Should Black Slavery + Prejudice reparations be repaid in the form of better schools and money for college?
822245
I disagree because, well I started my life with nothing, grew up in the projects, and have now created a small fortune.  I owe no one!  I will walk on anyone who tries to take from me, what I have worked for!\n\nMe and my brother were the only white kids in the projects...  Talk about unfair!\n\nTake your cry for reparations to someone else...  \nI simply don't buy it!
715219
Must you be judgmental.  You as a black person should know that is not fair to accuse all the black people that way, and instead of converting the Churches into colleges, why not build both, churches and colleges.  Or, is it that they should have one or the other but not both!  \n\nHow sad, just take them back to the cotton fields why don't you!? what an awful thought. (sarcastic)\n\nYou want to be an atheist, stop preaching to them, and let them be.  Live and Let live.\n\n---\nwhat is wrong with that is your idea is taking something away from them, and if they want a church, that they should have, and they also should have colleges as well.  Money!  in the end, no matter how much a college will cost to build, it will cost a lot less than having people in despair, unable to take care of themselves.  Feed the soul and spirit in the church, and feed the brain in the schools.  You need not to believe in what they believe, but if that what makes them feel good about themselves, then that what they should have.\n\nwhat good being an atheist is going to do for them! not much I believe, not much.\nLive and Let Live. for you the one who doesn't believe in God, and to all those who do believe.  That sir, is the only fair things to do.\nThanks.
932001
I can understand reparations to the still living Jamanese who were interned during WW2, but the whole thing about getting a check because of ancestral difficulties p*sses me off.  My family came over as indentured servants, working off their trip for the rest of their lives.  If I want a check, I'll work for it
1015213
How about a school for underprivileged kids so that they can get the discipline and quality education that their middle class counterparts have.
114479
Yes to black sensitive. If African Americans want to be treated equal it should be all around, and go both ways.
1145824
It's supposed to be reparation checks that all blacks whose ancestors were slaves would receive as a government apology.
698419
Excellent!\n\nPeople are all for special perks and programs until it directly effects them in a negative way.\n\nHere's how you explain it to the young college crowd: How about if we take the average grade for the class and give that to everyone regardless of whether or not they studied, did their homework, or even showed up for class? Then, black and Hispanic students get a 10% bonus for simply being black. Do you think that's fair?\n\nI haven't heard one logical argument from any one of them.
1063775
that's a good question. its because the US government are scared to act. it would be call racism. blacks always complain about that there people where tortured and slaves... like they where the only one. Egypt enslaved hundreds of thousands of whites  for hundreds of years. Blacks where enslaved for like 100 years and they still complain.\nSISSYS.\nBlacks always say stuff like well i get put in jail for nothing. then later we find out he did do something wrong.     they need to take responsibility for there own actions\n\nP.S. Blacks choose not to get a bad education. they have all these excuses like they have less of a chance than us. they are just lazy. \nthey have the United Negro College Fund. what do whites have? nothing but smarts. that not our fault... I'm not saying that whites are all smart but you are wright about blacks having more rights. If whites made a United Caucasian Fund, the creators of it would be sued for racism.  ya that sounds real equal... NOT
740324
I am not black but I would imagine it would be helpful to have people from ones own cultural background to relate to. Also a lot of what you get from college is connections and it may be helpful to network and develope alliances with other African Americans since things aren't always equitable in the world at large.
512256
Becuase America need to pay for their crime, because it's over doesn't mean their except from a crime. See it's pride of America everyone like to blame what America and their ancestors did on the "Africans". I guess the Africans killed 100 million blacks on their trip here. I guess the "Africans" shoot them, lynch, burn alive, rape, burn their homes, rob of their nationality, names, culture, customs, religion, and families. I guess the "Africans" call them Nigger, and put hoses on them, sent dogs after them. What about the Africans that put them in iron collars, worked from sun up to sun down, whip, beaten, then poured salt in their wounds, I guess it was the Africans. I could go on and on about what America and white America ancestors did. But they all have too much pride to admit it. They don't tell you that they get to benefit from 400 years of oppression to this day. America will bankrupt just repaying for the millions they kill. They will go bankrupt just for the million they mistreated. And if they have to repay for free labor bankrupt their too. If not the fact that America owe blacks anything it the fact America don't have a right to benefit from it. No one no matter what race should come here are be living off the expense of our ancestors that America still hates. The question is who will blacks back then want to benefit form their expense, everyone or just their descendants.
376146
haha! It gives blacks money to go to college.  \n\nI have an opinion about it though.\nIf white people had a fund like this, it would be racist, but it isn't for blacks?\n\n[no offense]
167307
Race should never be an issue, education takes money, you have money you get an education a good one like medical school, law school, and so on
259742
I could go on for hours but, until most people are educated in history, politics, respect and self worth. That goes for black, and any other race in this country. It's not so much that blacks should be upset with whites because our ancestors  bought them from their own people and now some want everything handed to them along with other financial reparations. It's that, if you look at factual history, all of us (every race) were slaves at one time to some great empire. Blacks were just the last! I do not think it is fair  that Americans should live in a fantasy world and show over 50% blacks in advertising campaigns, music, TV programing when they only make up for 16% of the US population of which that number actually about 11% due to incarceration.
114523
A moral approach to graduate tuition increase. Fair, just transition to new\ntuition policy should exist for current students
83071
No, others are racist but for different reasons.  White history month?  What are we learning for the entire year?  Oh yeah, white history.  Funds like the United Negro one are for the descendants of slaves (face it, that's how most if not all  Africans got here) who were released with nothing.  They had to survive in a world where there were relatively few employers (they wouldn't hire blacks).
1005812
Your question should say why do "whites deserve to benefit from slavery?" This country needs to pay something not because blacks need it, but because it the only way to make this country pay for it's crime. Not the crime of free labor but the crime of oppression, killing, lynching, robbery, etc. Many whites will mention all the others in history that didn't get reparations so that means blacks shouldn't. The reason is because those nations that were to pay them don't openly pay. Unless the oppress demands it, and that still doesn't mean anything.\n\nSee Not all Egyptians oppress the Hebrews, that was cause by one man words. So why should Egyptian have to pay for something they didn't do? But they did, whoever said we don't pay for the mistakes of others is a LIAR. When the Hebrews left Egypt that generation left with the wealth they should have gotten paid. But not only did the take what they was owed they took what Egypt owed their fathers, fathers, fathers and if that wasn't good enough they also left with all the wealth of Egypt. So the choice Pharaoh made 400 years ago cost all Egyptian their wealth, because of one man. But God was finish hundreds of years latter God said,  A fierce king shall rule over them, their rivers shall be dried up. He broke pride of their power, Let their enemies rule over them and to this day Egypt is now inhabited by foreigners. Their enemies came in and destoryed the land and filled it with slain. All because they didn't repent for their sins or the sins of their fathers, Levitus 26:39-40. America is the same way they are in many ways the same nation. They will fall the same why like all nation has fell. They will because they will not repent, they will not repent becuase they have no reason to.\n\nReparations want be paid but Judgement will.
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The debate: How African-Americans/Blacks of the time should approach achieving social equality.\n\nDu Bois: Pursue full access in higher education and politics.\n\nWashington: Learn trades and develop skills first.