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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So how would it work? Cash payments? Who qualifies.

This is all nice in concept, but it's almost certainly unconstitutional for the government to give cash payments to only one racial group, or even establish social programs for only black people. [/quote]
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 wasn't unconstitutional and that gave reparations to a specific ethnicity.[/quote]
No, it gave reparations to individuals who were interred because of their ethnicity.  [/quote]

Right. SCOTUS ruled that the USG can give reparations to a specific group for a discrete act by the government. So in this case you could maybe justify payments to descendents of slaves, but inasmuch as "systemic racism" isn't one discrete act by the government, reparations payments or targeted programs open to all Black Americans but no one else would almost certainly be unconstitutional, as it would discriminate based on race, and thereby violate the Civil Rights Act and probably the equal protection clause. [/quote]
Why is systemic racism not a "discrete act"?[/quote]

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