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How about the descendants of people who did not own land?  Indentured servants?  Many were disenfranchised.

You cannot make up for past injustices.  You just can't.  The past is gone.  It was wrong and those people suffered and they are dead and gone now.  You can only do what is right and move forward.

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At this point there are also many African-Americans who came here or whose families came here in recent decades, long after slavery and in many cases even after Jim Crow.  They may be black, but what "reparations" are they entitled to?  The same as any other African-American?  Why?  There are also African-Americans descended from slave holders.  Not all slave owners were white, and not all whites were slave owners.  And what about whites who came here long after slavery and Jim Crow ended?  Why should they be punished for something that they did not take part in, and which they didn't benefit from?

"Reparations" simply cannot be implemented in any fair or reasonable way at this point.  There are simply too many complexities that nobody wants to address in any meaningful way.  The only proposals out there have been far too simplistic and completely fail to take fairness into account.[/quote]

Fairness?
Lol - that's funny.[/quote] Fairness?  What is "fair" about holding people responsible for things they never did simply because of the color of their skin?[/quote]

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