As 2020 draws closer Democrats hoping to usurp Donald Trump and claim the White House find themselves under pressure to explain how a win for them means a win for groups the party has often used, abused and taken for granted.
One of these groups? The African-American community.
This month, a number of people fear candidate Kamala Harris has ruined her chances of winning after she insinuated that she wasn’t interested in creating policies designed specifically for the group’s benefit and would only do so if the fruit of those policies benefitted everyone.
Fair on paper, worrying in reality.
Why? The concern by many black voters that they are being asked, once again, to support a politician who prioritises everyone else but them.
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Disappointed voters had this to say…
Dear YT ppl: The politicizing of reparations by the YT Dem media doesn’t negate the debt you owe to #ADOS If you press your candidates to add reparations to their agenda, there would be no issue. The fact that you’re deflecting speaks volumes. #BERNIE #Kamala #TULSI #Warren pic.twitter.com/oG8GNdS4Dt
— BillieBella (@BillieBella) March 3, 2019
Kamala is an expert on #ADOS history, but is not connected to the very community she claims to spring from. Her stance on reparations is evidence of this. You will receive no support from the #ADOS community. Its over, or better yet…Times up! pic.twitter.com/OIrPY056bd
— Demitri Tyler (@Author_Tyler) March 3, 2019
Kamala doesn’t have a plan to end incidents like Stephon Clark. 1. ADOS need a protected status against over policing and lawfare. 2. We need a tribunal with accountability similar to military to adjudicate police violence cases 3. We need reparations. #ADOS #tangibles2020
— ?onika ?????????????? (@lyteboo) March 3, 2019
Kamala Harris is getting called “pro-reparations” in much of the mainstream media despite explicitly saying that none of the policies she has in mind to help Black people would apply specifically or only to Black people. Bernie is getting called anti-reparations for the same idea https://t.co/cGchW8BmE9
— Sturgeon’s Law (@Sturgeons_Law) March 3, 2019
If I have to read one more tweet about Bernie not supporting reparations while Kamala does… https://t.co/H4FrbLdGub
— Ursula Lawrence (@UrsulaLawrence) March 2, 2019
Bernie Sanders’ ‘View’?
So, what are reparations?
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Girl better get Beyonce or somebody to endorse her chile
She already has Beyonce’s endorsement.
Beyonce endorsed Hillary Clinton, she even performed at hillary’s rally and Hillary still lost. Beyonce doesn’t have power so sit down with your comment.
Say it again ?
Kamala is usually an an unabashed panderer, I am surprised she did not just go in for reparations which is a dumb idea for things far in the past and unable to be properly identified. I think black people get some preferences now but also do things to hurt their own lives by having a mentality not conducive to success which is a complex but poverty and lacking is a state of mind. White people have done well, IMO because of their ingenuity, intelligence, and diligence on the acquisition and categorization of all forms of knowledge which they have been able to capitalize on in products, systems, and technology. Slavery and their perfection of it contributed to that but only minutely as all people had indulged in slavery but were unable to parlay it into any substantive long lasting benefit. If blacks are to be payed reparations then all people who have suffered some past wrong including Asian, Natives, descendants of poor whites, etc, would all need to receive something too. Who would pay it? As I said every racial group has dirty hands when it comes to the past as all has done evil but white people just came out of the stew with the most to show for it.
Forget 40 acres and a mule, that’s too much upkeep…give me 2 acres and a horse ? in upstate New York lmao ? ☕️ ??
Kamala is a cop who support cheap prison labour. She has sent so many innocent men to prison. Blacks do not vote for her.
The Democratic party is about to face another national embarrassment.
This lady worked to keep people in prison after their release dates so they could be used as s**** labor.
Reparations will never happen; we don’t have race disparity in this country, we have a class issue in this country; broke people come in all colors. The middle class is keeping the country running, and has been taken advantage of for too long. Instead of pandering to minority groups, put forth plans that will benefits ALL of us!
KAMALA IS NOT AFRICAN AMERICAN. Kamala is an indian name from ASIA! She is ASIAN-American of CARIBBEAN DESCENT. Stop letting everyone in and running their mouths. They don’t get it!!!! Just like BARACK!! A KENYAN-American man!!!!
honestly, her initiative is basically saying she wants to help poorer families in general, vs this money going to some black families who, at this point, are very well off.
Think about (politically) how this would look if this check goes to celebrities like Jay-Z, Beyonce, Will Smith, Oprah, etc. who are dumb rich, but of descendants of slaves. I think the issue is that the other side (Trump Republicans) would scrutinize reparations that are included for families who are super well off.
I think giving the money to all people is more realistic / makes sense. I would say, that maybe you can say that those from slavery families could maybe get an additional boost ? or something different. How would we go about identifying the right people to give this credit to???
^ Nailed it.
How about reparations from the Africans who sold their own people as slaves to the Americans to begin with?