The 1860 U.S. Census

[get these nets]

This is why reparations can not be limited to slavery. Reparations has to include the Jim Crow era. That was literally another 100 years of bullshyt (after slavery ended) that African Americans had to endure that no other group, other than Native Americans, had to endure.

Forget the separate but equal and segregation crap, redlining, biased laws, false imprisonment, etc. There are literally still millions and millions of living victims of Jim Crow laws. They should be compensated the same way that the Japanese were compensated.

You don't think expanding the time frame complicates the issue and the claim for reparations? and renders the acronym less meaningful?
That chattel slavery in THIS country is the experience that is an experience unique to AAs?

 

[Samori Toure]

You don't think expanding the time frame complicates the issue and the claim for reparations? and renders the acronym less meaningful?
That chattel slavery in THIS country is the experience that is an experience unique to AAs?

No it does not. Not only are some people descended from the slaves, but they were literally forced to live like slaves during their lifetimes. There are literally African Americans walking around right now in their 60s, 70s and older who literally suffered under Jim Crow. That system just nominally officially ended in the late 70s and early 80s.

 

[get these nets]

Spoiler

for those who haven't read it

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Even if they received freedom in many cases they could not live the States were they were freed, because the slaveholders feared that they were a bad influence for the slaves. Additionally, many people that had fled to freedom were kidnapped and reenslaved. That was very common for Black people that lived in the North during slavery.

Finally, whether enslaved or freed they all were subjected to Jim Crow laws, which was second class citizenship. Not only were their lands and property seized for no reason at all, but their rights to vote were stripped and they were subjected to lynchings; all under the guise of the law. Another thing that needs to be stated is that sharecropping was a staple of Jim Crow, but it was nothing more than slavery; because the sharecroppers in many instances were not paid and they were not allowed to leave the land that they were forced to work on. Black people, especially sharecropping families would have to escape in the middle of the night if they wanted to go North. Local Sheriffs were notorious for locking up Black people that they thought were going to leave their counties to head North.

facts

 

[get these nets]

I've read some of the wording of past reparations / atrocity settlements, and the pattern I'm seeing is that the victims are identified and counted.The compensation is based on that number, to be granted to proven descendants of those people. I can imagine at some stage that there will be attempts to disqualify FPOC.

Thought about this thread after reading this thread title in TLR

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/the...emancipated-slaves-are-now-searchable.754151/

It's along the line of what I was thinking before.