Today is the 161 year anniversary of the Compensated Emancipation Act. On April 16, 1862, Washington D.C. paid reparations for ending slavery—to the enslavers.
Yep—white supremacist enslavers got reparations for giving up the people they enslaved. The enslaved got nothing. Ever.
To this day the enslaved or their descendants have received zero reparations for building the foundation of America under centuries of enslavement, torture, rape, & murder.
#ReparationsAreOverDue
You went so racist that you circled back to anti-anti-semitism.
Impressive.
I'm sorry, Rameses was never the President.
This is racist for so many reasons and a lame attempt to pit Jews against black people. Go back to twitter.
@jeffreykorn @QasimRashid Maybe if WE TAXED THE FUCKING RICH we could have some decent reparations. It would not come out of your pocket.
Also, if Jews want reparations, tax the Jesussy churches since Christians have been the oppressors of Jews since the Bubonic Plague (probably earlier than that too, can someone inform me?).
@QasimRashid not surprising.
America is all about taking care of the rich.
@Ecthompsonmd @QasimRashid And especially taking care of white rich men.
If they’re not male or not white but they’re still rich …. they’ll likely still be taken care of but the white rich men will almost always hesitate, at least briefly.
At least king charles is funding research into the monarchies ties to slavery. Whether he will do anything about that knowledge is debatable.
@Agora @wellingtonrock @QasimRashid
Ok, so "Woke" now means understanding the history of your own family??
Man, this word "woke" has got a shit ton of meanings. It's almost like it's a meaningless insult used by morons.
@wellingtonrock @Benevans @QasimRashid
Time for a United Democracy instead of a worthless crown.
As I resist the tentacles of conservatism and mindlessness, I know one thing: the greed, the hate, and the blind are the plight of this world.
Greed: destroyed planet, lives, and corruption of government.
Hate: failed nations, economies, and 4th Reich.
Blind: sycophantic enablement of the preceding 2.
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Yep.
Nonwhites have been the target of racism, not the other way around.
What's worse is that Citybank bought Haiti's debt and took payments from the impoverished country until the 1940's, but nothing is as bad as wealthy aristocrats in Britain accepting slavery payments until a few years ago. It's not like in 2015 they finally saw how horrible they were being and refused to accept more payments, it's just that their debts were just paid in full at that time.
@QasimRashid
This is why I consider Lincoln - along with other so-called "white antiracists" - to be cowards.
As Lincoln was a moderate, he promised his fellow "abolitionists" that he'd allow the south to rebuild after the Civil War in order to win the votes to office.
He was complicit, judge by contemporary standards; that's how true injustice will be extirpated.
sounds about kkkristian ...
There were going to be reparations, but then Lincoln got assassinated.
I understand they even started giving land to former slaves in Georgia, it was seized back by President Andrew Johnson.
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