Call For Reparations To Black Americans Is On The Rise, Why?

From CNN:

“Asheville, which is 83% White and 12% Black, formally apologized for the role it played in slavery and implementing racist policies.

The resolution, which passed in a 7-0 city council vote, does not mandate direct cash payments to descendants of slaves, or 40 acres and a mule. Instead, the city plans to make investments in areas where Black residents face disparities.”

“In an extraordinary move, the Asheville City Council has apologized for the North Carolina city’s historic role in slavery, discrimination and denial of basic liberties to Black residents and voted to provide reparations to them and their descendants.”

“Since the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014, politicians have started taking the idea of reparations seriously.

“A bill creating a task force to study how reparations could be implemented statewide passed the California Assembly this week as Black Lives Matter protests across the U.S. force leaders to reckon with the country’s history of racism. “

“Fannie Sosa and Navild Acosta were tired, but it wasn’t just any old fatigue. Yes, they experienced a lack of sleep, but they were specifically experiencing a generational fatigue familiar to Black people and people of color. From this sleeplessness, the two created Black Power Naps.

“It came from understanding that the American dream is a sleepless one,” Sosa said. “ We inherited this exhaustion.”

“But it’s also a recognition of the hundreds of years of sleep deprivation that Black people and people of color have experienced as a result of systemic racism, a way to pushback against the false stereotype that Black people are lazy, and an investigation of the inequitable distribution of rest. That lack of sleep has serious consequences.

“To help resolve this chronic lack of sleep, Acosta and Sosa are calling for rest as reparations. Yes, they’re looking for an ease to the many burdens that might prevent Black people and people of color from sleeping like systemic racism, socioeconomic struggle, and more. But they’re also looking for the opportunity to rest and have leisure time — time that will allow people to dream and heal.

“Slavery is a regime of stealing and extraction: Stolen wages, stolen life, stolen land, but stolen time was one of the main things. We need time,” Sosa said. “We need time off, we need time out. Our ancestors never got to take a month off for holidays, they never got to take a sabbatical, they never got to take a nap. When you pile all of those together, you see the reparations that need to happen are monetary, but they’re also time and space.”

Reparations from white Americans who never owned slaves to black Americans who were never slaves is not logical.

If reparations were going to be paid it needed to happen when the injustice happened, not two hundred years later because someone was murdered by a bad police officer.

If you want to bring up the reparations paid to Japanese Americans, remember at the time of the Japanese internment camps these individuals were American citizens. They experienced horrible abuses that they should have been protected against by the constitution of the United States. They weren’t protected and the ACTUAL individuals (not their great-great–GREAT-GREAT-G-R-E-A-T-grandchildren) paid for their suffering.

Now on to Teen Vogue, because they seem to be completely devoid of logical thought if they allow their magazine to promote these harmful ideas. They want to teach our children that black Americans are tired because of slavery. Yes, black Americans don’t get as much REM sleep in 2020 because of slavery that ended 152 years ago with the ratification of the 14th Amendment.

People want to know why Native Americans got reparations when black Americans didn’t. The answer is very complex, but the simple version is this: Native Americans were never actually given reparations. Instead, they were given a lot of bad-faith land and peace treaties that were created to systematically push Native Americans away from the major American territories. This allowed America to grow. Thousands of Native Americans died during this time, and they STILL weren’t given citizenship into the United States. In fact, when the 14th Amendment was being discussed on the Senate floor the discussion was not whether to allow former slaves to become citizens of the United States, but rather whether Native Americans should be allowed to become citizens.

The road to equality for black Americans was a long and treacherous one, but the argument that black Americans are still experiencing slavery in America is beyond absurd.

If black Americans are enslaved I must have been hallucinating the entire eight years that Barack Obama was PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. I must be hallucinating every time I see a rich entitled leftist, who happens to also be a black American, tell their followers that they hope police officers and their entire family are murdered without getting arrested. I must have been hallucinating when I watched Nick Cannon tell his audience that people without melanin are the inferior race.

Have you ever noticed that it is only racist liberal elites that call for reparations? They say conservatives are racist for not bowing down to their demands.

I grew up in a small town in the south. You would have thought that race played the biggest role in my life, but it didn’t. I was a minority on my basketball, volleyball, and soccer teams. I was the only white girl in an all-black dance group. They put me in the back because I was AWFUL, but they let me join because we were all friends and loved each other.

Every time I watch Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, Alveda King, Tim Scott, Thomas Sowell, Candace Owens, and many more black Americans use their platforms to unify our country, I am reminded that although America’s past has caused a lot of pain, our country has delivered the promise of the American Dream.

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