The Maryland Reparations Commission has been enacted into law

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Anonymous wrote:Life is much better when you take ownership of your decisions, rather than viewing yourself as a victim whose poor decisions are someone else's fault.

I've made some good decisions in my life, and some bad ones, and I try to own those decisions and learn from them. I inherited nothing and have had a 40+ hour/week job every day of my adult life.

I think most Americans are like me, including most Black Americans, and are repulsed by the idea that someone would need to give them money to make up for their own failures in life.

Great. Americans should take some accountability for their decisions, including the extremely destructive racist policies in recent history that harmed people living today.

It is truly repulsive that some people are trying to pretend like these weren’t massive failures.

Own those failures, Americans.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Life is much better when you take ownership of your decisions, rather than viewing yourself as a victim whose poor decisions are someone else's fault.

I've made some good decisions in my life, and some bad ones, and I try to own those decisions and learn from them. I inherited nothing and have had a 40+ hour/week job every day of my adult life.

I think most Americans are like me, including most Black Americans, and are repulsed by the idea that someone would need to give them money to make up for their own failures in life.

Great. Americans should take some accountability for their decisions, including the extremely destructive racist policies in recent history that harmed people living today.

It is truly repulsive that some people are trying to pretend like these weren’t massive failures.

Own those failures, Americans.

I think that PP was talking about individual accountability but I am sure you know nothing about that.

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Anonymous wrote:As I understand it, the goal of the Commission is to explore options. That’s it.
So many people here are responding as though individuals are going to be handed fistfuls of money. There’s relatively little discussion of community remedies and interventions for harms that were done to communities — something that I’m guessing might be more realistic IF — big IF here — any financial remedies are actually proposed at any point.

Some people argue that current citizens are possibly going to be punished for harms that they in no way caused themselves.
Personally, my view of reparations is one that examines options, and looks to remedies that attempt to ameliorate the historic harms. For decades, Black people paid taxes that supported amenities that they and their children were unable to use — from schools and educational institutions to swimming pools, to communities with restricted covenants. Perhaps community investment might be a fair intervention, at least as a start.

Well said. It’s very telling that people jump to conclusions like ”fistfuls of cash”.

It's not "very telling", it's merely discerning. Dressing up a cash grab as some kind of moral imperative, with zero actual logical reasoning, is nothi8ng more than opportunism by people who are undeserving. Those who might have once deserved compensation for harm are long-departed. Water under the bridge, not wrongs which can reasonably be redressed today. Anyone hoping for present-day "reparations" for harms done to others long ago would merely be beneficiaries of a windfall paid for by people who have no responsibility themselves for the actions complained of.

The whole concept of "reparations" in this context is an absurdity.

It's hilarious that you think slavery and its impacts are all water under the bridge. That tells me you have no idea what you are talking about.

Also: How come this only applies to Black people and slavery, but when other groups demand and get reparations for their economic harm, that's ok?

No one was enslaved by the Maryland or Federal government. The slaves deserve reparations argument is a distraction at least and misrepresentation at the worst.

The reparations con is simply intellectually dishonest. No living person can demonstrate any nexus between their present situation and government policies of past centuries. The argument is a logical fallacy, dependent upon irrelevant premises to reach a desired conclusion, i.e.,

1. Some people today are poor.
2. Some other people were enslaved in the past
3. Ergo, poor people today are poor because some other people were enslaved in the past.

The proponents of this scam need to take Logic 101.

Some Black families can demonstrate seizures of their property by a government entity under eminent domain. Those people are already entitled to reparations if they can prove their case.

Claiming "I was systematically and negatively impacted by government policy" would set a precedent that would open the flood gates for every fringe group.

Henrietta lacks family proved it and the poor billionaires had to pay them a few measly millions.

Does this decision mean all Blacks deserve reparations because of one specific transgression?

"One specific transgresson"?

That's how you would describe slavery that happened to an entire population of people who were kidnapped, brought here against their will, physically, emotionally and sexually abused and entered into forced labor with no compensation? That whole sytem that endured for over 200 hundred years?

That is not a "specific transgression."

Stay on topic. You brought up the Lacks case. It was resolved. It has no bearing on slavery prior to 1865.

Again, neither the federal government nor Maryland government held slaves. There's no legal reason for those governments to pay reparations to descendants of enslaved peoples. Reparations, if any, are owed by the private citizens and institutions that enslaved people. I believe most public institutions that held slaves have already made reparations.

OK, how about the William Dove case?

Don't poison your wife?

No the Maryland William Dove not the England William Dove

The Dove family has a legitimate case. This doesn't mean every Black person in Maryland can piggyback on this claim.

So if there are “legitimate” claims they should be addressed?

The court decided the legitimacy of the claim. If someone has standing to bring a case, they should do so. That's why we have the judicial system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Life is much better when you take ownership of your decisions, rather than viewing yourself as a victim whose poor decisions are someone else's fault.

I've made some good decisions in my life, and some bad ones, and I try to own those decisions and learn from them. I inherited nothing and have had a 40+ hour/week job every day of my adult life.

I think most Americans are like me, including most Black Americans, and are repulsed by the idea that someone would need to give them money to make up for their own failures in life.

If you were directly harmed, yes you deserve compensation but there is robably no one alive who was a slave at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:As I understand it, the goal of the Commission is to explore options. That’s it.
So many people here are responding as though individuals are going to be handed fistfuls of money. There’s relatively little discussion of community remedies and interventions for harms that were done to communities — something that I’m guessing might be more realistic IF — big IF here — any financial remedies are actually proposed at any point.

Some people argue that current citizens are possibly going to be punished for harms that they in no way caused themselves.
Personally, my view of reparations is one that examines options, and looks to remedies that attempt to ameliorate the historic harms. For decades, Black people paid taxes that supported amenities that they and their children were unable to use — from schools and educational institutions to swimming pools, to communities with restricted covenants. Perhaps community investment might be a fair intervention, at least as a start.

Well said. It’s very telling that people jump to conclusions like ”fistfuls of cash”.

It's not "very telling", it's merely discerning. Dressing up a cash grab as some kind of moral imperative, with zero actual logical reasoning, is nothi8ng more than opportunism by people who are undeserving. Those who might have once deserved compensation for harm are long-departed. Water under the bridge, not wrongs which can reasonably be redressed today. Anyone hoping for present-day "reparations" for harms done to others long ago would merely be beneficiaries of a windfall paid for by people who have no responsibility themselves for the actions complained of.

The whole concept of "reparations" in this context is an absurdity.

It's hilarious that you think slavery and its impacts are all water under the bridge. That tells me you have no idea what you are talking about.

Also: How come this only applies to Black people and slavery, but when other groups demand and get reparations for their economic harm, that's ok?

No one was enslaved by the Maryland or Federal government. The slaves deserve reparations argument is a distraction at least and misrepresentation at the worst.

The reparations con is simply intellectually dishonest. No living person can demonstrate any nexus between their present situation and government policies of past centuries. The argument is a logical fallacy, dependent upon irrelevant premises to reach a desired conclusion, i.e.,

1. Some people today are poor.
2. Some other people were enslaved in the past
3. Ergo, poor people today are poor because some other people were enslaved in the past.

The proponents of this scam need to take Logic 101.

Some Black families can demonstrate seizures of their property by a government entity under eminent domain. Those people are already entitled to reparations if they can prove their case.

Claiming "I was systematically and negatively impacted by government policy" would set a precedent that would open the flood gates for every fringe group.

Henrietta lacks family proved it and the poor billionaires had to pay them a few measly millions.

Does this decision mean all Blacks deserve reparations because of one specific transgression?

"One specific transgresson"?

That's how you would describe slavery that happened to an entire population of people who were kidnapped, brought here against their will, physically, emotionally and sexually abused and entered into forced labor with no compensation? That whole sytem that endured for over 200 hundred years?

That is not a "specific transgression."

Stay on topic. You brought up the Lacks case. It was resolved. It has no bearing on slavery prior to 1865.

Again, neither the federal government nor Maryland government held slaves. There's no legal reason for those governments to pay reparations to descendants of enslaved peoples. Reparations, if any, are owed by the private citizens and institutions that enslaved people. I believe most public institutions that held slaves have already made reparations.

OK, how about the William Dove case?

Don't poison your wife?

No the Maryland William Dove not the England William Dove

The Dove family has a legitimate case. This doesn't mean every Black person in Maryland can piggyback on this claim.

The goal of the commission is to find specific examples not a class action.

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Anonymous wrote:As I understand it, the goal of the Commission is to explore options. That’s it.
So many people here are responding as though individuals are going to be handed fistfuls of money. There’s relatively little discussion of community remedies and interventions for harms that were done to communities — something that I’m guessing might be more realistic IF — big IF here — any financial remedies are actually proposed at any point.

Some people argue that current citizens are possibly going to be punished for harms that they in no way caused themselves.
Personally, my view of reparations is one that examines options, and looks to remedies that attempt to ameliorate the historic harms. For decades, Black people paid taxes that supported amenities that they and their children were unable to use — from schools and educational institutions to swimming pools, to communities with restricted covenants. Perhaps community investment might be a fair intervention, at least as a start.

Well said. It’s very telling that people jump to conclusions like ”fistfuls of cash”.

It's not "very telling", it's merely discerning. Dressing up a cash grab as some kind of moral imperative, with zero actual logical reasoning, is nothi8ng more than opportunism by people who are undeserving. Those who might have once deserved compensation for harm are long-departed. Water under the bridge, not wrongs which can reasonably be redressed today. Anyone hoping for present-day "reparations" for harms done to others long ago would merely be beneficiaries of a windfall paid for by people who have no responsibility themselves for the actions complained of.

The whole concept of "reparations" in this context is an absurdity.

It's hilarious that you think slavery and its impacts are all water under the bridge. That tells me you have no idea what you are talking about.

Also: How come this only applies to Black people and slavery, but when other groups demand and get reparations for their economic harm, that's ok?

No one was enslaved by the Maryland or Federal government. The slaves deserve reparations argument is a distraction at least and misrepresentation at the worst.

The reparations con is simply intellectually dishonest. No living person can demonstrate any nexus between their present situation and government policies of past centuries. The argument is a logical fallacy, dependent upon irrelevant premises to reach a desired conclusion, i.e.,

1. Some people today are poor.
2. Some other people were enslaved in the past
3. Ergo, poor people today are poor because some other people were enslaved in the past.

The proponents of this scam need to take Logic 101.

Please start off your logic recognizing that the harms didn't end when slavery ended. There was another century's worth of government actions meant to sideline Black Americans. At best. And to deliberately impoverish them at worst.

Bring on the facts which lead inexorably and convincingly to anyone alive today having been harmed in some measurable and quantifiable manner by centuries-old government actions which may or may not have affected any particular long-dead people.

Centuries old?

Jim Crow
Redlining
Discrimination in education, employment, justice

Where is the "justice" is taxing people who did nothing wrong to compensate people who had no wrongs done to them, but whose ancestors may, or may not, have been wronged by other people in some other era? Quite a stretch, and frankly morally and ethically unsupportable. It's peculiar how only a specific racial group here in the U.S., believes they should be compensated for such distance and debatable harms done to unknown others a long time ago. Why are they more entitled than any other people whose ancestors lost out to people in past centuries who were stronger, more socially advantaged,better educated, wealthier, of a different ethnic or racial group?

Anyone with this line of thinking should be taxed extra for being a vile POS.

You are exactly why we need DEI and reparations.

Gimme my free money!!!!

You were given free money now you just need to give it back.

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Anonymous wrote:As I understand it, the goal of the Commission is to explore options. That’s it.
So many people here are responding as though individuals are going to be handed fistfuls of money. There’s relatively little discussion of community remedies and interventions for harms that were done to communities — something that I’m guessing might be more realistic IF — big IF here — any financial remedies are actually proposed at any point.

Some people argue that current citizens are possibly going to be punished for harms that they in no way caused themselves.
Personally, my view of reparations is one that examines options, and looks to remedies that attempt to ameliorate the historic harms. For decades, Black people paid taxes that supported amenities that they and their children were unable to use — from schools and educational institutions to swimming pools, to communities with restricted covenants. Perhaps community investment might be a fair intervention, at least as a start.

Well said. It’s very telling that people jump to conclusions like ”fistfuls of cash”.

It's not "very telling", it's merely discerning. Dressing up a cash grab as some kind of moral imperative, with zero actual logical reasoning, is nothi8ng more than opportunism by people who are undeserving. Those who might have once deserved compensation for harm are long-departed. Water under the bridge, not wrongs which can reasonably be redressed today. Anyone hoping for present-day "reparations" for harms done to others long ago would merely be beneficiaries of a windfall paid for by people who have no responsibility themselves for the actions complained of.

The whole concept of "reparations" in this context is an absurdity.

It's hilarious that you think slavery and its impacts are all water under the bridge. That tells me you have no idea what you are talking about.

Also: How come this only applies to Black people and slavery, but when other groups demand and get reparations for their economic harm, that's ok?

No one was enslaved by the Maryland or Federal government. The slaves deserve reparations argument is a distraction at least and misrepresentation at the worst.

The reparations con is simply intellectually dishonest. No living person can demonstrate any nexus between their present situation and government policies of past centuries. The argument is a logical fallacy, dependent upon irrelevant premises to reach a desired conclusion, i.e.,

1. Some people today are poor.
2. Some other people were enslaved in the past
3. Ergo, poor people today are poor because some other people were enslaved in the past.

The proponents of this scam need to take Logic 101.

Some Black families can demonstrate seizures of their property by a government entity under eminent domain. Those people are already entitled to reparations if they can prove their case.

Claiming "I was systematically and negatively impacted by government policy" would set a precedent that would open the flood gates for every fringe group.

Henrietta lacks family proved it and the poor billionaires had to pay them a few measly millions.

Does this decision mean all Blacks deserve reparations because of one specific transgression?

"One specific transgresson"?

That's how you would describe slavery that happened to an entire population of people who were kidnapped, brought here against their will, physically, emotionally and sexually abused and entered into forced labor with no compensation? That whole sytem that endured for over 200 hundred years?

That is not a "specific transgression."

Stay on topic. You brought up the Lacks case. It was resolved. It has no bearing on slavery prior to 1865.

Again, neither the federal government nor Maryland government held slaves. There's no legal reason for those governments to pay reparations to descendants of enslaved peoples. Reparations, if any, are owed by the private citizens and institutions that enslaved people. I believe most public institutions that held slaves have already made reparations.

OK, how about the William Dove case?

Don't poison your wife?

No the Maryland William Dove not the England William Dove

The Dove family has a legitimate case. This doesn't mean every Black person in Maryland can piggyback on this claim.

The goal of the commission is to find specific examples not a class action.

No, that's not the case according to the Bill's content:

Examine federal, state, and local policies from the post-Reconstruction era through the Jim Crow period that contributed to racial disparities.[youtube]

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Life is much better when you take ownership of your decisions, rather than viewing yourself as a victim whose poor decisions are someone else's fault.

I've made some good decisions in my life, and some bad ones, and I try to own those decisions and learn from them. I inherited nothing and have had a 40+ hour/week job every day of my adult life.

I think most Americans are like me, including most Black Americans, and are repulsed by the idea that someone would need to give them money to make up for their own failures in life.

Great. Americans should take some accountability for their decisions, including the extremely destructive racist policies in recent history that harmed people living today.

It is truly repulsive that some people are trying to pretend like these weren’t massive failures.

Own those failures, Americans.

I think that PP was talking about individual accountability but I am sure you know nothing about that.

Exactly. There is instead likely plenty of evidence that any given claimant's present day status is directly traceable to choices and decisions they made themselves, not to the actions of anyone else. Disavowing responsibility for one's choices and casting blame on ancient history is both reprehensible and futile.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Life is much better when you take ownership of your decisions, rather than viewing yourself as a victim whose poor decisions are someone else's fault.

I've made some good decisions in my life, and some bad ones, and I try to own those decisions and learn from them. I inherited nothing and have had a 40+ hour/week job every day of my adult life.

I think most Americans are like me, including most Black Americans, and are repulsed by the idea that someone would need to give them money to make up for their own failures in life.

Great. Americans should take some accountability for their decisions, including the extremely destructive racist policies in recent history that harmed people living today.

It is truly repulsive that some people are trying to pretend like these weren’t massive failures.

Own those failures, Americans.

Should those be weighed against the victims own poor decision making? When we factor that accountability in seems like they would cancel each other out. Vs holding people accountable for decisions made by other people decades or centuries ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Life is much better when you take ownership of your decisions, rather than viewing yourself as a victim whose poor decisions are someone else's fault.

I've made some good decisions in my life, and some bad ones, and I try to own those decisions and learn from them. I inherited nothing and have had a 40+ hour/week job every day of my adult life.

I think most Americans are like me, including most Black Americans, and are repulsed by the idea that someone would need to give them money to make up for their own failures in life.

Great. Americans should take some accountability for their decisions, including the extremely destructive racist policies in recent history that harmed people living today.

It is truly repulsive that some people are trying to pretend like these weren’t massive failures.

Own those failures, Americans.

I think that PP was talking about individual accountability but I am sure you know nothing about that.

Exactly. There is instead likely plenty of evidence that any given claimant's present day status is directly traceable to choices and decisions they made themselves, not to the actions of anyone else. Disavowing responsibility for one's choices and casting blame on ancient history is both reprehensible and futile.

Exactly! Black Americans today are far less likely than white Americans to have generational wealth (of any amount) due to their extremely poor historical choices of what jobs to take, which neighborhoods to purchase homes in, where to send their children to school… oh wait, maybe those weren’t actually choices due to the extremely racist policies in place?

Moron.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Life is much better when you take ownership of your decisions, rather than viewing yourself as a victim whose poor decisions are someone else's fault.

I've made some good decisions in my life, and some bad ones, and I try to own those decisions and learn from them. I inherited nothing and have had a 40+ hour/week job every day of my adult life.

I think most Americans are like me, including most Black Americans, and are repulsed by the idea that someone would need to give them money to make up for their own failures in life.

Great. Americans should take some accountability for their decisions, including the extremely destructive racist policies in recent history that harmed people living today.

It is truly repulsive that some people are trying to pretend like these weren’t massive failures.

Own those failures, Americans.

I think that PP was talking about individual accountability but I am sure you know nothing about that.

Exactly. There is instead likely plenty of evidence that any given claimant's present day status is directly traceable to choices and decisions they made themselves, not to the actions of anyone else. Disavowing responsibility for one's choices and casting blame on ancient history is both reprehensible and futile.

Exactly! Black Americans today are far less likely than white Americans to have generational wealth (of any amount) due to their extremely poor historical choices of what jobs to take, which neighborhoods to purchase homes in, where to send their children to school… oh wait, maybe those weren’t actually choices due to the extremely racist policies in place?

Moron.

So "generational wealth" is the only thing present-day people can claim they're missing out on due to historical racism which didn't affect them directly? Studies show that around 30% of White households receive an inheritance, with a median amount received of $101K. Where are the reparations for the other 70%?

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Anonymous wrote:Life is much better when you take ownership of your decisions, rather than viewing yourself as a victim whose poor decisions are someone else's fault.

I've made some good decisions in my life, and some bad ones, and I try to own those decisions and learn from them. I inherited nothing and have had a 40+ hour/week job every day of my adult life.

I think most Americans are like me, including most Black Americans, and are repulsed by the idea that someone would need to give them money to make up for their own failures in life.

Great. Americans should take some accountability for their decisions, including the extremely destructive racist policies in recent history that harmed people living today.

It is truly repulsive that some people are trying to pretend like these weren’t massive failures.

Own those failures, Americans.

I think that PP was talking about individual accountability but I am sure you know nothing about that.

Exactly. There is instead likely plenty of evidence that any given claimant's present day status is directly traceable to choices and decisions they made themselves, not to the actions of anyone else. Disavowing responsibility for one's choices and casting blame on ancient history is both reprehensible and futile.

Exactly! Black Americans today are far less likely than white Americans to have generational wealth (of any amount) due to their extremely poor historical choices of what jobs to take, which neighborhoods to purchase homes in, where to send their children to school… oh wait, maybe those weren’t actually choices due to the extremely racist policies in place?

Moron.

People come to this country because anyone can be successful if you work hard. This never-ending blaming game is nauseating. Are you not shamed?

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Anonymous wrote:Life is much better when you take ownership of your decisions, rather than viewing yourself as a victim whose poor decisions are someone else's fault.

I've made some good decisions in my life, and some bad ones, and I try to own those decisions and learn from them. I inherited nothing and have had a 40+ hour/week job every day of my adult life.

I think most Americans are like me, including most Black Americans, and are repulsed by the idea that someone would need to give them money to make up for their own failures in life.

Great. Americans should take some accountability for their decisions, including the extremely destructive racist policies in recent history that harmed people living today.

It is truly repulsive that some people are trying to pretend like these weren’t massive failures.

Own those failures, Americans.

I think that PP was talking about individual accountability but I am sure you know nothing about that.

Exactly. There is instead likely plenty of evidence that any given claimant's present day status is directly traceable to choices and decisions they made themselves, not to the actions of anyone else. Disavowing responsibility for one's choices and casting blame on ancient history is both reprehensible and futile.

Exactly! Black Americans today are far less likely than white Americans to have generational wealth (of any amount) due to their extremely poor historical choices of what jobs to take, which neighborhoods to purchase homes in, where to send their children to school… oh wait, maybe those weren’t actually choices due to the extremely racist policies in place?

Moron.

Yet in one generation Asians have acquired more wealth than even white people. How is that possible?

Try personal responsibility.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Life is much better when you take ownership of your decisions, rather than viewing yourself as a victim whose poor decisions are someone else's fault.

I've made some good decisions in my life, and some bad ones, and I try to own those decisions and learn from them. I inherited nothing and have had a 40+ hour/week job every day of my adult life.

I think most Americans are like me, including most Black Americans, and are repulsed by the idea that someone would need to give them money to make up for their own failures in life.

If you were directly harmed, yes you deserve compensation but there is robably no one alive who was a slave at this point.

Why are you focused on slavery?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Life is much better when you take ownership of your decisions, rather than viewing yourself as a victim whose poor decisions are someone else's fault.

I've made some good decisions in my life, and some bad ones, and I try to own those decisions and learn from them. I inherited nothing and have had a 40+ hour/week job every day of my adult life.

I think most Americans are like me, including most Black Americans, and are repulsed by the idea that someone would need to give them money to make up for their own failures in life.

Great. Americans should take some accountability for their decisions, including the extremely destructive racist policies in recent history that harmed people living today.

It is truly repulsive that some people are trying to pretend like these weren’t massive failures.

Own those failures, Americans.

I think that PP was talking about individual accountability but I am sure you know nothing about that.

Exactly. There is instead likely plenty of evidence that any given claimant's present day status is directly traceable to choices and decisions they made themselves, not to the actions of anyone else. Disavowing responsibility for one's choices and casting blame on ancient history is both reprehensible and futile.

Then you would have nothing to worry about.

But, the reason why you’re so butthurt about this study is that we all know that racist government policies HAVE hurt people living today.