Yes. Full stop.
Sooner is better than later.
Fuck your reparations. Tell poor people in Apalachia how much harder your life has been than theirs.
For those that didn’t click through, the key points of reparations (not just a payment):
- Satisfaction: Acknowledging and truthfully addressing the historical injustices inflicted upon Black people and receiving an accepted response.
- Compensation: Providing monetary restitution for economic losses stemming from these harms.
- Restitution: Restoring freedom, reuniting families and recognizing the humanity, identity and culture of Black people.
- Rehabilitation: Offering care and support for healing from the trauma caused by these injustices.
- Cessation and Non-repetition: Transforming systems and structures to prevent the recurrence of such harms.
I think the time to get reparations is when the people who wronged you are still alive. Otherwise it’s called stealing or begging.
Agreed, otherwise reparations are a multi-generational ponzi scheme.
Also it seta precent for making such atrocities acceptable. If reparations are paid by a future generation, then an even further future generation now has the mathematical tool to define how expensive it would be to re-enable slavery temporarily in the future.