Reparation for the Non-Compensated Group in the District of Marowijne

I agree with Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Argument for Reparations, the black people of today necessitate a form of Reparations that includes the full realization and respect of the extent of damages waged against African Americans all across America. So many problems stem from the fact that the struggles of African Americans in this country are trivialized, debased, and mocked. People need and must understand the extent of slavery in this country and how it is at the base of everything American. Simultaneously, the concept white guilt must be excised out of the society, there is nothing to be guilty of you are playing an active role on disassembling the power system at play destroying so many black lives instead of profiting from it.

In his paper “The Case for Reparations,” Coates argues that the social, economic, and political injustices against black people in America have compounded since the colonial periods. Moreover, even after slavery and segregation have ended, the conditions leave many black communities on an uneven playing field today. To even out that playing field, Coates argues in his response to these social injustices that, they (which refers to the black people) need reparations from the government, just like how the government has done to the Japanese descendent American citizens.

During the study, the renowned anthropologist uses the local lingua franca “Neo-Melanesian” to collect his data from the Imbonggu villages. At first, the Wormsley finds himself as an object of competition as different communities wanted to stay with him. The men thought that Wormsley had come to collect the "head tax”, one of the renowned colonial payments that were subjected to men based on the number of women. In these communities, the author observes the culture of both men and women to collect his data. He notes how men are engaged in war, religion and politics (Wormsley, 1993). Women, on the other

In “The Case for Reparations, “Ta-Nehisi Coates argues that “plunder in the past made plunder in the present efficient.” (Coates X) What he is trying to say is that in the past slaves are taken advantage of and everything belonging to them was strip away and stolen from them, using slaves as a financial benefit of property. As a result of this stealing became an easier way for Banks to take advantage of the blacks in the present day.

In my opinion, there should be reparations for slavery. One reason being that the slaves helped create america’s infrastructure from the very beginning. Another reason is the discrimination and prejudice African Americans faced for centuries. Not to mention the jim crow laws and segregation following the civil war. In the atlantic article, “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author discusses the possilibilty of reparations for slaves in the united states.

Slavery and the Jim Crow Era have long since passed, and you would think that racism should have ended then; yet it did not. Racism is something that still exists today, even though many people try to turn a blind eye to it thinking that it is going to go away. In the article “The Case for Reparations,” Ta-Nehisi Coates makes an argument about how African-Americans should receive reparations for everything that they have had to endure, but he does not give a clear answer on how to go about it. In the article, Coates talks about how racism is at the core of all the reparations that the government has tried to make, and these programs are only hurting African-Americans instead of helping them.

Ta-Nehisi Coates used clear and convincing evidence in supporting in his case for paying reparations to African-Americans. Coates argues that American society has established different types of social, political and economic standards that deprived African-American of the opportunities to fully participate in the fulfillment of the so-called “American Dream.”

Let’s set the time period to the early 1900s. You were a slave in Mississippi and have now become a freeman. No more of the harsh labor that you were forced to do, no more beatings, no more masters you have to obey. You thought of yourself as a freeman, but is this really true? You walked down the street and you see the whites snickering beside you, calling you names and even saying personal threats.

In “The case for reparations,” Coates argues that African Americans have been taken advantage of for centuries. During this time the government took their labor, civil rights, and basic human rights too far. He argues that they were also robbed of equal treatment even after desegregation. Coates blames the government and says they are responsible for compensation of generations of Americans being discriminated against. Especially with discrimination still occurring in places such as the school system, judicial system and other market areas after desegregation. Coates talks about a lot in this essay. He talks about a planned black oppression, in which white Americans are the ones who directly benefit. He also addresses that this remains tragically still unresolved. He chooses the argument that nuclear family is a cure for black poverty. Coates was wise to focus on the evils of slavery and more on the ways in with African Americans have been walked over for the last 150 years. He truly chose a very powerful argument, that is going to turn heads no matter which way you choose to look at it. I see the slavery side of Coates argument, but I do not agree with him. I think the government did play a big role in how African Americans were treated, but is not to blame for the whole issue. The government can choose to control private institutions, federal laws and private banks, and yes allowed this issue to go on for far too long. But the government cannot control our everyday

Human rights are essential for all people, despite their nationality, gender, ethnic origin, color, or religion. Everyone is entitled to these rights without being discriminated against. For a long time, people were being denied these basic rights as they were being abused and tortured for things that they couldn’t control. People were tired of getting caught in the cross-fire, they wanted protection, a chance and the freedom to live. Although there was a lack of human rights before World War II, human rights have significantly improved over the post-war period, and officials are putting forth efforts to ensure that human rights are protected in modern-day society.

I support the principle view of the author mentioning of the ultimate outcome of self-determination, is to have the “right to maintain traditional culture, and to protect their land and natural resources” (p.3). It is truly a difficult outcome to achieve and many indigenous communities (tribes) are still struggling with it, including Fiji indigenous communities.

Rogerick Kirby Professor Leigh Campbell-Hale American History TR 11:00 A.M May 3, 2017 Learning from Our Past and Building a Promising Future “By our unpaid labor and suffering, we have earned the right to the soil, many times over and over, and now we are determined to have it” (ANONYMOUS 1861). African American’s ancestors have paid the way for blacks to rightfully gain reparations from their cruel, barbaric, and ruthless past from slavery. African Americans, also referred to as blacks have been stripped of their civil rights and their equality as human beings and nonetheless have been lied to of the definition of freedom. In the article “The Case for Reparations” the author Coates explains that African Americans and other races that have

State governments should provide compensation to the wrongfully convicted because it is their system that wasted the lives and took everything from these people. In “Reparations/Compensation for the Wrongfully Convicted: Overview”, by Tsin Yen Koh, we see the early process of compensation laws and its history followed by our current laws and its different ways of registering for these reparations. The article first tells about how people began to notice wrongful convictions after a man first looked into one of these cases. Then, people noticed the wide range of mistaken sentences and began to use DNA tests to support these claims. After the majority of these inmates had the same wrongful story, George W. Bush passed a law that would help with

Michaels and Coates both have their own idea of the way reparations should administered. The ideas they claim are extremely different. Michaels finds that there is not really a need for us to pay reparations for things that our ancestors may have done. Then we have Coates who is on the opposite side of the spectrum; he feels that we are entitled to pay reparations to those who deserve it for what our ancestors have done in the past. Both Michaels and Coates see benefits coming from each methods. And clearly they do not see eye to eye on this. But in the end they both make solid points for each of their methods.

The Genocide in Sudan has gone through a serious phase, some of which overlaps, and continues to destroy the civilians identified with the Fur, Zaghawa, Mass alit and other “African’ tribes living in the Western Region. In researching, articles indicate Human Rights have described the traditional livelihoods of black Africans in Darfur as a huge crop. Most of these black African tribal populations grow their crop by farming millet and other grains, fruits, gum trees, raising herds of castle, camels, horses, donkeys, and other smaller animals. Unfortunately, the majority of Sudanese, African and Darfurians claim their living from the land they have to inherit over the generations, which they have to cultivate. The Africans that control the village has to report to the tribal leaders and the regional Sheikhs. Settling a dispute, land tights and the claims carried out through the people. This has to be oral arrangements and agreements, from a point of view, these people have the right to work the land and trade