That WAS The Democratic and Repubican Party

[IM2]

It's not 1860 anymore as I get told when I talk about slavery or reparations. But for some reason the right believes they have special privileges and can determine what particular parts of the past can be discussed today.

 

[my2¢]

I opened the attached video with intent of watching until I saw it was 75 minutes in length. What particular parts of the past are you referring to?

The white race paid a mighty price in ending slavery, on both sides. Being white and born in the 50's I can recall just a glimpse of how blacks were treated back then. Thus, when I think of reparations, for me it's mostly about the period between Reconstruction and LBJ's Great Society. Those 80 years when opportunities for blacks were so greatly limited.

 

[Auld Phart]

hour and 15 minutes?

I'd rather watch Gone With the Wind.

 

[Oddball]

It's not even 1960 anymore, when the Democrat Party was the home of free speech, anti-war, civil liberties, law and order, equal justice, a secure border, serious skeptics of corporate power, and generally nice -albeit horribly misguided- people.

 

[MarathonMike]

Wrong forum,

hour and 15 minutes?

I'd rather watch Gone With the Wind.

I'd rather pull weeds for an hour. I would get exercise and learn more.

 

[Thinker101]

 

[Missouri_Mike]

It's not 1860 anymore as I get told when I talk about slavery or reparations. But for some reason the right believes they have special privileges and can determine what particular parts of the past can be discussed today.

We can discuss anything. Let’s start with why you think you deserve reperations.

 

[el midgetron]

 

[el midgetron]

We can discuss anything. Let’s start with why you think you deserve reperations.

If I may? It’s because the world is black and white. It’s because slavery, Jim Crow, the “privilege of being white”. It’s because white people have received 100 billion trillion in government assistance. It’s because white racist hurt black bodies.

 

[IM2]

We can discuss anything. Let’s start with why you think you deserve reperations.

This thread is not about reparations.

 

[IM2]

I opened the attached video with intent of watching until I saw it was 75 minutes in length. What particular parts of the past are you referring to?

The white race paid a mighty price in ending slavery, on both sides. Being white and born in the 50's I can recall just a glimpse of how blacks were treated back then. Thus, when I think of reparations, for me it's mostly about the period between Reconstruction and LBJ's Great Society. Those 80 years when opportunities for blacks were so greatly limited.

The white race paid no price for ending slavery because they did not fight to end slavery and slavery never should have existed in the first place. If they were really for the end of slavery, Jim Crow would have never happened. Things dd not stop in the 1960's. I was born in 1961.

In 1992-93, I was involved in a class-action lawsuit against R.L. Polk and Company for sexual harassment and racial discrimination. Due to information volunteered to us by assistants to the manager, Patrick Ivey, we found that Mr. Ivey would instruct his assistants to stop hiring blacks once enough blacks were hired to meet the EEOC requirements. Mr. Ivey would white out parts of documents and put in numbers showing that either he met EEOC requirements or that not enough minorities were applying and send copies of the doctored paperwork to the EEOC.

And here is a confession from a USMB member named Flash in 2020.

“I can say for sure that happens because I did it. Before retirement, I was an Engineer. For the last 20 years of my career, I was a Manager and Director and I hired hundreds of people. I reviewed well over a thousand resumes for all kinds of positions. Everything from Secretaries to Engineering Managers. Both Salary and Hourly. I always culled out the resumes with Black Ethnic names. Never shortlisted anybody with a Black Ethnic name. Never hired them.”

“Since the Fortune 50 company I worked for had a stupid "affirmative action" hiring policies I never mentioned it to anybody and I always got away with it. A couple of times I was instructed to improve my departmental “diversity" demographics but I always ignored it and never got into any trouble. My stereotype is that anybody with a stupid ghetto Black ethnic name is probably worthless. I could have been wrong a couple of times but I was also probably right 99% of the time.

Glad I did it. I would do it again.”
The discrimination laws made in the 60's were made to stop didn't stop because there were whites who refused to follow those laws.

Citygroup did a study focusing on U.S. GDP from 2000 until 2020. The study revealed huge losses in GDP due to continuing discrimination against blacks in business revenue, education, housing credit, and income. The study determined that since the year 2000, continuing discriminatory practices in the four areas mentioned in the prior sentence resulted in a loss of 16 trillion dollars in GDP. The breakdown is as follows:

“Closing the Black racial wage gap 20 years ago might have provided an additional $2.7 trillion in income available for consumption and investment.

Improving access to housing credit might have added an additional 770,000 Black homeowners over the last 20 years, with combined sales and expenditures adding another $218 billion to GDP over that time.

Facilitating increased access to higher education (college, graduate, and vocational schools) for Black students might have bolstered lifetime incomes that in aggregate sums to $90 to $113 billion.

Providing fair and equitable lending to Black entrepreneurs might have resulted in the creation of an additional $13 trillion in business revenue over the last 20 years. This could have been used for investments in labor, technology, capital equipment, and structures and 6.1 million jobs might have been created per year.”

Now none of this has anythng to do with how the Repubican Party today got to be the party of racism. Just because you see the word reparations, it shoud not trigger anyone to go off the thread topic.

 

[MarcATL]

It's not 1860 anymore as I get told when I talk about slavery or reparations. But for some reason the right believes they have special privileges and can determine what particular parts of the past can be discussed today.

This brother is ALWAYS on point!

 

[lennypartiv]

This brother is ALWAYS on point!

But he won't talk about black privilege.

 

[Dragonlady]

I opened the attached video with intent of watching until I saw it was 75 minutes in length. What particular parts of the past are you referring to?

The white race paid a mighty price in ending slavery, on both sides. Being white and born in the 50's I can recall just a glimpse of how blacks were treated back then. Thus, when I think of reparations, for me it's mostly about the period between Reconstruction and LBJ's Great Society. Those 80 years when opportunities for blacks were so greatly limited.

The white race paid no price whatsoever for ending slavery. None. They've been patting themselves on the back for having dones so ever since though.

Being white and born in the 40's, I couldn't believe how blacks were treated in a nation which called itself the "Home of the brave, and the land of the Free". Crosses being burned on people's laws. Lynchings. The fight for the black vote. Segregation.

In a nation where all men are created equal?????? Even as a child I could see that "Separate but equal" was flat out bullshit.

Blacks are still fighting for equal treatment under the law, and reparations are still due for all.

 

[IDIOCRACY]

It's not 1860 anymore as I get told when I talk about slavery or reparations. But for some reason the right believes they have special privileges and can determine what particular parts of the past can be discussed today.

Bunch of BS tailored to please an angry black liberal.

 

[el midgetron]

The white race paid no price for ending slavery because they did not fight to end slavery and slavery never should have existed in the first place.

350,000 Union soldier gave their lives and you value them at zero.,

Slavery existed LONG before the United States or white people ever owned black people. Dumbass.

 

[MarcATL]

But he won't talk about black privilege.

Because there's no such thing.

 

[YoursTruly]

It's not 1860 anymore as I get told when I talk about slavery or reparations. But for some reason the right believes they have special privileges and can determine what particular parts of the past can be discussed today.

Race Hustlers are going to hustle.

 

[YoursTruly]

Because there's no such thing.

That's a damn lie. Just look at the criminal history of blacks that are free in society. White people don't get that many chances. They don't get easy off plea deals.

 

[lennypartiv]

That's a damn lie. Just look at the criminal history of blacks that are free in society. White people don't get that many chances. They don't get easy off plea deals.

Or they get off on technicalities like the Central Park Five.