The movement for restitution

[Red Memories]

Some people such as Ice Cube have been pushing for a restitution for the African American people. I am interested in people's opinions.

1. Do you feel this would actually do anything to fix the main problem the community faces?

2. How would you implement this?

3. If you choose to implement it selectively, how would you select those who would give it?

4. How much should be given? Should there be a time limit on how long it can be received?

5. Do you think it would work better as a benefit basis? I.E. you get more if you go to college, etc?

6. If you do not think restitution is the solution, what would you personally implement?

 

[ceecee]

Just curious if you know there were restitutions paid. By Lincoln. To slave owners.

I'm also going to bet that very few, if any, have ever read a restitution proposal. It may be helpful if you posted one.

 

[Red Memories]

Just curious if you know there were restitutions paid. By Lincoln. To slave owners.

I'm also going to bet that very few, if any, have ever read a restitution proposal. It may be helpful if you posted one.

I actually admit a full lack of awareness of that. Not something I was taught in school. Good to know.

Will gather some data, especially since California did pass a bill. They are usually called reparations in bills so everyone note that discrepancy. Which seems fitting also since it is payment for wrongdoing or also "compensation for war damage from a defeated state"

the South DID lose. XD

 

[Red Memories]

so this is the actual bill which was to institute a committee into looking into this

Text - H.R.40 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

California on their own passed their own version of this to begin looking into how it can be done:
African American Reparation Bill Passes California Assembly – CBS Sacramento

Here are some students discussing how they would do this process:
Why we need reparations for Black Americans

Fox News (erg) did a Q&A with Robert Johnson on Reparations which can be found here:
Robert Johnson'''s Big Idea: $14 trillion in slavery reparations to African-Americans | Fox News

Huge takeaways though:
America has done reparations for many other things but never to the minorities it damaged.
Many of them suggest it as more a taxpayer program rather than taking it from select individual people.
Some counterarguments suggest it would place blame on people who did not commit slavery, or that the people involved in slavery are dead now so what's the point.
Arguments for point out how much of America's wealth came at the expense of minorities and needs to be repaid to them, and that it would help the community rise from poverty, as well as helping make amends for mistreatment over America's existence.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

1. Do you feel this would actually do anything to fix the main problem the community faces?

I think it would be a start. Redlining was in fact by actual U.S. government policy in the 20th century; I think the government should correct that.

2. How would you implement this?

I would have it directed primarily towards neighborhoods dominated by people of color with a lot of poverty. I think individuals should also get something but I'm less sure about how that should work.

3. If you choose to implement it selectively, how would you select those who would give it?

Don't understand this question.

4. How much should be given? Should there be a time limit on how long it can be received?

No idea.

5. Do you think it would work better as a benefit basis? I.E. you get more if you go to college, etc?

No. It's harder for people in that group to go to college. There shouldn't be "conditions" when the whole problem is that so many people are disadvantaged from the start.

 

[Red Memories]

1. Do you feel this would actually do anything to fix the main problem the community faces?

I think it would be a start. Redlining was in fact by actual U.S. government policy in the 20th century; I think the government should correct that.

2. How would you implement this?

I would have it directed primarily towards neighborhoods dominated by people of color with a lot of poverty. I think individuals should also get something but I'm less sure about how that should work.

3. If you choose to implement it selectively, how would you select those who would give it?

Don't understand this question.

4. How much should be given? Should there be a time limit on how long it can be received?

No idea.

5. Do you think it would work better as a benefit basis? I.E. you get more if you go to college, etc?

No. It's harder for people in that group to go to college. There shouldn't be "conditions" when the whole problem is that so many people are disadvantaged from the start.

I realize question 3 has a typo. I meant to say "how would you select those who would RECEIVE it?" as in if you chose to say only give a portion of minorities this. But you kind of suggested this already with saying you would direct it primarily towards those in impoverished neighborhoods.

 

[Lark]

Nawh, I think its a bad idea, Universal Basic Income is a better idea.

 

[anticlimatic]

I support anyone's right to give their resources away to whomever makes them feel better.