Because after the pay out, then what? We absolutely need solutions. My friend and I were just talking about the various needs of our community - reparations yes but maybe another solution, in addition to reparations is establishing more think tanks - centers of research, and incubators of new ideas. One that consists of researchers, scholars, and everyday people to identify issues impacting long-term economic development, designing alternative policy frameworks to address the underlying issues. We see the symptoms, the think tanks help with recommending and implementing real solutions.
You are speaking my language! I love progressive think tanks. I feel like we could do with some radical think tanks as well. I actually kind of wanna write a piece on this. Sometimes I feel like on the left we have a lot of really good radical ideas, but not necessarily the public policy to flesh it out. So I think it would be so dope if we really got into the nitty-gritty of what radical changed look like. I think having a really well articulated vision can help bring people along with us too who maybe aren’t already convinced by the idea alone. I want all of the binders, the white papers, the conferences, the charts, the graphs lol.
Ok??? You now capitalists love to pay out settlement and keep doing crime! No more. We gotta change the whole thing -- soup to nuts, rooter to tooter, lock, stock, and barrel lol
It seems like the case here is primarily about the moral abomination of chattel slavery and subsequent racist oppressions. If that's the case, then are you also advocating for reparations for every other major moral travesty perpetuated by the US? We never paid reparations to Native Americans for a policy of genocide. We never paid Vietnam, Iraq, or North Korea for absolutely obliterating their countries through wars of aggression. We're currently doing the same thing again to Iran. We owe Cuba reparations for 66 years of blockade, and Chile for backing a nightmarish military dictatorship, Angola for prolonging their disastrous civil war by decades, Cambodia for propping up the Khmer Rouge, and Indonesia for backing a coup and political genocide that killed half a million. I could go on. The point is not what-aboutism. The point is that reparations to the descendants of slaves will not morally rectify America. True moral absolution would mean redistributing almost all of the accumulated wealth of this country, not only to those wronged here, but across the world as well.
No disagreement for me lol! I think that there are plural cases for reparations. I think empires know that too, which is why they are so hesitant to apologize for historic crimes because they feel like it opens the floodgates. And because economies are more dynamic than static, I don’t even know if it would require the dissipation of wealth per se, but perhaps the restructuring of it.
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Because after the pay out, then what? We absolutely need solutions. My friend and I were just talking about the various needs of our community - reparations yes but maybe another solution, in addition to reparations is establishing more think tanks - centers of research, and incubators of new ideas. One that consists of researchers, scholars, and everyday people to identify issues impacting long-term economic development, designing alternative policy frameworks to address the underlying issues. We see the symptoms, the think tanks help with recommending and implementing real solutions.
You are speaking my language! I love progressive think tanks. I feel like we could do with some radical think tanks as well. I actually kind of wanna write a piece on this. Sometimes I feel like on the left we have a lot of really good radical ideas, but not necessarily the public policy to flesh it out. So I think it would be so dope if we really got into the nitty-gritty of what radical changed look like. I think having a really well articulated vision can help bring people along with us too who maybe aren’t already convinced by the idea alone. I want all of the binders, the white papers, the conferences, the charts, the graphs lol.
Reparations, yes, but the whole system needs to change for the reparations to be effective. Thanks for this thoughtful article!
Ok??? You now capitalists love to pay out settlement and keep doing crime! No more. We gotta change the whole thing -- soup to nuts, rooter to tooter, lock, stock, and barrel lol
It seems like the case here is primarily about the moral abomination of chattel slavery and subsequent racist oppressions. If that's the case, then are you also advocating for reparations for every other major moral travesty perpetuated by the US? We never paid reparations to Native Americans for a policy of genocide. We never paid Vietnam, Iraq, or North Korea for absolutely obliterating their countries through wars of aggression. We're currently doing the same thing again to Iran. We owe Cuba reparations for 66 years of blockade, and Chile for backing a nightmarish military dictatorship, Angola for prolonging their disastrous civil war by decades, Cambodia for propping up the Khmer Rouge, and Indonesia for backing a coup and political genocide that killed half a million. I could go on. The point is not what-aboutism. The point is that reparations to the descendants of slaves will not morally rectify America. True moral absolution would mean redistributing almost all of the accumulated wealth of this country, not only to those wronged here, but across the world as well.
No disagreement for me lol! I think that there are plural cases for reparations. I think empires know that too, which is why they are so hesitant to apologize for historic crimes because they feel like it opens the floodgates. And because economies are more dynamic than static, I don’t even know if it would require the dissipation of wealth per se, but perhaps the restructuring of it.