First off swoop, you suggest building a museum in place of monetary compensation, but I would like for you to explain to the board and myself how building as museum can compensate for over 400 years of mistreatment. I would also like for you to explain how building a museum is going to benefit african americans who are impoverished, unemployed, lack education, health care and other benefits detrimental to daily living.
Think about it man. The bad blacks would buy drugs with the money most likely and the alcoholics would buy alcohol.
First off, you don't know what the person is going to purchase. The only thing you can do is use a warped sense of inductive or deductive reasoning to justify your position. Also, you mentioned alcholism and drug addiction, and while these are major factors in the black community, it appears as if you forget the
ORIGINS of these problems.
You just cant give money to the blacks you would feel could be responsible with it and not give anything to the people that would do bad things with it.
Of course you can't which is why you would give it to those who are entitled to it. When schools have pell grants and vouchers do you think they say, "Oh this guy is going to buy hennessy he won't spend his money on books, he doesn't get a pell grant"? Are people going to mismanage money? Yes. Should you punish others because of this? No.
Ofcourse not all blacks would be entitled to reperations though.
Why not, and what would be the criteria for entitlement?
The best thing to do would be to have a college fund or something and build a huge memorial and do things with the money to help the black community
A memorial does nothing. How would college funds be dispersed? How would money help improve the black community?
Futhermore give me one good reason why black folks today in todays world should get money for something that happend 100 years ago?
Someone posted an essay here, and your question will be answered if you read it.
I understand that there were profits made on slavery and all that shit but no one today was a slave or lived a slaves life (verry few).
SEE ABOVE.
Thats like me saying because Italians were working for food in NY 100 years ago I should get paid.
Answer the following questions or go the cowards route like loyalty.
1. Were Italians forced to come here and work without pay?
2. Do Italian americans have an infrastructure they can fall back on?