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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]

Currently, there is "residual harm" from all of the various forms of oppression that have happened over the last 400 years.

slavery - loss of language, religion, family, history, culture 
Jim Crow - segregation, monuments to celebrate white supremacy 
redlining - further segregation

Segregation has led to decreased wealth, health, education, opportunity, etc. -- measurable harm in almost all aspects of life.

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The point is that this is on fact a new type of reparation qualitatively and quantitatively very different from the examples provided.[/quote]

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