The first article that I chose was America has apologized by Mychal Massie. It gave a history lesson that showed many flaws about reparations and it also points out some ideas that could hold out the reparation idea. One idea Mychal says is that, “The United States didn’t invent slavery.” It gives us the real reason why slavery was introduced that the African people themselves enslaved themselves. The other main point about the reparations is that there are already a lot of African Americans who are already rich. Mychal gives the idea that Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jorden, and Tiger Woods are billionaires. He also explains that there are many people that do not need reparations and that it will be hard to judge who should get the money.
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The article is from Project 21 and is held at a preconference that goes over the ideas of Reparations. The article was against the idea and said, “It’s absurd to suggest that reparations will cure the ills of people in inner cities across the country.” The thought was a bad idea because the inner cities are filled with drugs and violence. It would increase the crimes in the inner cities. The members of Project 21 said that, “paying reparations would be logistically impossible and add that such payments would not heal the ills of the black …show more content…
The real news’ Eddie Conway talked about the reparation ideas and history of reparations with Dr. Ray Winbush. In the video the two gentlemen sit and talk about how and what it means for African Americans to get reparation. The first thing that Dr. Ray Winbush said about history was that it has already proven that African Americans need to get some reparations. Dr. Winbush said that the Jews got reparations from the holocaust and it is just fair for African Americans to get some too. He then tells of a farm slave that has already been given a reparation when her master left the farm to go to Canada, where she took control of the plantation. She was paid for the crops that were planted and the money she raised because her master was not properly there. Dr. Winbush explained that African Americans should push to get the reparation they deserve but gave incite that some reparations have been given already by giving African slaves
The article is from Project 21 and is held at a preconference that goes over the ideas of Reparations. The article was against the idea and said, “It’s absurd to suggest that reparations will cure the ills of people in inner cities across the country.” The thought was a bad idea because the inner cities are filled with drugs and violence. It would increase the crimes in the inner cities. The members of Project 21 said that, “paying reparations would be logistically impossible and add that such payments would not heal the ills of the black …show more content…
The real news’ Eddie Conway talked about the reparation ideas and history of reparations with Dr. Ray Winbush. In the video the two gentlemen sit and talk about how and what it means for African Americans to get reparation. The first thing that Dr. Ray Winbush said about history was that it has already proven that African Americans need to get some reparations. Dr. Winbush said that the Jews got reparations from the holocaust and it is just fair for African Americans to get some too. He then tells of a farm slave that has already been given a reparation when her master left the farm to go to Canada, where she took control of the plantation. She was paid for the crops that were planted and the money she raised because her master was not properly there. Dr. Winbush explained that African Americans should push to get the reparation they deserve but gave incite that some reparations have been given already by giving African slaves