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A few Jamaican lawmakers recently announced a quest to explore reparations for slavery. This is the second effort to discuss reparations, after the first one failed in 2010 due to financial difficulties. The effort involves the restoration of a commission that will investigate the issue and possibly ask for compensation from Britain or repatriation of some Jamaicans to Africa.
Most people of color might agree that Jamaica is not the only country where its citizens deserve reparations for slavery. African Americans continue to endure the consequences of the slave trade to this day: Whites have a wealth level that is several times higher than our own, we don’t have the tax base to afford quality schools, and most of the major institutions in the United States are run by whites. In fact, most African Americans work for a predominantly white-owned company, and the majority of them don’t get the opportunities they deserve.
These institutional disparities didn’t create themselves. Also, in spite of what White Supremacy 101 teaches us, inequality is not the result of laziness or a lack of discipline on the part of African Americans. Instead, the disparities are the result of a nation’s 400 year commitment toward creating a society in which one group lives in a way that is superior to another.
The United Nations and other parts of the world have noted the impact of slavery on American racial disparities. The United States, a country that regularly claims the moral high ground on human rights violations around the world, is unable to see violations of its own. Not only have reparations not been paid to people of color, whose families experienced undeniable abuse at the hands of slavery and Jim Crow, but our nation has even refused to apologize.
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ABorn AkaKoolaidbkanate Fowler Jr.
April 25, 2012 at 9:14 pm
First off….to ask for reparations u must understand ur sovereign rights…the blacks of America collectively cannot recognize what countries we are born of….were just Black!
Bob Shropshire
April 25, 2012 at 8:16 pm
@Edward: you’re so right, And many of them don’t even know their own history, they are quick to say my people never were slaves we kicked the british out. Well that’s a lie. History says something completely different.
Bob Shropshire
April 25, 2012 at 8:11 pm
On the contrary Tara they indeed as we suffered and were subjugated under British rule- ending in the 1830′s. The seriousness of this is that they will probably achieve getting reparations. I think we’re in a different place now and although we’ve made a strong case in the past, I see no one of statue championing this cause. I think it’s a list cause here
Tara S. Delancy-Martin
April 25, 2012 at 3:37 pm
Some black folks are always looking for a d**n handout!! These folks whom are asking for reparations WERE NOT the ones enslaved or the ones who had to deal with the harsh treatment, so why do they feel, they deserve some money?! GTFOH!!! I could understand if it were a group of people who actually suffered and endured the struggles of slavery, but they’re not. #WeGottaDoBetter#
Gretta Michellé
April 25, 2012 at 3:33 pm
My father was Native American and I and my children get a check twice a year and it comes from revenue generated from the casino and visits to the reservation. The money stays in trust from birth until children turn 18 and they must graduate from high school before collecting and as it is right now, we collect until death.
Edward J Bolden
April 25, 2012 at 3:20 pm
What about black American I thought we were all black but I forgot massa brainwash those jamaicans that they look at black American as the enemy
Karen Simmons
April 25, 2012 at 3:16 pm
God is my source. It is time for us to make our living and carve our way in the world with the gifts, qualities, talents we have within in us. Let’s stop being stuck on stupid! Stupid things of the past, stupid people and situations of the present and any stupidity of the future! It amazes me how folks can come here to the US, although we were brought here in chains, and make it! Time for some Philipians 3:14 action!
Some folks allow too much of the past to take too much energy!