"As a nation, we have got to apologize for slavery" Bernie Sanders

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"As a nation, we have got to apologize for slavery" Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said during a recent Sirius XM interview.



Host Joe Madison of Sirius XM's "The Black Eagle" asked Sanders, "If elected president of the United States, would you apologize for slavery?"



"You know, obviously, nobody in this generation is involved in slavery," replied Sanders. "But as a nation, slavery is one of the abominations that our country has experienced. There is no excuse. What can we say about it? It was horrific, it killed millions of people who never made it even across the oceans, and it destroyed just the lives of so many people."



"So as a nation – and I don't think as a president, but as a nation – we have got to apologize for slavery, of course," Sanders said.





I read this as I was sitting and listening to Oscarlypso





No **** Bernie, do your thing.





Peace and blessings.
 
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Trying to get the liberal vote
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Do people genuinely think he's gonna win? 

Do people think any party other than Dem./Rep. will?
 
Giving me a stimulus package for the hundreds of years of unpaid labor my ancestors put in to create this dominant international economy and I'll call it even.

Till then, y'all can shove that apology up your ***, means nothing.
 
RustyShackleford said:
White folk have been doing pretty well in American history brah

-But I suspect you wanna takeme down a rabbit hole of semantics, so Imma past and let you have
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You know what I meant. No politician is going to solve the problems of any large group of people. Can't help communities that can't help themselves.
 
dmbrhs said:
You know what I meant. No politician is going to solve the problems of any large group of people. Can't help communities that can't help themselves.
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History proves that politicians can and will help who they want to help.

If they really want to end inequality, they would, just like taking down the flag. 

In fact, it would be easier than taking the flag down.

Free education. 
 
dmbrhs said:
RustyShackleford said:
White folk have been doing pretty well in American history brah

-But I suspect you wanna takeme down a rabbit hole of semantics, so Imma past and let you have
Click to expand...

You know what I meant. No politician is going to solve the problems of any large group of people. Can't help communities that can't help themselves.
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How the hell I'm I to know what you might if you don't say it explicitly doe? :rolleyes

I never said he was going to be outchea passing targeted programs for blacks. If he got his way, his progressive policies would help the black community the most in comparison to any other candidate getting their way

And miss me wit the bolded. Maybe the black community would be doing better with they didn't have the white supremacy boot on their neck.
 
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Black community elevates in the social sphere, the whole country will benefit. Black people feel as if it is time to place the bags on the ground, finally. So the next time a cop places the gun in the wrong direction, he knows he is losing his pension, then possibly all of his rights. More faith in the system, more encouragement to do the right thing, which builds unity as a nation.
 
If black people will ever get reparations, I think it would have to be based on redlining. Black folks have been and are suffering at the hands of several policies. The problem is that a lot of white people are emotionally invested in their version of US History that they would never be willing to concede any money based on Slavery or Jim Crow. White people are also very emotionally invested in the Police and Mass Incarceration, like Ta-Nehisi Coates said, criminal justice policy is ultimately the result of white, democratic will.

Housing on the other hand is boring but absolutely pivotal. Federal Housing policy from 1964 to present day is the basis for the reparations. This redlining reparations would be best divided into three Federal programs. One program would be, de facto, for older black people. If you have lived in a redlined area, you get a stipend in your old age for the remainder of your life. Another program create a stipend to young people under 21 in redlined areas. The Third program would exist to move serious infusions of capital who are between 21 and 65. Basically it would be like the Federal Empowerment Zones but the money would be earmarked for residents of poor, urban areas (which are almost always redlined areas) instead of businesses who happen to get set up in those areas.

America cannot even afford to repay black Americans for all of the wealth that was generated by its centuries of plunder. In additional, we will never have the political will to do so. What we can afford and what is politically possible is to use past and present redlining as a proxy for being black and from there we can see to it that the old people and the young people in those communities get a regular payments and that black adults get the lump sums that can help them start businesses, buy homes and build the sort of wealth that can help them achieve rough economic parity with white people.
 
What's an apology gonna do when black folks still get the rough end of the stick today?
 
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