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Georgetown Prof Michael Eric Dyson wants white people to open “an individual reparations account,” he told the New York Times in an interview about his forthcoming book, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America.

The book, written for what Dyson says he considers to be an empathetic white audience, calls for white Americans to give to organizations benefitting people of color.

But more important, Dyson says, are person-to-person reparations like paying “the black person who cuts your grass double what you might ordinarily pay.”

“You ain’t got to ask the government, you don’t have to ask your local politician—this is what you, an individual, conscientious, ‘woke’ citizen can do,” Dyson told the New York Times.

Interviewer Ana Marie Cox asked Dyson whether he would consider the Koch brothers woke, given their $25 million donation to the United Negro College Fund.

His answer: “No. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that charity is a poor substitute for justice. But I ain’t turning $25 million down.”

http://heatst.com/culture-wars/michael-eric-dyson-whites-should-open-individual-reparations-account/

You would expect a Georgetown professor to have a better command of the English language as well.

I don't think so... I think the vast majority of people of all races would find this sensational... afterall, isn't that why it made the news?

^ Robert Byrd represented me?


I don't think so.

If it were an isolated incident I'd probably agree with you. But, unfortunately this is part of the current narrative. Current civil rights "leaders" have publicly supported the same idea.

And Skippy, who are you?

Got one already, it's called: FICA

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Everyone always forgets about Heather at the Mann Center

Let's add to that, no person alive today was or is a slave. The concept of I owe you for something someone did to someone else is ludicrous.

I was speaking about individual private parties Z. How would your above statement apply? It seems to me you are talking about governmental issues.

Not sure I follow, perhaps I am being dense. The article said he wanted white people individually make reparations/donations.

\Ya, well **** him.

IIRC correctly there were members of Congress who have on two or three occasions floated the idea of passing reparations legislation. I'll have to look around on YouTube for a press conference.

Read the bill.

It is to create a commission to investigate what the impact was and to provide a recommendation (one aspect of which may be reparations)...
The commission is to be assigned 7 people, 3 selected by the president, 3 by the speaker of the house and 1 by the head of the senate.

It's a toothless bill that is at best looking to acquire a formal apology from the US govt... heck even if it were passed, the president and house could stack the commission with 6 people who don't think there's anything wrong with the status Quan convene the commission and close the entire tging.

Again you're using the term "they"...
It's a single representative from Michigan. I live in California, theoretically the liberal Hotspot of the US... and no one talks about reparations. It isn't a political wedge here. It isn't even an option people throw out.

You're applying this idea across a broad group of people. I think that's incorrect thinking.

How is it that you guys are arguing this crap during a Playoff game?

Not a fan of professional sports. But. I'm a diehard college football fan. GEAUX TIGERS!!!!

No single individual represents an entire race. We agree. (not even worth saying, but I'll humor you).

What I'm saying is that you're giving equal credence.
As a person who values education I'm surprised that you'd say the words of a KKK leader would hold as much merit as those of a professor.

Yeah.....hands down one of THE biggest reasons......is leaving the White House in 4 days!


Race baiting US hating community organizer from Chicago and his privileged wife

You mean he'll turn white when he's not..??

YES....yes it did......ha was Black=ish @ Best

Being a Southerner, I guess I have a little stock in this discussion.

Slavery was a horrible thing, and guilty parties should make it right.


I will pay one million in reparations to each slave my family owned.

Come on slave owners. It's time to do the right thing.

The reason that our country struggles with racism is because every race you can think of lives in this country.

One thing that humans do very well is discriminate against others that aren't a part of their group. It's ingrained into our genome, and it's something we have to overcome. We're thousands of years a way from an evolutionary change in that regard.

Studies have shown this... we discriminate by default... it's a survival instinct that isn't going away any time soon.

so, if there was only one race we'd be ok..??