Why doesn't Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama support reparations?

[gobears10]

Extremely disappointing.

[BlueMTexpat]

1. Nice try for a flame

one way or another.

[Fumesucker]

2. Establishment candidates don't have to answer those sorts of questions

What I'm wondering is if Obama would be eligible for reparations?

Perhaps that's why he's reluctant to discuss it, it would appear self serving.

[CBGLuthier]

3. Of course he wouldn't be eligible. His children would be though.

His ancestors weren't slaves in America.

[Fumesucker]

4. Have you read Coates much?

His argument as I understand it goes much further than just slavery, to Jim Crow and beyond to Red Lining housing in the modern era, employment discrimination and so on...

I think it would blow the black community apart squabbling over who gets what if it involves any largish individual sums, I've seen that happen in plenty of families including sadly my own.

[CBGLuthier]

5. No haven't read it because I think reparations will never happen in America.

Should have happened 150 years ago. White America would go insane if reparations were ever paid and white politicians know it.

I once worked at a job with two crews. One all local Texans and one all African students. One day because the boss was late getting into town the African shift, which was the later one got paid while the first shift had to wait until the next day. i learned a lot about how ugly white Americans can be on that day. I will not repeat the words they used to express their dissatisfaction with the situation.

[Android3.14]

6. Why don't you peddle that snake oil somewhere else?

[Renew Deal]

7. Are you black?

[baldguy]

8. Sanders is perfectly happy to propose all kinds of unattainable, pie-in-the sky programs

But not for reparations - which Ta-Nehisi Coates explained in his original piece.

You did read Ta-Nehisi Coates' original piece, didn't you?

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Unattainable, pie-in-the-sky like the creation of a pro western democracy in Iraq using bombs as a

calling card? Hillary voted for that waste of trillions. What did we get in return? Were those WMD not unattainable pie-in-the sky? Yeah, I think that they were.