The U.S. Owes African-Americans Reparations, Says U.N. Report

We want reparations!

We don't want it in the form of some cut check, so that America can feel good about itself, wash its hands of slavery, and go back to business as usual.

No.

We want reparations in the following form:

  1. End the war on drugs. Release people sent to prison for non-violent drug offenses so that we can finally have our communites back.

  2. Fund our damned schools. If you expect people to be contributing members of society while simultaneously cutting out their education from under them, you are setting them up for failure.

  3. Stop portraying black men as the following: thugs, criminals, bad fathers (that one gets me especially angry because the CDC says that it is a lie), hustlers, etc. Treat us like you want to be treated - as humans who earn their labels based on their individual actions.

  4. Stop paying us less for the same work.

  5. Stop equating our protests to terrorism. History will be as unkind to you as it is to those who stood against MLK.

Start there, and we will call it good.

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