Comments on Racial and Class Discourse from an Ivory Tower in Connecticut: Apologies For Slavery: But, Where Are The Reparati...

Reparations, I believe, will be granted, eventuall...

2009-07-23T14:35:20.718-04:00

Reparations, I believe, will be granted, eventually. Many did not believe that they would live to see the day when the United States of America would elect a Black man for president, but the day has come! I believe that all things and beings have their time and place in the universe. And, thus the issue of reparations being a part of many discussions during this present time is lending itself to be a work in progress. There are many accountants, statisticians, actuaries, mathematicians, historians, and geneologists who, if they collectively combined, their collective genius can make the figures add up to an appropriate reparation declaration. And although there will be battles for and against the amount, ultimately acknowledging that the descendants of African slaves are owed is a start!

No way the govt should give reparations. Blacks ha...

2009-06-30T22:16:40.911-04:00

No way the govt should give reparations. Blacks have been coddled for the last fifty years w/ trillions spent on set aside contracts, free housing, college, etc. I think the delusions blacks have about reparations is funny, if some asshole started talking about this in a serious manner there would be another civil war.

Bilal, are you at all familiar with "Traces o...

2009-06-23T01:15:24.411-04:00

Bilal, are you at all familiar with "Traces of the Trade," a documentary about a prominent white family's effort to reacquaint itself with its own complicity in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade? I would be curious to hear your opinion of this and similar conversation-starters. Here are two links to more info:

http://www.tracesofthetrade.org/

http://www.projo.com/ri/bristol/content/artsun_SLAVE_STORY_02-03-08_AL8NC2D_v99.1f0f971.html