Morning fam,

I am building my family tree and was able to trace back to the early and mid 1700s which I was really surprised by. Some ancestors were enslaved people, but quite a few seem to have managed as free people, and even some obtained a little land.

My question: if we have Federal Slave Schedules, Federal Slave Owner Petitions, and Slave Emancipation Records that list the enslaver and the enslaved person where they lived, dates, and location, why has the argument for reparations been so difficult?

I’m not talking about the ignorant immediate dismissive responses from some white folk, Black people, (and I probably should include bots that will lit this post up).

Obviously the aforementioned records are not comprehensive, but it’s not nothing. What are you guys thoughts?

Letoya needs to hire him he hopped right in lol.

lol went on NBC News today and decided to pull no punches. Pay Black women, that is all!

(Anchors shouldn't be dragged, this question is asked ALL THE TIME lol)

UPDATE: Also released an op-ed today about this very thing with Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley in case people wanted numbers and evidence lol.

UPDATE: "Is this a thing? Maybe Black women don't deserve higher wages?" lol yeah.... no. Sources galore:

• Yes, this is a thing.
  • https://www.aauw.org/resources/article/equal-pay-day-calendar/
  • https://iwpr.org/articles/black-womens-equal-pay-day-2025/
  • https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/RI_DoubleGap_Report_202003.pdf
  • https://nationalpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/african-american-women-wage-gap.pdf
• There's ALSO a concentration of Black women in low-paying jobs:
  • https://www.epi.org/blog/black-womens-labor-market-history-reveals-deep-seated-race-and-gender-discrimination/
  • https://www.epi.org/blog/separate-is-still-unequal-how-patterns-of-occupational-segregation-impact-pay-for-black-women/
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00346446241301677
• Despite Black women having higher labor force participation rates than (white) women
  • Historically: https://dash.harvard.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/7312037c-500c-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3b/content
  • In Present Day: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm

Made a comment on Instagram commenting on how stupid racism is and had to censor it just to be able to comment. Meanwhile weeks ago reported a racist page with a Nazi clown saying the N word and other hate speech and it is ok. So now we know when free speech is an issue.

Inspired by the recent reparations post on here, how do you think Asians, Jews, Hispanics, etc think of the topic of racial reparations?

Courtesy: Isaiah Martin's instagram

From the 51 national teams between North, South, Central America and the Caribbean, Argentina is the ONLY country that DOESN'T have black players.