Many stupid ideas have come in the systematic creation of group think in this country "reperations" is one of those things.
Reperations ignores the fact that the US government/Colonial government was a force that freed many slaves.
the role of abolitonists to the freedom of slaves.
the role of Africans in selling them into slavery.
The blame can go back to multiple countries that don't even have the capacity to pay for reperations
but the NAACP thinks that is where they need to go.
The NAACP will target private companies as part of its economic agenda, seeking reparations from corporations with historical ties to slavery and boycotting companies that refuse to participate in its annual business diversity report card.
When black kids are getting poor educations in the inner cities, the NAACP isn't going out there and pressing on that issue.
When black parents are not just allowing, but encouraging their children to fail in this society the NAACP is silent on this issue.
But when a company can be shook down for cash, the NAACP has their hands out.
This is simply repugnant.
"Many of the problems we have now including poverty, disparities in health care and incarcerations can be directly tied to slavery."
And people can ( I don't agree) that the Black community was better off using statistics under Jim crow then they are today. So If black people had more thrift, better family cohesion, and better prosperity then they do now in much of the country that is a spit in the face to this odious line of logic.
now I will again repeat I don't agree with those uses of statistics but it shows that slavery lead to black poverty is ludicrous.
She said two banks trying to do business with Chicago have recently apologized for their role in slavery and promised to make amends by offering scholarships to blacks and money for other education projects that benefit blacks.
J.P. Morgan Chase Bank recently completed an examination of its history and found that two financial institutions it absorbed years ago -- Citizens Bank and Canal Bank in Louisiana -- had owned more than 1,250 black people until the Civil War, procured as collateral on defaulted loans.
The company apologized and officials said it will start a $5 million scholarship program for children in Louisiana.
Wachovia Corp. was accused by a Chicago alderman of lying last month when it submitted its statement in January stating it had no knowledge of any involvement with slavery. The Charlotte, N.C.-based company later apologized and indicated that it would create an education fund or contribute money toward black history education.
But... if Black schools are failing, an issue the NAACP isn't pushing hard enough or even in my view at all how do such things as Black History education help? Look at the number of civil rights leaders and black elected officals who refuse to speak out during black history month...they know that by diversifying black history you trivialize it.
and by making education funds -in this manner- and shaking down the money of people who never owned slaves because a company they now own or are clients of, AT ONE TIME did is insulting to those people.
Almost every business has at least an indirect link to slavery, he said. For example, some railroad and Southern utility companies can trace their roots to businesses that used slave labor. Textile companies, for example, use cotton that was grown on Southern plantations.
"There's never going to be a solid number because the idea of how you connect a company to slavery is more a political one than a historical one," Mr. Lide said.
Thus you are going to see city governments like chicago and the NAACP shake down these companies until they can prove they have stopped beating their wife.
Now unlike Joe I find these abstract "education funds" to be a bit insulting and actually a tool to fund more buercratic allies for the SEIU and the NEA. Now if say this were set up in a fund to help bring all the schools in the ghetto of chicago up to par with other schools ( in regards to vacilities and the like) we might have something.
but this looks like money being thrown out just to show "we care"
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