I wish people would stop talking about cutting a check. The thought of giving every black american a check is so ludicrous- which is why we still haven't received any payment. We need to demand reparations in the form of better schools, access to jobs, land...Why can't we just stick with the 40 acres deal?? At least we could grow our own food. They can miss me with the mule though. They better give us an animal that can reproduce. Slimey.
@Jhoon - I consider native people around the world to be african.
how's about this. They dont have 40 acres and a mule to give us. lets say they had the mule. Where would these 40 acres sit? would it all be in some crap area? Can a brotha like myself that lives in So. Cal get my 40 acres by the beach... ya know PRIME REAL ESTATE. probably not. And the truth is, they can only give us crap areas for the most part since there are so many more people now in america then there were when they made that promise.
I'm not trying to uproot anyone from their current place of residence(white, black, or other). I'm owed that. but i'm not even going to do you like that. But what i will do is ask for you to first and foremost CUT THE CHECK. Then we can talk about free healthcare and free college/tech schools/private schools from k-12(if someone so well chooses).
The reason why its not far fetched to ask for a CHECK is because groups of people have already had Checks cut on their behalf. Shoot we're still cutting Israel Checks. and the US didnt even do anything bad to the Jews. How's about dem apples?
The natives got a check cut and land. The japanese got a check cut . So why not black folks?
And to add. When do you hear a majority of black people complaining about cutting checks for the japanese, the jews, the natives, and everytime the US goes to war and ends up giving billions to countries they messed up(iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Black tax dollars go towards all of these checks. you dont on average here blacks crying about it. yet when its blacks turn to get paid their DUE. here come the cry babies. You dont find that strange and unfair?