Dem. Presidential Candidate Calls for $100B in Slavery Reparations

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https://www.ebony.com/news/dem-presidential-candidate-calls-100b-slavery-reparations/

Marianne Williamson, a best-selling author. spiritual teacher and activist, announced her bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Monday. On Thursday, she sat down on CNN’s New Day, where she said the United States needs to pay African-Americans reparations for slavery.

“We need a moral and spiritual awakening in the country,” the candidate stated. “Nothing short of that is adequate to really fundamentally change the patterns of our political dysfunction.”

Her platform includes proposal for free public college, universal health care, Medicare for all, a green new deal and $10 billion per year for slavery reparations to be paid over the course of a decade.

“I believe $100 billion given to a council to apply this money to economic projects and educational projects of renewal for that population is simply a debt to be paid,” Williamson said.

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1. I am ok with reparations if the money goes to improving the chances for a decent life.

It was not only slavery but the years that came after also. Jim crow and segregation are also reasons for reparations.
You can't pay back those who have suffered and died but you can see to it that their decedents have positive outcomes.


Yes I am a 72 year old white man who lived through segregation and realized as a child I had it better that black children my age.

As a kid I saw poor black kids when we went to the black side of town to get my dad's car fixed. We would just stand there and stare at each other.

Their clothes were so old and worn. I wondered why is was. I never thought it was their fault.

I knew instinctively those children didn't have the chances I did.

I would ride my bicycle to the west side. That was the segregated black neighborhood of Dayton, Ohio, to learn more about the scene there. My folks never knew. They would punish me if they ever found out.

In Catholic High school (Chaminade) we studied the causes of poverty in America. Some of us made a trip to Columbus Georgia in 1964 as a senior field trip.

We met with black kids our age and learned that they were not permitted to cross the bridge into down town to see a movie unless they were accompanied by a white person.

One of their best outcomes was to move to Detroit and make it big in the Motown music scene. One of the girls had a sister that did.

When I got home I received a letter from Mary Peaches Jackson asking me to come back and bring her up north.


Do I believe we owe those kids a debt. Your damned sure I do. They won't get it but their grand kids will.