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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems as if anyone who  does not support reparations is racist around here.

I don't support reparations. 
I guess I am racist.  
I guess Barack Obama is racist too.  [/quote]

Oh honey. Did your feelings get hurt? I’m so sorry. But no one called you a racist for not supporting reparations - they called you a racist for the REASONS why you don’t support it. Need a tissue? 
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I don't support reparations because [b]I don't believe anyone is entitled to personal cash payment for anything that happened to any group in any previous generation[/b], no matter how horrible.  I do believe that poor people should be given assistance to earn money, buy homes, build businesses etc. I also believe that systemic racism is a problem and that all forms of systemic racism should be dismantled today but I don't consider this a reparation because it doesn't make up for anything that happened in a previous generation.

I called myself a racist for taking this position.  Do you I think I am?  [/quote]

How about the residual harm that black people experience today? 
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Residual is a subset of current.  And gets no privileges over any harm that is not considered "residual."[/quote]

Open up the ATM for every group that’s been disenfranchised as some point in this nation’s history?   Probably not going to happen.   There must’ve a better way.  [/quote]
Well my point is that I am okay to open the ATM to give poor people better jobs no matter what group they are in or whether their grandparents were disenfranchised or not.[/quote]

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