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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How much do people think they should get in reparations?  How "black" does one need to be to get reparations?  If I have a great great grandparent that was black, does that mean I get reparations even if I have a Chinese grandparent and three seemingly white other grandparents?  Are we going to genetically test people?[/quote]

She addresses eligibility in her essay. 
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Perhaps you can share that information then because doing a find on “eligibility” turns up nothing.  Again, how much MONEY do you want?[/quote]

Perhaps you can read it. 
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It’s a freaking manifesto that’s way TLDR.[/quote]

It’s filled with great points and data that everyone should read. 
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But I think that reparations paid to people who are not the ones who were injured is morally and ethically wrong.  She doesn't convince me that it is the moral thing to do.

There are social and utilitarian reasons to help black Americans including by such efforts as affirmative action (which has varied over the decades) and preferential hiring as well as the programs for all Americans including public education, welfare, Medicaid and Medicare and Social Security, etc.  But targeted reparations to people who were harmed by slavery/the failure of Reconstruction/Jim Crow/redlining/racial discrimination is a mushy concept that is problematic for many reasons, practical (which can be overcome) and ethical.

I disagree with her premise.  [/quote]

Black people in the US today ARE harmed all of the various forms of white supremacy over the past 400 years - from slavery to Jim Crow to redlining to systemic racism.

Time to make amends. 
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You personally are not harmed by things that happened 400 years ago.  Systemic racism TODAY does harm you.  I think this is an important distinction that the premise of "reparations" obscures.    [/quote]

“Things” started 400 years ago and continue today. White supremacy has evolved over time but has always existed in various ways that harm black people. Even today.

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