Bernie Sanders Thinks Reparations Won't Work...

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

But thinks he can pass universal single-payer healthcare/trillion dollar spending bill in a Republican dominated Congress.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/bernie-sanders-reparations/424602/

Coates:

Sanders’s anti-racist moderation points to a candidate who is not merely against reparations, but one who doesn’t actually understand the argument. To briefly restate it, from 1619 until at least the late 1960s, American institutions, businesses, associations, and governments—federal, state and local—repeatedly plundered black communities. Their methods included everything from land-theft, to red-lining, to disenfranchisement, to convict-lease labor, to lynching, to enslavement, to the vending of children. So large was this plunder that America, as we know it today, is simply unimaginable without it. Its great universities were founded on it. Its early economy was built by it. Its suburbs were financed by it. Its deadliest war was the result of it.

And:

If not even an avowed socialist can be bothered to grapple with reparations, if the question really is that far beyond the pale, if Bernie Sanders truly believes that victims of the Tulsa pogrom deserved nothing, that the victims of contract lending deserve nothing, that the victims of debt peonage deserve nothing, that that political plunder of black communities entitle them to nothing, if this is the candidate of the radical left—then expect white supremacy in America to endure well beyond our lifetimes and lifetimes of our children. Reparations is not one possible tool against white supremacy. It is the indispensable tool against white supremacy. One cannot propose to plunder a people, incur a moral and monetary debt, propose to never pay it back, and then claim to be seriously engaging in the fight against white supremacy.

I think it's time Black people start our own party to stand in Congressional elections in the very least.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Yeah...more proof no politician will ever have the interests of black people mind.

I gave up on America a looooooong time ago.

 

[Poitier]

He is right about reparations but delusional about the other stuff. Still, he is the best option. No doubt Coates will be rewarded by Hilary.

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

We're not getting reparations. Can we start aim at goals we can maybe actually meet instead of trying to catch a damn unicorn?

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

He is right about reparations but delusional about the other stuff. Still, he is the best option. No doubt Coates will be rewarded by Hilary.

Coates wrote an article about how Democrats helped build the prison-industrial complex. The role of her husband behind the 1994 (or 1995?) Crime Bill was mentioned at length. I think it also quoted a speech she gave mentioning "super-predators".

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

#imstillberning

 

[Poitier]

Coates wrote an article about how Democrats helped build the prison-industrial complex. The role of her husband behind the 1994 (or 1995?) Crime Bill was mentioned at length. I think it also quoted a speech she gave mentioning "super-predators".

Before she ran and not in the context of her campaign.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

#imstillberning

Why tho?

Reparations is just as likely to exist as his vision of a socialist America according to Sanders. The same reasons he used to dismiss reparations can equally apply to his socialism.

 

[Mowgli]

Think there's such thing as a good cac bruhs.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Before she ran and not in the context of her campaign.

I disagree about it being within the context of the Democratic Campaign of 2016.

Still, we should expect Coates not to curry favour with the Democratic establishment. It's not his thing, given that he's very pro-reparations

 

[Poitier]

Why tho?

Reparations is just as likely to exist as his vision of a socialist America according to Sanders. The same reasons he used to dismiss reparations can equally apply to his socialism.

Have you ever bartered?

Still, we should expect Coates not to curry favour with the Democratic establishment.

He is VERY pro Obama and many of his buddies are pro Clinton

 

[Ineedmoney504]

We never getting reparations. shyt just never gon happen

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Have you ever bartered?

What relevance does it have to this discussion? At issue is whether Sanders is acting in a hypocritical manner when he on one hand dismisses reparations for black folk but says all of his socialist plans for the U.S. will work.

 

[Neil Tyson]

Beg for unearned money brehs.

 

[Poitier]

What relevance does it have to this discussion? At issue is whether Sanders is acting in a hypocritical manner when he on one hand dismisses reparations for black folk but says all of his socialist plans for the U.S. will work.

All of them don't have to work, just some. Most of which are non-starters for Clinton.