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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]

Seriously?  Even if you don't believe in reparations, this comment is absurd.  Black people were not just "disenfranchised".  They worked for free from 1619 to 1865 where there were beat and starved, then from 1865 to 1890, lived under the black codes which were essentially slavery by a different name, then from 1890 to 1960s, Jim Crow, which prevented them from accumulating wealth and voting in many parts of the country and then redlining up until the 1970s.  Oh, by the way, unable to get benefits within the New Deal or the GI Bill even though we fault.  I won't even talk about the lynchings over 350 years.  [/quote]

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