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Benefits Versus Responsibilities: The Nature of Imperialism and Conquest

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Part I:   Introduction The West's responsibility to the people who have been victimized by supremacy are tantamount also to it's benefits received by those who atypically bear no specific responsibility to the people who have been wronged .  What I would like to pay attention to, is the idea that people seem to focus on, the idea of a specific people being harmed versus the people who have benefited from those harms.  One's situation has to correlate with the aspect of life they have no control over by the time they are born.  The situation that one finds themselves is based on an inherited society and should be governed as such. The idea that we should govern society based on those who are exceptional is a very ludicrous idea and one of the most ludicrous ideas espoused by, not only certain conservative thinkers, but libertarians  and neoliberals as well.  The focus of this article will be based on the idea of reparations, the wealth disparities between classes of people

The Split Between Black Intellectuals

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Have you ever felt stuck between two friends that you respect, but one has a falling out with the other, this is the predicament in which I find myself. I am stuck between two clans that want to achieve social, political, and economic justice for the overarching black-community, but at the same time find themselves using two different approaches.  In this instance, I find myself staunchly in one camp, but at the same time, I don't want to ostracize everyone else that have good points, but doesn't follow the same approach that I abide by.  These two camps are Social-Democratic/Progressive camp and the Neoliberal/Moderate camp. The progressive camp contains figures such as Dr. Cornel West and Tavis Smiley, while the neoliberal camp contains such figures like Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Rev. Al-Sharpton.  There are other much more complicated figures such as Ibram X, Jesse Jackson, and Eddie Glaude, which we will not be covering in this article, but in fut