the proof is in the pudding. and tonight, the angle says, put up or shut up. san francisco, stop talking about reparations and implement them. start writing checks, bigchecks checks and a lot of them., them and while we r.e why only san francisco, why wouldn t thisulds be a path? for that s correct and right for all of california. governor newsom, presidential candidate newsom, hello.or newsl well, we know why, becausew why, newsom, of course, wants to runn for president , knows the reparations issue is a political loser. s that s why the prospect of reparations, though, a thought of reparations.as mos it s as far as most democrats elective office will ever go . that s because the idea of reparations, the discussion of reparations tells africa ncan am americans that democrats career even at a time whenolicie their economic policies are making minorities poorer and not richer. king
Chronicles Of A Chronic Caribbean Chronicler By Earl Bousquet
Monday, March 29, 2021is indelibly inscribed in history as the day Lamar Avenue (in Dallas, Texas) was renamed Botham Jean Boulevard in honor and living memory of the 26-year-old young Black, Bright and Energetic Saint Lucia-born Caribbean immigrant killed in September 2018 while eating ice cream and watching TV in his own apartment, by a White police officer who claimed she mistook his apartment for hers.
It was also the day the trial started in Minneapolis of Derek Chauvin, a White police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes and snuffed his life out on May 25, 2020 despite him repeatedly crying out ‘I can’t breathe!’
to oust the longtime kentucky senator in 2020. one of the reasons why kentucky voted for donald trump is to drain the swamp, and all along the way, if you look at why he hasn t been able to get those things done, you ve got to look at senator mcconnell. martha: that is the veteran, former pilot amy mcgrath, who was on fox business network. james robbins of usa today, contributor and author of a racing america, losing our future by destroying our past runs me now. good to have you with us today. you wrote about something that perhaps senator mcconnell read your piece and talked about today and president obama himself talked about the fact that in his ancestry there were potential links to slave owners. tell me about that. it s true. a barack obama in a way embodies some of the contradictions in looking at this reparations issue, because he s african-american, but his father came from africa and his white mother is a descendant of the
yes, all of what brother west said is true, but i think that this reparations issue is a really interesting turning point. you know, i ve been saying for 20 years now that i think reparations already happened. you know, i could get behind this idea that we would have to have what i would internally call new reparations, and i would apply my pen and my voice to it. i might surprise a lot of people. i could try to get behind this. one must change. one must be open to things. but i really do think that the people who are arguing for this need to consider what it would feel like to admit, not that things are perfect, but that america had turned a corner and as brother west says, that we have come to terms. when are we ever going to come to terms? as a black person, i would like to feel whole. if this isn t going to be constructive, we shouldn t do it, but i m afraid that a lot of black people in the united states would be uncomfortable with the idea that something really significant had be
don, all i think is that, yes, all of what brother west said is true, but i think that this reparations issue is a really interesting turning point. you know, i ve been saying for 20 years now that i think reparations already happened. you know, i could get behind this idea that we would have to have what i would internally call new reparations, and i would apply my pen and my voice to it. i might surprise a lot of people. i could try to get behind this. one must change. one must be open to things. but i really do think that the people who are arguing for this need to consider what it would feel like to admit, not that things are perfect, but that america had turned a corner and as brother west says, that we have come to terms. when are we ever going to come to terms? as a black person, i would like to feel whole. if this isn t going to be constructive, we shouldn t do it, but i m afraid that a lot of black people in the united states would be uncomfortable with the idea that somethi