Reparations

Bank of America
AIG
JP Morgan Chase
Tiffany's

Yes, dissolve them all.

Well that's going to be a pretty fucking short list of people.

I feel like reparations wouldn’t fix the existing issues outside of being a token gesture. Would giving them money end racism? Would it erase 400 years of oppression and slavery? I feel like it could even make things worse, to a state where any complaint would be met with

Tbh, the only thing I fear is the symbol of giving black people specifically some kind of money sum for slavery will literally trigger the MAGA people so hard they’ll go full Nazi masturbation fantasy 1488, “Jew conspiracy against white peepo” etc.

Reparations would be a good thing for black people, and if it’s decided to go ahead with it I’d support the whole thing, but I just fear that it might be strategically a bad move over universal programs that economically benefit black people anyways. The latter would just be the socialism boogeyman, whereas reparations would threaten to continue to place the political conflict in racial terms, making the whole conversation continue to be in this warped idpol place that reifies the supremacy of racial conflict over everything in America.

How have other countries dealt with previous racism and colonialism? is America an unique example?

This is what neoliberal reparitions will look like.

we've already paid reparations. Affirmative action is reparations. Hate crimes legislation is reparations. There have even been private organizations that disperse reparations in the form of grants, legal aid, job training, etc.: NAACP, UNCF, etc.

All of the reparations are available to anyone of African ancestry, whether or not they can prove to be descended from slaves or not.

There are precedents for reparations, in 1988, Japanese-Americans that had been interred during WW2 were given money. Native Americans whose tribes had land annexed by the US Gov't receive a stipend.

There's a California Nazi known as Patrick Little who unironically supports reparations, like full throated hard-line backs it

lets give blacks $100000 to renounce their US citizenship and move back to africa