O-bam-a: I Can’t Pursue Rep's Because It’s Politically Infeasible

[ThatTruth777]

Yall are getting hung up on this about checks. Its about creating institutions that empower self determination like banks, schools, industry, farming, etc; nation building.

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

Didn't the US pay Japanese Americans, Native Americans, Jewish Americans, etc? But blacks, the people they literally dragged across the globe to terrorize and rape can't get rep, we also have one of the smallest populations in the states, but its impossible.


Get this c00n out of my face.

completely different especially in usa,

anyone can claim black in usa
especially with the bullshyt that is one drop rule
some people on here will swear up and down that amber rose is black, so amber rose white ass spose to get money? how do you regulate who gets and who doesn't?

 

[ORDER_66]

completely different especially in usa,

anyone can claim black in usa
especially with the bullshyt that is one drop rule
some people on here will swear up and down that amber rose is black, so amber rose white ass spose to get money? how do you regulate who gets and who doesn't?

I propose direct lineage.... make things simpler and fair...

 

[Neil Tyson]

23andme

 

[AlainLocke]

Permanent underclass?

Yes, native born African Americans have continually inherited the poverty of our ancestors, while White Americans have inherited the wealth generated by our ancestors.

Black people and White people have the same financial behavior, the same educational behavior and have continually come out on the bottom due to lack of generational wealth.


How Obama Failed Black Americans


Estimates generated from the 2013 round of the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances indicate that black households have one-thirteenth of the wealth of white households at the median. We have concluded that the average black household would have to save 100 percent of its income for three consecutive years to close the wealth gap. The key source of the black-white wealth gap is the intergenerational effects of transfers of resources. White parents have far greater resources to give to their children via gifts and inheritances, so that the typical white young adult starts their working lives with a much greater initial net worth than the typical black young adult. These intergenerational effects are blatantly non-meritocratic.

Blacks working full time have lower levels of wealth than whites who are unemployed. Blacks in the third quintile of the income distribution have less wealth (or a lower net worth) than whites in the lowest quintile. Even more damning for any presumption that America is free of racism is our finding that black households whose heads have college degrees have $10,000 less in net worth than white households whose heads who never finished high school. As we point out in our report, “Umbrellas Don’t Make It Rain”, studying hard and working hard does not enable blacks to eliminate the racial wealth gap. Doing the right thing is far from enough.

I long have been baffled by the tenacious hold this argument has on the American imagination. After all, black families have fought for education for their children against insuperable odds from slavery times. White students who label their high achievers “geeks” and “nerds” have no less a degree of anti-intellectualism. In fact, they may have a higher degree of anti-intellectualism, since black students from families with a given level of parental income or education get more years of schooling and more credentials than white students from families with comparable socioeconomic status. In our research for the NASCC project we discovered that black parents who provide some financial support for their children’s higher education have one-third of the wealth of white parents who provide no financial support for their children’s higher education. Black culture, if anything, has been ferociously supportive of education.

 

[Londilon]

completely different especially in usa,

anyone can claim black in usa
especially with the bullshyt that is one drop rule
some people on here will swear up and down that amber rose is black, so amber rose white ass spose to get money? how do you regulate who gets and who doesn't?

claiming black and having direct lineage are two different things.

more than one of my family members have tracked my whole family down to a slave. Slavery was 500 years ago. It isn't as hard as you make it out to be to track your ancestors who were slaves. All of the slave trade was documented and is stored in government funded libraries and archives. Its not hard to do.

 

[onelastdeath]

So much for infeasibility

Not the same. The truth is, giving black Americans what we're owed at this point would leave the economy in shambles. It's trillions at this point. Not millions, not
Billions. Trillions.

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

I propose direct lineage.... make things simpler and fair...

finding that is even to hard, what would be a good idea is putting money into black neighborhoods, black colleges, having a fund to help black business and business that directly help black people. as opposed to individuals.

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

claiming black and having direct lineage are two different things.

more than one of my family members have tracked my whole family down to a slave. Slavery was 500 years ago. It isn't as hard as you make it out to be to track your ancestors who were slaves. All of the slave trade was documented and is stored in government funded libraries and archives. Its not hard to do.

you know what, you and homie above are right.

 

[AlainLocke]

completely different especially in usa,
how do you regulate who gets and who doesn't?

If you are not native born to the USA and a descendant of a slave...then you don't get any benefits of reparations...

Africans don't get anything, recent immigrants don't get anything...

Matter of fact, the USA census needs to separate native born USA, Blacks from Caribbeans and Continental Africans...

We are totally different...with totally different circumstances...

 

[Londilon]

also being black and having slave roots are two different things because a black immigrant can come here to live after slavery was ended and not be apart of the group who are descendants of slaves.

 

[Bunchy Carter]

 

[AlainLocke]

also being black and having slave roots are two different things because a black immigrant can come here to live after slavery was ended and not be apart of the group who are descendants of slaves.

Immigrants should be left out...

 

[thewarrior05]

So all the government has to do is vote on and sign off on going to borrow the mormon churches information and track down 5 million black peoples 10-20 million descendants and had them money? It's not going to happen and white people would burn this country down if the notion was even brought up.



Because it's true. Being black doesn't mean you have to hive mind any and every idea. Here is the black president of the U.S saying it is damn near impossible to pull off. Read through the coded words. Politically infeasible = the opposing side will never let it go down without tons of problems. You have a better chance of the 2nd amendment and abortion being outlawed than black american reparation checks being signed off on. We need to understand that and take that knowledge and move on with our lives.

You can do anything you put your mind too if thats what you really care about but we see that black peoples pain and suffering is not what he's really worried about but Ill never stop believing that someone will care and do some thing about it and you shouldnt either

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

So all the government has to do is vote on and sign off on going to borrow the mormon churches information and track down 5 million black peoples 10-20 million descendants and had them money? It's not going to happen and white people would burn this country down if the notion was even brought up.



Because it's true. Being black doesn't mean you have to hive mind any and every idea. Here is the black president of the U.S saying it is damn near impossible to pull off. Read through the coded words. Politically infeasible = the opposing side will never let it go down without tons of problems. You have a better chance of the 2nd amendment and abortion being outlawed than black american reparation checks being signed off on. We need to understand that and take that knowledge and move on with our lives.

A thing about numbers.

There was roughly 4 million Af-Ams in 1860. The number is around 42 million today.