Black Lives Matter Coalition Makes Demands

[Cow Poke]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us...-campaign.html

Source: NYTimes

More than 60 organizations associated with the Black Lives Matter movement have released a series of demands on Monday, including for reparations.

The list of six platform demands is aimed at furthering their goals as the presidential campaign heads into the homestretch.

The release of the six demands comes a few days before the second anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., which set off months of protests and led to a national conversation about police killings of blacks.

As part of the effort, the groups are demanding, among other things, reparations for what they say are past and continuing harms to African-Americans, an end to the death penalty, legislation to acknowledge the effects of slavery, as well as investments in education initiatives, mental health services and jobs programs.

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The demands....

• End the war on black people
• Reparations
• Invest-Divest
• Economic Justice
• Community Control
• Political Power

[seer]

• End the war on black people
• Reparations
• Invest-Divest
• Economic Justice
• Community Control
• Political Power

Why would it be fair for my tax dollars to go for reparations when I or my family never owned slaves - and to pay people who never were slaves. And why don't black people end the war on themselves?

[KingsGambit]

Reparations only really make sense if it's the actual people who were enslaved. So I think it was right to pay some to the people who were locked up with Japanese American internment. That doesn't mean we have to keep paying Japanese American people for the next two centuries.

[Sparko]

Typical liberal "gimme gimme I am a victim" thinking