Concluding from part 3...
This may be the single widest known and acknowledge fact that is completely taboo in this nation. We can make movies about it, we can see read books, but the discussion of it inflames those involved and the thought of an apology is fiercely refuted. I have rarely had a conversation about this that has not exploded due to the emotion held by both sides and I’m 39. Imagine the emotion held within the nation over 400 years.
The next step is reparations. I’ve discussed it several times. There are many ways it can be done. I’ll offer this as a suggestion, for every Black American that can prove a genealogy going back to slavery, a tax credit of X dollars that once used up is done, that includes the 10 years after the reparation is accepted. It works like this; if reparations are passed an African American would get a family history made. If the family tree reaches to 1865 they qualify for the tax credit. The family tree is submitted along with a W-2 or 1099 and a percentage of the income is credited. Let’s say the credit is worth $3000, so 10% is used each year until the total is used up. In addition any Black American that is qualified from say 2008 (if it were made law that year) until 2018 or before then is eligible for the credit. So if you qualified, and were filing taxes for the first time in 2018 you get in, in 2019 you don’t. Everyone that qualified prior to that time is eligible. It’s a simple solution. It cost nothing to anyone, it benefits the economy, it helps set the stage to continue the healing made from an apology, and it removes the question of when does this end.
Discussion on race, and other issues affecting race, still need to be done but perhaps the festering violence will have a salve to remove it. Is it a perfect answer? No, but it is an answer and it’s a way to move forward. Without an answer and movement forward Mr. Imus will hardly be the last time an entertainer or celebrity makes incendiary comments. There will be more racially motivated riots and crimes, and the nation will eventually consume itself. That’s how I see it.
This is what I think, what do you think?
2 comments:
Amist all the Don Imus mess of which I do not agree with, it is as much stunning to me as a black man and father with a daughter, to believe what I just heard Mr. Bob Johnson founder of BET say as a guess on MSNBC. Although he saw fit to express his outrage over Mr. Imus remarks towards our black women and more inportantly the black community at large, unconciously or maybe conciously still thought that it was not much he could do to put a stop to the vile language used by many well known black rappers and comedians who make aliving as did Mr. Imus daily degrading the black women and the black community as well. I am outraged by his cowardly suggestion that maybe there should be some type of dialog about the later in the near future. If Mr. Imus who is denied the opportunity to continue to make a living by his remarks, then how in the the face of the black community can he and other powerful black who have the power and authority to initiate an "Enough Is Enough" policy at BET and any other venues, even utter such a shameful comment. Oh yeah I forgot, this is how Mr. Johnson makes his living. We indeed need a new understanding of black power and leadership in the black community. Selah!jes
I thank you for your response.
I understand the point you are making and I would suggest you look at my most recent 3 posts. I take on, again, the issue of gansta rap and it's influence.
I have long held that we should not accept gansta rap, or the crimial rappers that populate the music sub-genre today. If you look through the various posts I believe you will see that this is a position I have held since the inception of this blog, it isn't a recent revelation.
Again I thank you for your opinion, though I do stand by my position that Mr. Imus should be fired. I equally feel that gansta rap should not be allowed to continue.
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