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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry OP, nobody read the article. Are you the black nationalist poster? You know, long winded rambling responses about nonsense that you read in one of your extremist AA studies textbooks.

So, what if you are bi-racial? Do you pay, or get paid?[/quote]

And what if you're descendant of European immigrants who came AFTER slavery had been abolished?

They're exempt from any payment, correct?[/quote]

They chose to come to a racist country with policies that harmed black people.

You get the good AND the bad. 
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You chose to stay in this racist country.  You get the good AND the bad.[/quote]

Yes, my ancestors (Quakers & Union soldiers) have tried to lift up others for centuries. And I’m not going anywhere.

It’s time to lift up black people in a meaningful way - eliminate the wealth gap. 
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You get no credit for that and PP's judgment is based solely on his/her perception of your race.

- another person who's family fought for the Union[/quote]

Yup.

Let's stop racist thinking.

People are NOT their skin color.[/quote]

Skin color DOES matter in our society. Two Harvard-educated lawyers head home at 9pm from the gym - one black and one white. Which one gets stopped by cops on the street for “fitting the description”?

Systemic racism exists today. The harm from slavery & Jim Crow continues today.

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If whites were 12% of our country yet responsible for 50% of all violent crime, you bet it would be the white lawyer who would get stopped.

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Why are black people disproportionately arrested and convicted of more crimes? Systemic racism.

You just made the case for reparations. 
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Um, they are arrested and stopped more because they are DOING more crime.  Why is that hard to process?  You think think all the black men (and women) sitting in jail for murder just were minding their own business and they were stopped, arresting, went to trial and convicted of murder (or rape, armed robbery, etc.)  Look at crime stats.  I’ve posted them before but won’t bother because facts seem to make more difference.  But stats show black people commit more crime- by a lot- period.  So yes, of course they are going to be arrested and convicted more.  Go ahead and throw some money at that problem and see if it makes a difference.  It won’t.

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Several reasons why: 
- less wealth 
- less education 
- fewer opportunities 
- more patrolling & profiling 
- more rigorous prosecution & sentences 
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