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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They also did it to Asians in the West.

See the Truckee Method and Japanese Internment.

We can keep going down this rabbit hole. Let's just cut a check to everyone for a million dollars at this rate.[/quote]
Japanese interned were compensated to some degree in the 1980s.[/quote]

Not for their land.

Let's all get reparations. Then we can all pay off native Americans who got their lands stolen and were oppressed more than any other group. [/quote]
true, but the AA family didn't get cash, either.

What's the big deal that LA did this for one family. Did they ask you to give up your land to do this?

I used to live around that area, and that property is seriously some property.

I read about how families build wealth through generations, like Mitch McConnell's family, who used to own slaves and a plantation. They became prosperous and sent their descendants went to ivy leagues schools which builds more wealth.  So, although MM didn't own slaves, he is a recipient of the privilege life afforded him on the backs of slaves.

Think about all the AA families who lost their livelihoods in the Tulsa massacre.  How different their descendant's lives could have been if a bunch of racist people backed by the cops hadn't destroyed their lives.[/quote]

It's an interesting theory. Let's measure it against white Tulsans/Oklahomans. How many are swimming in wealth? Not that many. I imagine the upcoming Great Depression/Dust Bowl would have wiped out most of any prosperity, as happened to many Oklahomans.

I know in my own family tree there are people who have gone on to greater prosperity while others have gone down in the world, despite sharing common ancestors and ostensibly the same access to resources. The idea that you'd be sitting pretty a millionaire "if only" is very difficult to prove given few people of any race are millionaires. Most people plod on in various degrees of middle class status, and this does include the majority of present day African Americans. They may not be rich, but they may not be poor either.

This is the biggest problem with the argument that past discrimination caused every problem and poverty today.  There is an unrealistic assumption that, if someone somewhere in history, had some money, it would still be there today.  In reality, wealth is regularly lost (or, in some cases, gained) over time, and some people in a family never inherit anything in the first place.  Basically, this argument looks at only the successful stories and then claims (without any basis in reality) that those stories are the general rule.  It is simplistic thinking.
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