1. Who will collect it?

2. Who will pay for it?

3. And who will get it?

My ancestors came to the US in 1912.

Decades after slavery ended.

Why should any of us pay into these reparations?

have the intended impact?

on mobilizing the Republican and independent base.

I *know* the Republicans are just hoping we make this a serious issue, because anywhere outside of heavily Democratic districts it pisses people off, big time, and so quickly that *no* argument is even going to reach them.

But there are segments of the Democratic Party to which it's important, at least as a symbolic issue.

To be confronted with the impacts of Slavery that was supported by the United States Government were profits were made for decades of the backs of the enslaved, kidnapped, raped and maimed bodies, minds and spirit of African (American) Descendants of Slaves?

Really now?

Well, well. Maybe it is way past time to deal with this issue if "pissed off" is the only response that can be gathered.

For those whose families came here after slavery.

They Republicans are just hoping to hell we run with it.

It's even only an issue (in a 'pro' way) to the voters who will already vote Democratic. I don't think you'll find any non heavily partisan Democratic voters who would even consider it anything other than a laughable and idiotic idea. But hey, who needs to win elections?

2016 quote from President Obama. (from Slate)

"In late 2016, Barack Obama dismissed the idea of reparations during an interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, saying: “As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation’s resources over a long period of time to make that right.” The president went on to note, wisely, “It’s hard to find the model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for those kinds of efforts.”
Further, he went on to say that he was “not so optimistic as to think you would ever be able to garner a majority of the American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kind of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people."

We think his views have changed --- if one can understand the meaning behind these words at a recent memorial service for Ermias Asghedom-- aka - Nipsey Hussle:

Only 26% of the public support reparations so of course he is not going to come out for it. I'm glad there is pressure on the Democrats this time around. Neither of the 2016 candidates supported reparations either but Sanders said if the Senate and House passed he would sign it.

They criticized Bernie Sanders for "jumping on the reparations bandwagon" and one argument was it would mobilize the racists.

I just don't understand that when there was recently black church fires and reparations doesn't have anything to do with it.

ADOS's. Typical. Okay, let's play for a bit:

1. Who will collect it?

It does not have to be "Collected" the Government OWES the Debt. Read up:

Reparations for slavery is one of the only things the US doesn't pay reparations for.

Well, when you put it like that, I guess you have a point. But has anyone ever received reparations from like what you’re talking about?
Yes. As recently as 1988, the U.S. paid $20,000 to each survivor of Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. The family members of the Tuskegee Experiment were paid a total of $10 million in reparations by the U.S. government and the state of North Carolina a paid $10 million to the victims of forced sterilizations. Florida paid $3.36 million to the victims and survivors of a 1923 mass lynching in Rosewood.

The U.S. has also supported German payments to victims of the Holocaust and the treaties that ended World War I and World War II included reparations. And when Haiti took its independence from the French, the U.S. sent warships to ensure that slave owners received reparations. Plus, the U.S. is still making reparations to the descendants of Civil War veterans.

https://www.theroot.com/why-everyones-talking-about-reparations-explained-1832937484

After slavery there was Jim Crow, redlining, and mass incarceration.

created the modern middle class during the early 20th century, blacks kept out of it.

That is on top of slavery and the fact blacks were kept out of the Homestead Act for white pioneers.

Time to repair that.

reparation for all the land being stolen from my Native American ancestors,,,,,??????

And I’m pretty certain that Georgetown, like everything, is sitting on some tribal land. Maybe give they back first?

right the wrong that the Wasicu have done to all people of color. I want their self recognition of what they have done and are still doing, in addition to changing their policies and hearts. Damn their stinking money.

When the Nazi who seized my grandfather's wallet in Auschwitz returns it, I will give all the money in it as reparations for slavery.

Have anything to do with Auschwitz? One thing for sure, is the United States Government made laws to expand and support the enslaving of African (American) Descendants of Slaves.

Members of my family were killed by the Nazis because they were Jews. So should I get reparations?

No, when that Nazi returns my grandfather's wallet, African-Americans can have all the money in it. Don't hold your breath

Germany did pay reparations and the US government backed them.

Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Reparations Agreement between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Luxemburger Abkommen "Luxembourg Agreement" or Wiedergutmachungsabkommen "Wiedergutmachung Agreement",[1] Hebrew: הסכם השילומים Heskem HaShillumim "Reparations Agreement&quot was signed on September 10, 1952, and entered in force on March 27, 1953.[2] According to the Agreement, West Germany was to pay Israel for the costs of "resettling so great a number of uprooted and destitute Jewish refugees" after the war, and to compensate individual Jews, via the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, for losses in Jewish livelihood and property resulting from Nazi persecution.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_Agreement_between_Israel_and_West_Germany




U.S. begins paying out reparations from France to Holocaust survivors and their heirs

The State Department has paid or approved 90 claims for a total $11 million in reparations from France to former World War II prisoners who were carried to Nazi death camps in French trains — the first French reparations paid to Holocaust survivors living in the United States, officials said Thursday.

The payments apply to Holocaust survivors who were deported from France to concentration camps on stifling trains operated by the state-owned French railway, SNCF, or, if the survivors have died, to their spouses or heirs. It is the first French compensation to Holocaust survivors who settled in the United States as well as Israel, Canada and other countries that haven’t had a reparations agreement with France.

It’s also the first World War II reparations program to include heirs considered to be “standing in the shoes” of people who died before receiving compensation for the atrocities they or their spouses endured, State Department officials said.

“In many ways, this is belated justice for the worst crimes in history,” said Stuart Eizenstat, the State Department’s special adviser for Holocaust issues. “But it also underscores a long relationship with France.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/us-begins-paying-out-french-reparations-to-holocaust-survivors-and-their-heirs/2016/09/15/87b1de56-7abb-11e6-bd86-b7bbd53d2b5d_story.html?utm_term=.64fd5e1ca48a

for the Holocaust, because people on both sides, the perpetrators and the survivors, and family of the survivors are still alive.

But none of the people involved in slavery prior to the Civil War are still alive. I had nothing to do with it. I shouldn't have to pay for it. And I would vote against any candidate that wanted to do it.

Thank you Georgetown!!!