Black New Yorkers clashing over who should get reparations as state panel starts

[BrothaZay]

God these immigrants and tethers are annoying. Get y’all asses on somewhere. Got all the smoke in the world for us black Americans but wanna cuddle up to us when it’s time for a bag. Get y'all asses on somewhere Go back to your homeland and holla at your colonizers.

Reparations in America is for FBA!

Yall have smoke for them but scared of white ppl and Mexicans

nikkas down south let white ppl fly confederate flags in their face

nikkas out west let Mexicans make them get off the blocc

nikkas in the Midwest let a cac be their best rapper

And worst of all nyc nikkas copied UK nikkas which is unforgivable

 

[UpNext]

Yeah I really don't even understand why this is a "black" conversation and not an ADOS conversation and why a Nigerian or something like that has any more of a place in this discussion than a Mexican or a Chinese.


Who is inviting these folks and giving them decision power in these meetings? You might as well not even have the discussion if you're gonna frame it in a way that they're involved.

 

[Paper Boi]

people always going to argue over who should get what, someone will probably end up unhappy and feeling cheated

people clashing doesn’t mean reparations should not be attempted/we should continue to do nothing.

 

[Phitz]

Should be no debate, it’s for descendants of US slavery. Not for immigrants, sorry.

if you run a dna test you will be surprised how many immigrants are descendants of US slaves

 

[HarlemHottie]

Bertha Lewis, head of the Brooklyn-based Black Institute, told The Post that reparations must be considered for all black residents, because they have suffered from decades of systemic racism resulting from slavery — even if they are not direct descendants of slaves.


“That’s a false narrative,” Lewis said. “I don’t give a f**k what California did.”

“You can’t just say, `only descendants of slaves from the South.’ Black people faced the effects of slavery — discrimination — simply because they’re black.”

She said in many cases it will be extremely hard to document proof of ties to slavery given the scant records at the time.

A rift has grown over whether all black New Yorkers should receive a check.

“If you’re going to talk about reparations, you have to talk about discrimination that has gone on a long time against black people in the white American system,” Lewis said.

fukk this bytch, and I say that sincerely. I thought I recognized the name- the former head of ACORN. She got ran off the block by the white supremacists and now she wanna come tell us who's entitled to reparations. What the fukk do she know about reparations?! Looking into her just now, come to find out, this new bs she got, The Black Institute, is all about immigrants. Typical democratic shill, program pimp behavior.

Spoiler

MARTIN: Well, what do you think your organization will do that existing think tanks - I know you're saying it's an action tank - will not do?...

LEWIS: ...I want to add to the voices that are progressive. I want to focus on black folks. I want to focus on our sort of new diversity so that all of the sort of intellectual information and the background doesn't just stay stagnant.

MARTIN: Tell me more about why you want to have a focus on the black folks per se, given that your previous work was in multiracial coalitions. In fact, ACORN was more about poverty.

...Tell me why you feel that there's a particular need to focus on African-Americans or black folks, as you said, because you're not specifically saying...

LEWIS: Black folks. You know, black - I come from a generation where we had to just take that term and wrestle with it and redefine it for ourselves. But I do have to say, for me, coming out of the troubles from 2008 through 2010, it was a very profound experience. We talked a lot about how ACORN was the canary in the mine.

We kept trying to tell folks there's a new sort of wave in town. You ought to be conscious of it, because if they come for us in the morning, they're going to come for you at night. And we did organize low and moderate income folks. It just so happens that over our 40 years, period of time, most of those folks - and the reality is - most of those folks that are poor and struggling - the working poor, are people of color.

We are becoming, so they say, a majority/minority country. That is, we are going to be a majority black and brown country. And you know what? I'm sick and tired of black folks being sort of an appendage. What is good for black America is good for all of America.



... a think tank that takes action, founded in 2010 with the aim of addressing the persistent issues faced by people of color, namely in the areas of immigration, environmental justice, economic fairness, and education.

She is the former CEO and Chief Organizer of ACORN...

Bertha has fought for immigrant rights by advocating at the city, state and federal levels.... And most recently, Bertha has led the charge in advocating for Minority & Women-Owned Business Enterprises (M/WBEs) in New York City.

People – The Black Institute

“It was our choice to come here,” said Mona Davids, a black South African who moved to New York as a child.


“The only beneficiaries of reparations should be descendants of chattel slavery — not African immigrants or Afro-Caribbean descendants.”

She added: “Descendants of slaves didn’t have a choice. White people benefited from slavery.”

Davids, who publishes “LittleAfrica News”, which serves that African community in the US, said reparations advocates should also go after the African countries, where rulers rounded and sold people to slave traders.

“In many cases it was black Africans who sold slaves. Ghana is rich. Nigeria is rich,” she said.

Shout out to the good sis from South Africa, tho.

 

[Buddy]

All this lineage talk and the acronyms were supposed to be the silver bullet to reparations but all they're doing is giving governments an out... These b*stards used to run that "but who would we pay??? " bullshyt anytime the topic came up and quietly move on. Muhfukkas are doing that job for em now. Won't be surprised if they let em argue and quietly move on.

 

[Insensitive]

If you can't directly trace your lineage back to the south then hit the Dutch, French, Spanish etc. For your reparations.


It's that fukking simple.

 

[LuuqMaan]

All the article tells me is that Africans won’t be against reparations for FBA/ADOS

 

[Fillerguy]

Fighting about something that hasn't been agreed upon yet seems counterproductive.

 

[Grand Cru Boo]

Typical

 

[Neuromancer]

This shouldn't even be a debate. If you're a Black American Descendant of enslaved people in America then America owes you. The end. Not immigrants, not just black people.

 

[Suge Shot Me]

if you run a dna test you will be surprised how many immigrants are descendants of US slaves

Explain.

 

[Mowgli]

Voting matters

 

[Neuromancer]

if you run a dna test you will be surprised how many immigrants are descendants of US slaves

Are you referring to the people who left the U.S post civil war or during Jim Crow to head to the Caribbean or Africa? My best friends family did that.

 

[BrothaZay]

Voting matters

For who