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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reparations?  Impossible to implement.  Who would be responsible for paying?  Targeted, or across the board?  How would it ever be fair?

Most white Americans in those times never held any slaves, many white families came long after slavery was abolished, and whatever "benefit" they get in terms of where this nation is and what it provides is no different than whatever same "benefit" other whites, asians,, latinos, (and as previous in this thread, AAs like Barack Obama) get or are getting.. Does the Filipino family that moved to the US 15 years ago owe reparations?  How about the Bulgarian family that moved here 30 years ago?  Barack Obama- does he owe?  How about people who are of mixed white, african and other ancestry?[/quote]

ALL people have African ancestry, as far as we know.

US government could pay, just as they did to Japanese internment families and their heirs.

But I believe the post on reparations was about education, job creation, etc. There used to be government programs in place, but a lot of those have been rolled back because of backlash from whites. Apparently 400 years of oppression is only worth about 40 years of assistance -- "Black people, you only need 1/10 of the time you were oppressed to recover. Why aren't you done already?"

Let's try to be at least slightly realistic, folks. And for clarity's sake, the in-quotes comment is definitely sarcastic. [/quote]

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