“Reparations Happy Hour,”

[Pete]

Moto and spin fuck should smile over this one..

 

“Reparations Happy Hour,” which was held in Portland, Ore., invited black, brown and indigenous people to a bar and gave them $10 bills as they arrived. The event was mostly funded by white people who were asked not to attend.CreditCameron Whitten

In Portland, Ore., organizers of the “Reparations Happy Hour” invited black, brown and indigenous people to a bar and handed them $10 bills as they arrived, a small but symbolic gift mostly funded by white people who were asked not to attend.

Brown Hope, a local activist organization, wanted the event, which was held on Monday, to be a space for people of color in a mostly white city to meet one another, discuss policy issues and plan potential action.

While it was far from the full-scale reparations sought by some as penance for the horrors of slavery and continuing racial injustice, Cameron Whitten, the 27-year-old activist who organized the event, said there was one similarity: It made attendees feel as if their pain were valued and understood.

“It was only $10, but when I saw them I saw their eyes light up,” he said. “What I saw there was that people felt like they were finally seen.”

Mr. Whitten said he hoped the event, in addition to building community, would call attention to reparations, the concept that black people should be financially compensated for the generations of trauma that preceded them.

The subject has been the source of spirited debate but has not attracted widespread support. In 2016, an Exclusive Point Taken-Marist Poll found 68 percent of Americans were opposed to reparations, including 81 percent of white people. Among black people, 58 percent supported it and 35 percent were opposed.

In 2014, the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates made a case for reparations in The Atlantic, and The New York Times has published a variety of viewpoints on the topic.

Activists are pinning hopes on H.R. 40, a bill introduced in Congress in January 2017 that would study reparations proposals. It was introduced by Representative John Conyers Jr., a Democrat from Michigan who left Congress in December amid harassment allegations.

Ron Daniels, the president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, a group that supports reparations, said they would be necessary for America to “fully heal itself.” Any efforts to bring attention to the idea, including a happy hour bearing that name in Portland, could help people organize around the issue, he said.

“Hopefully out of that experience there’s some education that takes place,” Mr. Daniels said.

There was enough interest in the concept to fund occasional happy hours for the rest of the year, though they will be renamed to “Reparations Power Hour” out of concern that the “happy hour” label was unwelcoming to people who do not drink, Mr. Whitten said.

Anticipating some criticism, he noted that it was not meant to diminish the seriousness of reparations. Should anyone question why white people were not invited, he said, “They show up by donating to make sure the event happens.” More than 100 people, not all of them white, donated, he said.

“White people, we have love for you, and we’re going to see you. We can’t not see you,” he said. “Once a month we’re going to have these two special hours that we cannot get anywhere else.”

Correction

: May 26, 2018

An earlier version of a picture caption with this article, using information from an event organizer, misstated the given name of a woman who attended “Reparations Happy Hour.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/26/us/reparations-happy-hour-portland.html

 

[Angry ginger]

  SMH

[Angry ginger]

so how much is every white person supposed to hand a black person to "fully heal"    

 

Ron Daniels, the president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, a group that supports reparations, said they would be necessary for America to “fully heal itself.”

 

[Anler]

1 minute ago, Angry ginger said:

so how much is every white person supposed to hand a black person to "fully heal"    

 

Ron Daniels, the president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, a group that supports reparations, said they would be necessary for America to “fully heal itself.”

 

I say we give them each $100,000 if they move back to Africa and forfeit their US citizenship. Or just send them to Israel and they can have some of the billions we give them. 

[Pete]

No amount would ever be enough. Lots of blacks are poor from being lazy. So of course they want as much as they can get. What better way to get free money.

[Angry ginger]

4 minutes ago, ATOMIC PUNK said:

No amount would ever be enough. Lots of blacks are poor from being lazy. So of course they want as much as they can get. What better way to get free money.

they weren't lazy till the dems made them that way,  they had solid family structure and worked hard. 

[Ez ryder]

19 minutes ago, Angry ginger said:

they weren't lazy till the dems made them that way,  they had solid family structure and worked hard. 

policy took all that away in a generation 

[motonoggin]

It takes some nerve to complain about black people being lazy when the reason black people are here in the first place is because white people were lazy.

[Angry ginger]

3 minutes ago, motonoggin said:

It takes some nerve to complain about black people being lazy when the reason black people are here in the first place is because white people were lazy.

they are free to go back to africa and see how much better they would have it there or instead of dwelling on how they got here create a better life for themselves because the opportunity available in  the US is better than in almost all of the rest of the world-  the reason that people want to come here illegally and legally from all over the world.  

 

 

 

[washedupmxer]

17 minutes ago, Angry ginger said:

they are free to go back to africa and see how much better they would have it there or instead of dwelling on how they got here create a better life for themselves because the opportunity available in  the US is better than in almost all of the rest of the world-  the reason that people want to come here illegally and legally from all over the world.  

 

 

 

[washedupmxer]

 

[Pete]

53 minutes ago, motonoggin said:

It takes some nerve to complain about black people being lazy when the reason black people are here in the first place is because white people were lazy.

100 fucking years ago.. times have changed in case you hadn't noticed..

[f7ben]

5 minutes ago, ATOMIC PUNK said:

100 fucking years ago.. times have changed in case you hadn't noticed..

So black people were brought here as slaves in 1918

 

[Kivalo]

5 minutes ago, ATOMIC PUNK said:

100 fucking years ago.. times have changed in case you hadn't noticed..

Your math is fuzzy but it is time to get over it.

[Pete]

2 minutes ago, f7ben said:

So black people were brought here as slaves in 1918

 

what the fuck ever.. you get my point..

[f7ben]

Just now, ATOMIC PUNK said:

what the fuck ever.. you get my point..

Civil war was 1960?

[washedupmxer]

I'd find smart uncaring and evil a better description than lazy

[f7ben]

In today's world of dripperese generalizations....."black people are all smart , uncaring and evil"

holy fuck

[spin_dry]

8 minutes ago, f7ben said:

In today's world of dripperese generalizations....."black people are all smart , uncaring and evil"

holy fuck

The world becomes a pretty scary place when you’re an 82er.  

[spin_dry]

3 hours ago, ATOMIC PUNK said:

Moto and spin fuck should smile over this one..

 

“Reparations Happy Hour,” which was held in Portland, Ore., invited black, brown and indigenous people to a bar and gave them $10 bills as they arrived. The event was mostly funded by white people who were asked not to attend.CreditCameron Whitten

In Portland, Ore., organizers of the “Reparations Happy Hour” invited black, brown and indigenous people to a bar and handed them $10 bills as they arrived, a small but symbolic gift mostly funded by white people who were asked not to attend.

Brown Hope, a local activist organization, wanted the event, which was held on Monday, to be a space for people of color in a mostly white city to meet one another, discuss policy issues and plan potential action.

While it was far from the full-scale reparations sought by some as penance for the horrors of slavery and continuing racial injustice, Cameron Whitten, the 27-year-old activist who organized the event, said there was one similarity: It made attendees feel as if their pain were valued and understood.

“It was only $10, but when I saw them I saw their eyes light up,” he said. “What I saw there was that people felt like they were finally seen.”

Mr. Whitten said he hoped the event, in addition to building community, would call attention to reparations, the concept that black people should be financially compensated for the generations of trauma that preceded them.

The subject has been the source of spirited debate but has not attracted widespread support. In 2016, an Exclusive Point Taken-Marist Poll found 68 percent of Americans were opposed to reparations, including 81 percent of white people. Among black people, 58 percent supported it and 35 percent were opposed.

In 2014, the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates made a case for reparations in The Atlantic, and The New York Times has published a variety of viewpoints on the topic.

Activists are pinning hopes on H.R. 40, a bill introduced in Congress in January 2017 that would study reparations proposals. It was introduced by Representative John Conyers Jr., a Democrat from Michigan who left Congress in December amid harassment allegations.

Ron Daniels, the president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, a group that supports reparations, said they would be necessary for America to “fully heal itself.” Any efforts to bring attention to the idea, including a happy hour bearing that name in Portland, could help people organize around the issue, he said.

“Hopefully out of that experience there’s some education that takes place,” Mr. Daniels said.

There was enough interest in the concept to fund occasional happy hours for the rest of the year, though they will be renamed to “Reparations Power Hour” out of concern that the “happy hour” label was unwelcoming to people who do not drink, Mr. Whitten said.

Anticipating some criticism, he noted that it was not meant to diminish the seriousness of reparations. Should anyone question why white people were not invited, he said, “They show up by donating to make sure the event happens.” More than 100 people, not all of them white, donated, he said.

“White people, we have love for you, and we’re going to see you. We can’t not see you,” he said. “Once a month we’re going to have these two special hours that we cannot get anywhere else.”

Correction

 

: May 26, 2018

An earlier version of a picture caption with this article, using information from an event organizer, misstated the given name of a woman who attended “Reparations Happy Hour.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/26/us/reparations-happy-hour-portland.html

 

It’s a gathering for fat white chicks to get some and dripper to be scared. It’s all good. 

Edited May 29, 2018 by spin_dry

[Ez ryder]

46 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

The world becomes a pretty scary place when you’re an 82er.  

remind us all why you spend so much time biking in maple grove when the north Minneapolis bike trail system is,so much better .he'll why own property in the grove or whiteville wi when there at so many bargains to be had with your peeps of west Broadway or even south in powderhorn park . 

[spin_dry]

Just now, Ez ryder said:

remind us all why you spend so much time biking in maple grove when the north Minneapolis bike trail system is,so much better .he'll why own property in the grove or whiteville wi when there at so many bargains to be had with your peeps of west Broadway or even south in powderhorn park . 

Um, because I have a relative that lives near the bike trail in maple grove. I prefer the mtn trails outside of Boulder Colorado. 

[washedupmxer]

1 hour ago, f7ben said:

In today's world of dripperese generalizations....."black people are all smart , uncaring and evil"

holy fuck

Can you read? Moto said slave owners were lazy fas brain 

[Jimmy Snacks]

1 hour ago, f7ben said:

So black people were brought here as slaves in 1918

 

Haha....holy fuck...my history books are all wrong!  

[f7ben]

8 minutes ago, washedupmxer said:

Can you read? Moto said slave owners were lazy fas brain 

The two prior posts referenced blacks as lazy and moto never mentioned slave owners ......your post reads to anyone with a brain as referring to blacks.

You are an idiot so its impossible to tell what you are babbling about