The Maryland Reparations Commission has been enacted into law

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice try. Why should first and second generation immigrants pay for something we had nothing to do with (including Jim Crow era)?

No one is asking you personally to pay FFS. The government did an injustice and the government will pay.

And where does government get its money?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about Native Americans?

Get your own bill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice try. Why should first and second generation immigrants pay for something we had nothing to do with (including Jim Crow era)?

No one is asking you personally to pay FFS. The government did an injustice and the government will pay.

And where does government get its money?[/quote
It sells girl scout cookies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice try. Why should first and second generation immigrants pay for something we had nothing to do with (including Jim Crow era)?

No one is asking you personally to pay FFS. The government did an injustice and the government will pay.

And where does government get its money?

Do you say the same when the government pays a settlement for wrongfully convicting someone or wrongful death?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice try. Why should first and second generation immigrants pay for something we had nothing to do with (including Jim Crow era)?

No one is asking you personally to pay FFS. The government did an injustice and the government will pay.

This is so typical mindset of “give me, you owe me” folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Maryland Reparations Commission has been enacted into law. Let’s clarify what the Civil Rights movement and the the 1968 Civil Rights Act aimed for:

- it was a promise to future generations that our government would never again prioritize one race over another.

This bill (now a Maryland law) undermines the unifying purpose of the Civil Rights movement.

It's hard to be "unified" when a major group in the US is still feeling the lingering effects of systemic racism.

If you don't want to prioritize one race over another, then everyone should dump ALL of their wealth together and then split it evenly across everyone in the US. We can start over so that white people aren't continued to be prioritized over everyone else - we all start off equal.

Yes whatever would we do without lingering effects of systemic racism. We’d have no victims then.

We'd also lose the rationale advanced for lack of accomplishment by people who didn't bother to obtain an education, have little ambition, and make little effort to improve their onw situations, preferring instead that the government take money from those who are productive to redistribute it to those who can't be bothered.

Thanks for demonstrating why we still desperately need DEI in this country.

Ignorant racist fvk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice try. Why should first and second generation immigrants pay for something we had nothing to do with (including Jim Crow era)?

No one is asking you personally to pay FFS. The government did an injustice and the government will pay.

This is so typical mindset of “give me, you owe me” folks.

This is the typical mindset of MAGA trash who would be thrilled if Trump used the n-word.

[Anonymous]

Money will go to descendants of MD enslaved people? Any enslaved people? What kind of proof would be required?

[Anonymous]

It is only a study

It will cost $60K/year for 3 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is only a study

It will cost $60K/year for 3 years.

It won't. It will mysteriously need additional funding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice try. Why should first and second generation immigrants pay for something we had nothing to do with (including Jim Crow era)?

No one is asking you personally to pay FFS. The government did an injustice and the government will pay.

This is so typical mindset of “give me, you owe me” folks.

That doesn’t make any sense. The government stole that money from slaves. The freeloaders were the government, not the people asking to be repaid. If you equate the government with citizens then the citizens received unearned benefits from that money and so then they owe the people who were exploited through those actions. Do you not believe in basic justice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is only a study

It will cost $60K/year for 3 years.

It won't. It will mysteriously need additional funding.

Maybe

Do you often catastrophize over maybes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is only a study

It will cost $60K/year for 3 years.

It won't. It will mysteriously need additional funding.

Maybe

Do you often catastrophize over maybes

Only when it comes to things that may benefit black people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice try. Why should first and second generation immigrants pay for something we had nothing to do with (including Jim Crow era)?

No one is asking you personally to pay FFS. The government did an injustice and the government will pay.

This is so typical mindset of “give me, you owe me” folks.

That doesn’t make any sense. The government stole that money from slaves. The freeloaders were the government, not the people asking to be repaid. If you equate the government with citizens then the citizens received unearned benefits from that money and so then they owe the people who were exploited through those actions. Do you not believe in basic justice?

Exactly. And those unearned benefits persist today and white/white adjacent people continue to enjoy them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Maryland Reparations Commission has been enacted into law. Let’s clarify what the Civil Rights movement and the the 1968 Civil Rights Act aimed for:

- it was a promise to future generations that our government would never again prioritize one race over another.

This bill (now a Maryland law) undermines the unifying purpose of the Civil Rights movement.

It's hard to be "unified" when a major group in the US is still feeling the lingering effects of systemic racism.

If you don't want to prioritize one race over another, then everyone should dump ALL of their wealth together and then split it evenly across everyone in the US. We can start over so that white people aren't continued to be prioritized over everyone else - we all start off equal.

You do realize the wealthiest racial group in the US isn't white, don't you?