WP: For reparations, give blacks 5/3 of a vote.

[Traveler]

"We used to count black Americans as 3/5 of a person. For reparations, give them 5/3 of a vote.
A cash payout will never work. Here’s a better way to fight the enduring damage of slavery....

"In a report titled 'The Unfinished March,' the Economic Policy Institute found that school segregation, black unemployment, lack of access to fair housing and living wages, and abysmal African American household wealth remain at essentially the same levels of disparity today as they did in 1963, when the March on Washington occurred. Median household wealth today is $141,900 for whites and only $11,000 for blacks. Despite making up only 13 percent of the population, black Americans are 27 percent of those living at or below the poverty line; the white unemployment rate is 4.6 percent, while it’s 9.6 percent for blacks; during the housing bubble of the mid-2000s, 53 percent of blacks received high-cost mortgages, while only 18 percent of whites did; the black incarceration rate is 2,207 per 100,000, compared with the national rate of 707 per 100,000; nearly 3 in 4 black children today attend segregated schools; in many communities, blacks have poorer health outcomes and access to just half the social services of whites. The list goes on ad nauseam."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/postever ... of-a-vote/

The real victims of slavery are dead. Reparations can't be made to them.

If Affirmative Action, anti-discrimination laws, and trillions spent on social welfare have not improved the lives of blacks since 1963 then I don't know what else can be done. I don't have the solution.

[MarcosZeitola]

By this logic they should probably give Native Americans 10\3 of a vote. How about gay Americans? Irish? Plenty of "oppression" to go around.

[Contrarian Expatriate]

How about giving us nothing? I have left the USA as a resident and I will only return as a visitor from time to time to go shopping, and enjoy the few places I liked.

Black America is an idiocracy realized and it is only getting worse. Never feed an idiocracy, let the most able rise to the surface and permit the vast majority to toil below to implode and devour themselves.

This must be said, "Mainstream" America will undergo the same process in just a few short decades.

[BlackKnight]

"We used to count black Americans as 3/5 of a person. For reparations, give them 5/3 of a vote.
A cash payout will never work. Here’s a better way to fight the enduring damage of slavery....

"In a report titled 'The Unfinished March,' the Economic Policy Institute found that school segregation, black unemployment, lack of access to fair housing and living wages, and abysmal African American household wealth remain at essentially the same levels of disparity today as they did in 1963, when the March on Washington occurred. Median household wealth today is $141,900 for whites and only $11,000 for blacks. Despite making up only 13 percent of the population, black Americans are 27 percent of those living at or below the poverty line; the white unemployment rate is 4.6 percent, while it’s 9.6 percent for blacks; during the housing bubble of the mid-2000s, 53 percent of blacks received high-cost mortgages, while only 18 percent of whites did; the black incarceration rate is 2,207 per 100,000, compared with the national rate of 707 per 100,000; nearly 3 in 4 black children today attend segregated schools; in many communities, blacks have poorer health outcomes and access to just half the social services of whites. The list goes on ad nauseam."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/postever ... of-a-vote/

The real victims of slavery are dead. Reparations can't be made to them.

If Affirmative Action, anti-discrimination laws, and trillions spent on social welfare have not improved the lives of blacks since 1963 then I don't know what else can be done. I don't have the solution.

Don't worry about it. We're headed towards Socialism with technology eliminating jobs every year. Automation WILL succeed in replacing about 80% of the current workforce within 15 years. We're looking at probably the biggest economic change since the invention of agriculture. Maybe in human history, period.

[Yohan]

How about giving us nothing?

The problem is that USA is wasting too much money abroad and for good investments there is no money left for US-citizens, some places in USA are looking like a 3rd world country somewhere in Africa or Asia.

To give something especially to black people only? Cash money or what? I don't think this is the right way to go, but it is OK if some public money is directly invested into infrastructure in places there mainly black people are living - this might be anything from better canalization and flood protection, better medical care, a better justice system, better streets and local transportation and so on.

[BlackKnight]

Black America is an idiocracy realized and it is only getting worse. Never feed an idiocracy, let the most able rise to the surface and permit the vast majority to toil below to implode and devour themselves.

This must be said, "Mainstream" America will undergo the same process in just a few short decades.

Nonsense.

You seem to be a simplistic white slave in the body of a black man? A white slave views life in terms beneficial or detrimental to his master. The black man not being privileged with conventional gratification, has "discovered and elaborated the morality of the bottom -- which has produced some of the greatest, most adventurous pop art of the past quarter-century. Black americans grow up in society under the threat of "instant death from racial hatred or with a slow death by conformity with every creative and rebellious instinct stifled. This realization has led blacks to accept that: the only life-giving answer is to accept the terms of death, to live with death as immediate danger, to divorce oneself from society, to exist without roots, to set out on that uncharted journey into the rebellious imperatives of the self.

In the essay: White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster, first published in the Summer 1957 issue of Dissent. The author, Norman Mailer spoke of the coming black rise: The Negro is more familiar with the dark side of life that the white, which could give him a "potential superiority". This superiority is "so feared that the fear itself has become the underground drama of domestic politics"; it is the traditionally conservative fear of "unforeseeable consequences."

Mailer then suggests that:

"With this possible emergence of the Negro, Hip may erupt as a physically armed rebellion whose sexual impetus may rebound against the antisexual foundation of every organized power in America, and bring into the air such animosities, antipathies, and new conflicts of interest that the mean empty hypocrisies of mass conformity will no longer work"

Of course YOU now see what he was talking about some 70 years later. White hipsters have "absorbed the existentialist synapses of blacks, and for practical purposes could be considered a white Negro. Smoking marijuana was the "wedding ring" of this relationship and language was "the child." The "language of Hip … gave expression to abstract states of feeling which all could share, at least all those who were Hip. Their language (adopted in large part from the Black-American vernacular) is a language with much energy; without this energy the same message would not be delivered. Their vocabulary is semantically so flexible that a single word, such as "dig," can mean hundreds of things depending upon everything from context to tone and rhythm. The Negro, unable to "saunter down a street with any real certainty that violence will not visit him, has "kept for his survival the art of the primitive … relinquishing the pleasures of the mind for the more obligatory pleasures of the body. So, the hipster, the white Negro, uses the "black man’s code" to live their life.

Hip morality is to do what one feels whenever and wherever it is possible, and – this is how the war of the Hip and the Square begins- to be engaged in one primal battle: to open the limits of the possible for oneself, for oneself alone, because that is one's need. Yet in widening the arena of the possible, one widens it reciprocally for others as well, so that the nihilistic fulfillment of each man’s desire contains its antithesis of human co-operation."

Mailer goes on to state that "Hip ethic is immoderation, childlike in its adoration of the present," and that it "proposes as its final tendency that every social restraint and category be removed. In the last section of Mailer's essay, he suggest the Negro may hold knowledge based on his own position in life and his experiences and a more comprehensive way of thinking may be worthy, even though it may be frightening to squares.

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-conte ... eNegro.pdf

[Contrarian Expatriate]

Black America is an idiocracy realized and it is only getting worse. Never feed an idiocracy, let the most able rise to the surface and permit the vast majority to toil below to implode and devour themselves.

This must be said, "Mainstream" America will undergo the same process in just a few short decades.

Nonsense.

You seem to be a simplistic white slave in the body of a black man? A white slave views life in terms beneficial or detrimental to his master. The black man not being privileged with conventional gratification, has "discovered and elaborated the morality of the bottom -- which has produced some of the greatest, most adventurous pop art of the past quarter-century. Black americans grow up in society under the threat of "instant death from racial hatred or with a slow death by conformity with every creative and rebellious instinct stifled. This realization has led blacks to accept that: the only life-giving answer is to accept the terms of death, to live with death as immediate danger, to divorce oneself from society, to exist without roots, to set out on that uncharted journey into the rebellious imperatives of the self.

In the essay: White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster, first published in the Summer 1957 issue of Dissent. The author, Norman Mailer spoke of the coming black rise: The Negro is more familiar with the dark side of life that the white, which could give him a "potential superiority". This superiority is "so feared that the fear itself has become the underground drama of domestic politics"; it is the traditionally conservative fear of "unforeseeable consequences."

Mailer then suggests that:

"With this possible emergence of the Negro, Hip may erupt as a physically armed rebellion whose sexual impetus may rebound against the antisexual foundation of every organized power in America, and bring into the air such animosities, antipathies, and new conflicts of interest that the mean empty hypocrisies of mass conformity will no longer work"

Of course YOU now see what he was talking about some 70 years later. White hipsters have "absorbed the existentialist synapses of blacks, and for practical purposes could be considered a white Negro. Smoking marijuana was the "wedding ring" of this relationship and language was "the child." The "language of Hip … gave expression to abstract states of feeling which all could share, at least all those who were Hip. Their language (adopted in large part from the Black-American vernacular) is a language with much energy; without this energy the same message would not be delivered. Their vocabulary is semantically so flexible that a single word, such as "dig," can mean hundreds of things depending upon everything from context to tone and rhythm. The Negro, unable to "saunter down a street with any real certainty that violence will not visit him, has "kept for his survival the art of the primitive … relinquishing the pleasures of the mind for the more obligatory pleasures of the body. So, the hipster, the white Negro, uses the "black man’s code" to live their life.

Hip morality is to do what one feels whenever and wherever it is possible, and – this is how the war of the Hip and the Square begins- to be engaged in one primal battle: to open the limits of the possible for oneself, for oneself alone, because that is one's need. Yet in widening the arena of the possible, one widens it reciprocally for others as well, so that the nihilistic fulfillment of each man’s desire contains its antithesis of human co-operation."

Mailer goes on to state that "Hip ethic is immoderation, childlike in its adoration of the present," and that it "proposes as its final tendency that every social restraint and category be removed. In the last section of Mailer's essay, he suggest the Negro may hold knowledge based on his own position in life and his experiences and a more comprehensive way of thinking may be worthy, even though it may be frightening to squares.

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-conte ... eNegro.pdf

I told you most blacks are idiots. Case in point....

[Cornfed]

If Affirmative Action, anti-discrimination laws, and trillions spent on social welfare have not improved the lives of blacks since 1963 then I don't know what else can be done. I don't have the solution.

The solution is to get rid of blacks. Obviously the article is retarded.

[Yohan]

If Affirmative Action, anti-discrimination laws, and trillions spent on social welfare have not improved the lives of blacks since 1963 then I don't know what else can be done. I don't have the solution.

The solution is to get rid of blacks. Obviously the article is retarded.

Cornfed, I find your solution a bit over the top, but I agree with you, this article is retarded.

The principle is about 1 adult citizen = 1 vote and this is regardless the race, the gender, the religion, the educational background etc.

[Ghost]

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[Teal Lantern]

How is 5/3 of a vote different than what currently goes on in areas controlled by Democrats?
They fight voter ID proposals wherever they are suggested, dead people haunt the voting rolls in dem controlled districts, and some places have more registered voters than living residents.

Five Southern states with robust African American populations would have gone Democratic instead of Republican in the 2012 presidential race, and many Democratic-leaning states would pass far out of reach for the GOP

So ... Dems won the White House in 2012, but what? They didn't win by a large enough margin?
This isn't about helping ANYONE but the Democrat party, with race-baiting as a smoke screen. Sadly, too many take the bait.

@Ghost: Aquinas' De Regno, ftw?

[BlackKnight]

I'm of Irish ancestry. There have been more white slaves in history than black slaves and many slaves were Irish and were brutalized. What do I get?

The Irish became low-level enforcers for the ruling class. So they get nothing.

Also, there were more Slavic than Irish slaves in history. The word Slave comes from the word Slavic because Slavic people were constantly enslaved. Just in the Soviet Union alone (1919-1955), over 20 MILLION white people were enslaved and worked to death. Slavery remained a major institution in Russia until 1723, when Peter the Great converted the household slaves into house serfs (slaves got a few rights). Russian agricultural slaves were formally converted into serfs earlier in 1679. Russia's more than 23 million privately held serfs were freed by the Emancipation reform of 1861. State-owned serfs were emancipated in 1866.