The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.
Quotes about reparations (12 Quotes)
There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.
That means this is all part of a reparations mentality, that we owe something special to African Americans because of slavery, segregation, whatever. I understand that mentality, but I don't accept it.
Thanks to the corporate cowardice of Bank of America and other companies, the morally illegitimate reparations movement gains strength.
If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God.
It's sad to think that this sort of historic opportunity may be lost. We'll continue to insist on truth, justice and reparations for the victims and their families, but at this point it's disappointing.
These companies just don't understand that reparations activists are not after apologies and racial reconciliation. They want money.
It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
It is ridiculous that Bank of America feels that it should pay compensation for murky business dealings of long-defunct banks. Instead of standing up for their rights and the best interests of shareholders, Bank of America has chosen to take the coward's route of least resistance and pay off the shakedown artists in the reparations movement.
That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.
If Bank of America and other companies think they are buying peace from reparations activists with these million-dollar contributions, they are in for a rude surprise.
Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.