Re: Re: reparations

[Rod Hay <rodhay@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A much broader political alliance could be formed, if it was simply shown
that a large number of people lack the necessities of life in a late
capitalist economy. Do not have suitable, housing, education, health care,
etc. Talk about reparations to long dead victims of slavery is simply going
to divide people, in the same way that the question has divided Lou and Brad.
And hurling slings of "racists" is not going to build the political alliance
required.

Rod

Jim Devine wrote:

> At 08:34 PM 2/10/00 -0800, you wrote:
> >I was recently thinking about Robinson's call for reparations.  Suppose
> >that United States was called upon to pay reparations for what they
> >imposed on the slaves, what they took from the indigenous people, the
> >damage that they caused through imperialism.  How many years of gross
> >domestic product might be involved?
>
> sorry to distract from the Brad/Louis set-to, but if this is the same
> Robinson who was interviewed on US National Public Radio the other day,
> he's not calling for reparations in the form of checks to those who were
> superexploited or their descendants. He was talking about aid in the form
> of education grants, below-market business loans, and the like. He was
> clearly against reparation checks.
>
> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &  http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine

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