Ta-Nehisi Coates and Shelby Steele are debating reparations on This Week...Link added

[Nomadum]

Reparations will never be done, because if the government pays back the descendants of African slaves then what of Native Americans? what of the Asian community that was abused and exploited during the time of the building of the railroad system?

I don't want no fukking reparations if I'm still going to be seen as a nigg_er at the end of the day. fukk does alot of money do to me being treated fairly? foh

 

[Quinn]

Sadly this is what we see too much of with many members of the older generation. White supremacy controls much of their subconscious to such a degree that they willingly ignore its evil. To suggest that nothing be done to right the wrongs that have been done in this country is not only ahistorical but illogical. No one believes that a thief does not owe back what they've stolen. No one. To suggest otherwise is ignorant or willfully ignorant, which is also evil in nature.

 

[The Real]

Coates was seriously outclassed in that debate.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Steele wrote this in 2007.

 

[Mowgli]

dat stare

I'll raise you one sir

 

[tmonster]

I'll raise you one sir

dat sideeye

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Shelby Steele looks Cape Verdean. That might explain his c00nery.

 

[rapbeats]

My friends this is what you call RACIST THEATER. GIve me one ridicoulous c00nish sounding black. and one on the opposite side. and guess whos the moderator? You've guessed it... A white person.


There isnt one good reason to have this debate on live TV with a white person as the mod. NON.

 

[NZA]

Steele wrote this in 2007.

http://www.digitalpodcast.com/items/1112889

it was his interview promoting that book on bill moyers show that put him on the map for me. it made me feel sorry for him.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Everyone prolly already read it, but for the lurkers who don't know, Coates wrote the most important piece on reparations...maybe ever. Not because it's good (though it is), but because the number of White people who are listening actually went up from this.

The Case for Reparations


How Ta-Nehisi Coates Made Reparations Mainstream


None of this saying that everyone's personal success isn't their own responsibility. It just makes sense to provide a counter in the system to the active measures taken to keep an entire body of people down.

 

[tmonster]

http://www.digitalpodcast.com/items/1112889

it was his interview promoting that book on bill moyers show that put him on the map for me. it made me feel sorry for him.

synopsis? I ain't willing to submit myself to his empty rhetoric

 

[tmonster]

Everyone prolly already read it, but for the lurkers who don't know, Coates wrote the most important piece on reparations...maybe ever. Not because it's good (though it is), but because the number of White people who are listening actually went up from this.

The Case for Reparations


How Ta-Nehisi Coates Made Reparations Mainstream


None of this saying that everyone's personal success isn't their own responsibility. It just makes sense to provide a counter in the system to the active measures taken to keep an entire body of people down.

great mod level post for this thread rep

 

[NZA]

synopsis? I ain't willing to submit myself to his empty rhetoric

-obama is a "bargainer" who seeks to make white people feel comfortable in exchange for political gain
-blacks view racial resentment as a form of power
-whites are terrified of being labeled racist
-steele feels bad about being seen as a c00n


the funny thing is he seemed to forget to support his prediction that obama was going to lose. he was just being a "woe is me" uncle tom for about a half hour and never picked up on the irony that he is the actual bargainer.

 

[tmonster]

-obama is a "bargainer" who seeks to make white people feel comfortable in exchange for political gain
-blacks view racial resentment as a form of power
-whites are terrified of being labeled racist
-steele feels bad about being seen as a c00n


the funny thing is he seemed to forget to support his prediction that obama was going to lose. he was just being a "woe is me" uncle tom for about a half hour and never picked up on the irony that he is the actual bargainer.

thank you

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

It's not the role of government to do social engineering.

Slavery, jim crow, sharecropping, redlining, loan discrimination, job discrimination, anti-black terrorism, the drug war, the prison-industrial complex are all social engineering, Skippy.