Neither of the major parties support reparations. Instead of staying home, vote for the party that does.

[Scustin Bieburr]

Platform

The Green Platform presents an eco-social analysis and vision for our country. In contrast to the major political parties that create their platforms through back-room deals by insiders and power brokers, we have created a grassroots process that invites submissions from every local Green Party...

www.gp.org

Reparations for United States Afrodescendants (i.e., Black Americans, African Americans)
The development of the United States has been marked by conflict over questions of race. Our nation was formed only after Native Americans were displaced. The institution of slavery had as its underpinnings the belief in white supremacy, which we as Greens condemn. In slavery's aftermath, people of color have borne the brunt of violence and discrimination. The Green Party unequivocally condemns these evils, which continue to be a social problem of paramount significance.

The community of people of African ancestry whose family members were held in chattel slavery in what is now the United States of America have legitimate claims to reparations including monetary compensation for centuries of human rights violations, including the Transatlantic slave trade now recognized by the United Nations as a "crime against humanity." As our Nation has done in the past with respect to the Choctaw, the Lakota, the Lambuth, and more recently for Japanese Americans and the European Jewish community, reparations are now due to address the debt still owed to descendants of enslaved Africans.

We commit to full and complete reparations to the African American community of this nation for the past four hundred plus years of genocide, slavery, land-loss, destruction of original identity and the stark disparities which haunt the present evidenced in unemployment statistics, substandard and inadequate education, higher levels of mortality including infant and maternal mortality and the practice of mass incarceration. We recognize that reparations are a debt (not charity) that is owed by our own and other nations and by the corporate institutions chartered under our laws to a collective of people. We believe that the leadership on the question of what our nation owes to this process of right ought to come from the African American community, whose right to self-determination and autonomy to chart the path to healing we fully recognize.

If you are thinking of staying home on election day, remember your vote can still be used to send a message. It doesn't matter if they win, what matters is that they gained enough votes to show to the democratic party that they aren't moving in the direction people want them to.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

So who are you recommending?

 

[King]

So who are you recommending?

He's recommending the Green Party.

There are a few local green party candidates that directly support reparations for foundational black americans. Not sure of their names tho

 

[SupaDupaFresh]

The Green Party? You mean that compromised Russian intelligence front group that waits every 4 years to talk revolutionary, then disappears and does nothing? Yeah, no.

 

[Yaboysix]

God damn ! NONE Don't! That's messed up!

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Get Republicans Elected Every November

 

[O.T.I.S.]

He's recommending the Green Party.

There are a few local green party candidates that directly support reparations for foundational black americans. Not sure of their names tho

Like I said though, who?

Saying just vote Green Party (which I never even heard of) without details in the candidates is kinda open-ended. Do we just pick a random member on the ballot?

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

This is ensuring Republicans win every election. There is not a large enough black population across the states to elect this candidate. Period.

Stop being emotional.

 

[UpNext]

But coli shills already told us that anything but a vote for Biden is a vote for Trump and anyone supporting anything but voting Biden is a secret MAGA agent trying to secure a Trump victory.

 

[Brolic]

I think we’ll have a better chance if we stick with the Republicans.

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

I think we’ll have a better chance if we stick with the Republicans.

I haven't listened to a Tariq podcast in a minute but it's very funny to me that rather than telling people to vote for Jill stein who supports reparations and has the platform right there on the website, he's telling people "no tangibles no vote"

It doesn't matter if they win if the votes show that people support a platform that includes an unambiguous and unconditional support for reparations. He'd rather we disenfranchise ourselves and yet he wants people to not think he's an agent.

 

[Seoul Gleou]

This is ensuring Republicans win every election. There is not a large enough black population across the states to elect this candidate. Period.

Stop being emotional.

Ahh, so there are enough black people to elect candidates election after election. but not enough to splinter off and force the 2 dominating parties to vie for black votes.
Being emotional is providing unwavering support without quid pro quo in politics. Black people should not celebrate being thrown breadcrumbs if we can have a loaf.

 

[darkmanp]

Ahh, so there are enough black people to elect candidates election after election. but not enough to splinter off and force the 2 dominating parties to vie for black votes.
Being emotional is providing unwavering support without quid pro quo in politics. Black people should not celebrate being thrown breadcrumbs if we can have a loaf.

Fact remains that no pro-reparations candidate will ever be President in America without non-black people voting for him. How do you sell reparations for blacks to whites, Latino, Asians? In addition, how do you get raced based reparations past courts and lawsuits when it's being established now through elimination of Affirmative Action and DEI, that initiatives/programs that discriminate based on race are considered illegal.

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

Not trying to piss in anyone's lemonade but folks need to be careful with these grassroots efforts. Sometimes they are funded by the same people who put money into both parties.

 

[Seoul Gleou]

Fact remains that no pro-reparations candidate will ever be President in America without non-black people voting for him. How do you sell reparations for blacks to whites, Latino, Asians? In addition, how do you get raced based reparations past courts and lawsuits when it's being established now through elimination of Affirmative Action and DEI, that initiatives/programs that discriminate based on race are considered illegal.

We said no black person would be president and we might have 2 before 2030. We said Civil Rights are infeasible and, despite their erosion, have been feasible. Japanese Americans got reparations and if whites and Latinos can prove they are descendants of slaves that built America, they can be entitled to reparations as well.

Even if it's not about reparations, a party that puts unions first and common sense laws about climate change and public safety nets, should be a go to for black people.

Right now we want to argue about abortion rights; the biggest beneficiaries of abortions are black women. By a significant margin. So eroding abortion rights doesn't benefit cacs, it benefits black women (if that is the republican view of it).

If we're talking about Affirmative Action; it mostly benefited white women and LGBTQ+ people. That isn't to say it didn't help black people, it just overwhelmingly helped white women more.

I think Malcom was right and so was the UNIA. Black people need to exercise their autonomy and political strength; because we definitely have political weight. To say we exist only to bolster one party over the other is defeatist. Black people's struggles did not end at the enactment of civil rights; our personhood is questioned implicitly rather than explicitly. And that needs to change through the levers of democracy and democratic voting blocs.