See? It's always about money. Always.
"Black Americans don't need another study that sits on a shelf," said St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones, the city's first Black female mayor and a member of the group. "We need decisive action to address the racial wealth gap holding communities back across our country."
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/18/1008242159/11-u-s-mayors-commit-to-developing-pilot-projects-for-reparations
The "racial wealth gap".
Any of the CoW want to take time to explain that one.
It’s been explained.
The Red Summer age destroyed millions in black wealth worth billions today.
The GI Bill was discriminatory denying the wealth building capacity
Urban Renewal literally destroyed thriving black communities by replacing them with Interstate Highways.
Gentrification where longtime residents can no longer afford their houses as the assessments skyrocket so taxes soar but those same properties don’t qualify as prime real estate so they don’t command the high sale price the next seller will.
After Reconstruction came the Black Codes.
With the codes came the campaigns of violence wherever and whenever communities showed signs of progress and success.
Plessy v Ferguson wrote the customs of racial society into law and the population was legally segregated. As violence and poverty rose many of those had no choice but to go north leaving properties behind.
Coalitions began to form in the aftermath of Plessy and in 1898 a fusion group of white and black people were elected to mayor and a majority of the city council of Wilmington, NC.
The electorally defeated whites led an armed attack on city hall and literally, violently took over the government.
That bring us to era of lynchings and laws against literally everything, one had three choices:
Try and be invisible.
Let your guard down and get charged for loitering and go to prison.
Try to organize the people in your community and get murdered.
That places us square in the era of Jim Crowe but meanwhile the majority of 5he people arent able to generate legacy across the generations.
Etc. etc. etc.
A variety of people have been horrifically harmed through the 20th C but the reactions to those actions has also varied.
The Japanese internment was a travesty but in the end reparations were sought and won.
Holocaust survivors received restitution. Who could object?
But when blacks talk about reparations immediately folks look to slavery and conversation goes off the rails.
The thing is, the bulk of generational wealth and smashed opportunities took place in the 20th and there are living survivors of Tulsa.
Victims of racial hate have the right to seek redress and we’re reminded to never let it happen again to never forget.
But for black people it’s always 5he same response, “get over it.”
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