Most of those receiving the reparations are now Americans or Israelis.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, formerly promoted by her employers as a woman of color, has 'fessed up to being as white as Rachel Dolezal waltzing with the ghost of George Plimpton as snow falls gently on Vienna, has endorsed the payment of reparations to African Americans, a position held by Senator Kamala Harris but forsworn by other Democrats, Barack Obama notable among them, and rejected by Senator Bernie Sanders, the Brooklyn socialist who represents Vermont in the Senate and who is seeking the Democratic nomination even though he does not belong to the party.
Unlike the case of the Holocaust, an American reparations program would necessarily be amorphous, there being few if any specific legal relationships by which eligibility and liability could be established.
To ask white Americans with no personal connection to slavery to accept guilt for it by virtue of their being white is to ask them to accept an idea that is fundamentally alien to our political culture.
The term "African American" is increasingly useless as a meaningful social signifier as well-to-do immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean slide easily into the upper ranks of American society while black citizens of more ancient American ancestry continue to founder.
If our project is the full integration of African Americans into the main stream of American society - meaning a situation in which slave ancestry correlates no more exactly with socioeconomic position than does Italian ancestry - then we owe it to ourselves and to our fellow citizens to admit that a program of simple cash transfers is not going to get that done.
Reparations would likely prove to be as effective in incorporating African Americans as Indian reservations have been for incorporating Native Americans.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/reparations-slavery-elizabeth-warren-democratic-party-politics/
Senator Elizabeth Warren, formerly promoted by her employers as a woman of color, has 'fessed up to being as white as Rachel Dolezal waltzing with the ghost of George Plimpton as snow falls gently on Vienna, has endorsed the payment of reparations to African Americans, a position held by Senator Kamala Harris but forsworn by other Democrats, Barack Obama notable among them, and rejected by Senator Bernie Sanders, the Brooklyn socialist who represents Vermont in the Senate and who is seeking the Democratic nomination even though he does not belong to the party.
Unlike the case of the Holocaust, an American reparations program would necessarily be amorphous, there being few if any specific legal relationships by which eligibility and liability could be established.
To ask white Americans with no personal connection to slavery to accept guilt for it by virtue of their being white is to ask them to accept an idea that is fundamentally alien to our political culture.
The term "African American" is increasingly useless as a meaningful social signifier as well-to-do immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean slide easily into the upper ranks of American society while black citizens of more ancient American ancestry continue to founder.
If our project is the full integration of African Americans into the main stream of American society - meaning a situation in which slave ancestry correlates no more exactly with socioeconomic position than does Italian ancestry - then we owe it to ourselves and to our fellow citizens to admit that a program of simple cash transfers is not going to get that done.
Reparations would likely prove to be as effective in incorporating African Americans as Indian reservations have been for incorporating Native Americans.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/reparations-slavery-elizabeth-warren-democratic-party-politics/
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