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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about Native Americans??!![/quote]

I'm personally all for it.  We've paid reparations before, to the Japanese, to Aleuts of Alaska, Rosewood victims, Tuskegee victims, NC Eugenics victims, etc.  This is not new.[/quote]

In all those cases, they were payments to direct victims for specific actions.  In some cases it was their heirs.  This is the first time that an entire race has asked for payment for indirect victims of general actions going back 400 years.  This is very new.

It's also the first time that reparation demands ranged well into the trillions.  One estimate is for $100 trillion, which equals the total household wealth in the United States.  Yes there are people who propose to bankrupt the entire United States in order to line their own pockets.  And you wonder why the proposed homeless paupers find the request to be, umm, novel?  [/quote]

Lower home values are in redlined areas create current victims. 
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That's not a direct victim of a specific action.  The Tuskeegee victims were deliberately infected with a serious disease.  That's very specific.

Your home value is the consequence of many different factors that vary greatly.  If you personally could not get a loan in the 1970s, you are a direct victim.  All others are indirect victims.

These are not small distinctions.  Gigantic lawsuits are won or lose on these distinctions.

And in response to "lower home values" there are people who claim they are "owed" every home and bank account in the United States.  Can you at least disavow the more extreme proposals?[/quote]

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