Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "Reparations And The Democratic Primary" video.

Let's not pretend like this is anything BUT another coordinated attack against Bernie. This was specifically made a front-and-center issue when Wolf Blitzer was half-successful at using it to smear Bernie with at his town hall. After that, we heard about it NONSTOP.
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@tlobrown5381 CLEARLY the topic of reparations is older than just a week, I'm specifically talking about how this has been recently dramatized by the entirety of mainstream media with the nearly sole focus and intention of kneecapping Bernie whether he supports it or not. You can't tell me with a straight face that every single mainstream media network was reporting on Bernie's stance on reparations more than a week or 2 ago. It's just not true.
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No one alive today has gone through slavery. We're talking about giving their long descended relatives reparations. Descendants of Caribbean slaves, Haitian Americans, Dominican Americans, and other races had to go through Jim Crow, segregation, (many still alive today) and dealt with policies that also economically suppressed them same as African descendants. I feel like this line of thought is disingenuous because you're firstly talking about slavery as if it was a personal struggle and then you're viciously condemning any reparations for other groups specifically because of which countries they were enslaved from, not even that their ancestors WERE slaves (which they were).
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The plan this time was just to kneecap Bernie with it. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. They were going to write a hit piece and do coordinated attacks on him whether he ended up supporting reparations or not, guaranteed.
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@Black Troy McClure Gay marriage isn't reparations, your false equivalencies are off the charts. Do I even need to list the vast differences between those two things. Also, explain what "whitesplaining" is because you've literally just been using it as a trigger word for people giving you straight facts.
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Because the establishment was getting desperate with finding something to attack Bernie with. It kind of backfired on all the Democratic candidates though (because NONE support reparations), you have establishment media and the DNC to thank for all this.
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@tlobrown5381 What is your proof that he is "vehemently against reparations". Every time the media has grilled him on it, he asks "What do you mean by reparations?". He doesn't agree with individual checks (at least not in his current campaign), doesn't mean he doesn't support specifically funding programs to help black communities. He has a platform based around achieving racial equality and removing the wealth disparity between race, so I have hard time seeing Bernie vetoing any bill that specifically helps African Americans. I'm sure we'll get more concrete legislation as well once we get closer to 2020. He says "no" to personal checks and all of a sudden it's the end of the world, even though literally EVERY 2020 candidate is NOT for personal checks, not even Marionne Williamson who is currently the ONLY candidate who you can say is even slightly for an actual "form of reparations".
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@Black Troy McClure First of all I don't know if that's entirely true. The Caribbean islands were a gigantic part of the Atlantic triangular slave trade same as Africa. Some Black Americans likely just draw their ancestry from slaves from the Caribbean hundreds of years ago even if they were or weren't brought to America against their will as part of the slave trade. Secondly, even IF they had ancestors that immigrated here sometime after the emancipation proclamation, if they are a part of a heritage that directly dealt with Jim Crow, segregation, the KKK, etc. then I don't see how their personal experiences, suffering, and struggle is any different from an 80 year old ADOS who went through relatively the same type of discrimination and oppression their whole life. Not to mention there is no difference in the wealth disparity between Caribbean descendants of slaves and white families vs ADOS and white families. I just don't see the merits of your argument at all on this specific detail.
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