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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm Irish and my family was discriminated for almost a century... wheres my money?[/quote]
Some SJW here will tell you that they benefitted from “white privilege.” I would just love for my Sicilian ancestors to come back from the dead and have some piss ant SJW tell them to their faces that they were privileged in any way. Now that would be entertainment! [/quote]

Racist trash like you have had enough privilege. Sit TF down.

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DP: you, you, YOU, are pure racist trash. Sit TF down.[/quote]

How exactly am I racist trash? 
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Your comments show the racist trash you are.[/quote]
DP here. Why?  Because Sicilian immigrants 100 years ago had such a great life?  [/quote]

My great grandfather came over from Italy in 1901 and was a manual laborer scraping by for the rest of his life. He had it rough too. But he traveled here of his own free will. And he was able to live with his family. His kids weren’t sold off like property. He didn’t lose his name, language, religion, or culture. His kids were able to go to school and get better jobs. Those kids moved around. None got lynched. There were no US policies limiting his options for housing & banking. So he had it tough, but it wasn’t really comparable.

That doesn’t change the fact that PP is racist and should sit TF down. 
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Right, but people who are not suffering those problems today are asking for compensation for it anyway because they are suffering different problems or maybe are suffering very little at all.

Which is how we got a man who is worth $600 million asking for $350,000 in "reparations." For what?  Because maybe if his father wasn't a sharecropper, he'd be worth $1 billion?  
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It’s not about any particular individual.

Black people were hurt and are still suffering today from the last 400 years of abuses from US policies.

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Then, how do you explain millionaires/billionaires like Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, and Bob Johnson, among many others?  [/quote]

Please just read books. Maybe start with any and then move onto the topic of systemic racism.  And then you can actually answer your own question.[/quote]

And if a book is too much, read the article linked in the OP: 
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/24/magazine/reparations-slavery.html

This also touches on your question:
https://socialequity.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/what-we-get-wrong.pdf

Read those and get back to us. 
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Sorry.  I won't read an article penned by a woman who believes that the destruction of businesses, many minority  owned, isn't violence.

The point is - opportunities  abound.  It is up to the individual to take advantage of them.  
Many  POC have done just that.  It means hard work, dedication, and perseverance.

Reparations will not help anyone develop those skills.  [/quote]

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