Invest in education and development of black communities. I do not support cash giveaways.

Their argument is that the descendants of many victims of slavery will receive nothing from this since they will never make it to UWI.

Their argument is that the descendants of many victims of slavery will receive nothing from this since they will never make it to UWI.

It doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. My ancestors are from Italy and came here in the 1910's. They were essentially indentured servants in the coal mine who got paid in script. I feel no obligation to pay cash to others ancestors who were slaves. I do support infusions of cash into education, infrastructure, job training, etc. to repair the hardships brought upon by Jim Crow laws etc.

and centuries of enslavement. Please spare me. Reparations are long overdue.

I too support infusions of cash into education, infrastructure, job training, etc. for slavery and neo-slavery in its various forms, but not everyone here agrees.

It's not my history. Just for the record, the largest mass lynching in America was perpetrated against Sicilian immigrants and Roosevelt called it "a good thing". So spare yourself.

They came freely, and were not slaves. It doesn't matter how much the coal owners sucked. They were not stolen from Italy and Sicily, separated from their families, crammed into ships in irons, the dead tossed overboard, the live tossed overboard if the food ran low, the women raped. They were not "seasoned" in the Caribbean. They were not stripped and sold at auction. They were not enslaved as chattel, forced to "breed" with other slaves, raped, beaten, killed on whim. They were not kept down until the Civil Rights Movement, redlined, ghettoed, etc. A lot of this is still happening.

None of my family from Naples had any of this happen to them. Their children had at least a high school education, many of their kids went to war, had good union jobs, bought houses and cars and sent their kids to college. Many of the people who came from Italy during the 1910s lived to see their kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids thrive. Because they were white. Because, after the first generation, they were considered Americans. And because they were never chattel.

Your lack of understanding and empathy is appalling.

Black Americans whose ancestors came here as slaves deserve direct funding ins some way. Then, after them, women do, and that includes black women.

on edit: I am not debating these basic human rights with anyone who disagrees with me. You are wrong.

However, the lingering effects of racism do effect people today. As such, I all for institutionalized support of colleges, communities, and organizations. I am all for building up the society, much like ANILCA did. I will not support cash payments to individuals. It fixes nothing. One generation benefits and the next receives nothing.