speaking I believe I am right.

For some, the deck is stacked against them before they're twelve years old.

Even at kindergarten you can see the differences.

Whose fault is that?

When that 12 yeear old's older sister, who's 17 and was just accepted into college, is accidentally killed in a drive-by shooting that happened in her neighborhood as she was walking home from school, whose fault is it?


When that twelve year old becomes an adult and turns to a life of crime, whose fault is it?



Most of today's YOUNGER white people have little if anything to do with the plight of today's black people that are caught in the perpetual cycle of poverty, violence and death.

Can't blame the white man for everything.

Some people come from terrible environments and become terrible and toxic people.

Some overcome the terrible and that, only by the Grace of God.

Breakdown of the family structure, I believe.