@idee_fixe_ Awh, I wanted to be in this group so bad! Alas, Terry Ross didn't believe I was good enough. Had several friends in it. Went to many of the concerts. I was in the Madrigals instead which I grew to love.
@LeftSentThis Just finished. While it very briefly talked about the "feud" btw him & BT & ended on his journey towards socialism & communism, there was absolutely no class analysis. Unsurprisingly.
A short list of everyone who got reparations:
- slave owners who went bankrupt after the Civil War
- Jewish survivors of the Holocaust
- Japanese survivors of US internment camps
- Native Americans through the Indian Claims Commission and multiple other legislation
- Miners for radiation exposure
- Sterilization victims
- U.S. farmers during Trump 1.0
There is no reason Black people shouldnt be compensated for centuries of slavery and decades of segregation. We’re not even out of Jim Crow.
The new Jim Crow will be defeated like the old Jim Crow.
We were tired then, but not defeated.
We are tired now, but we will not be defeated.
Weeping may endure for a night, but the morning is coming.