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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about Asian people?  Do I owe?  What if my cousin, who is half black, half white?  Does he get 50% off?   What about white people who have ancestors who paid with their lives in the Union Army to end slavery?  That seems like a large payment. [/quote]

What if I'm white and recently immigrated?  Do I owe?  What if your family immigrated after slavery ended?  What if you were oppressed in the country where you were born?  What if?  What if?  I can't see a cash transfer proposal gaining traction when all is said and done.  But there are probably other changes that would.[/quote]

Recent immigrants, and those whose families came to the US after the Civil War, cannot opt out.

People in those categories benefited from undeserved privilege and racist societal structures regardless of when their families came to this country.[/quote]

Black people benefit from affirmative action, which is a racist policy. They also benefit from the the racist college admissions process so you will have to subtract that from the amount we owe you.  For Asians, make that X 2. [/quote]

Affirmative action is NOT a racist policy.

It is an ongoing effort to counteract the privilege and racism baked into societal structures, and has absolutely nothing to do with the coming reparations.[/quote]

"Coming reparations."  Ha ha ha ha ha ha. 
Dream on.  [/quote]

Sorry Trumpy Bear. Your guy is going to lose big in a few months, and the door will open for major progressive changes in this country once Biden takes over.

The time has come for reparations, and it is one of the things that WILL happen under the new administration[/quote]

Then and Asian vote is gone.  [/quote]

Regardless of the merits, reparations is political suicide for African Americans.  Few will support a program that benefits only 12% of Americans.   And even if such a program passed, African Americans will be resented thereafter by a large segment of the population.  For better, we are now a country of people from all over the world, most of whom had nothing to do with the evils of slavery.  By pursuing reparations, African Americans separate themselves from other immigrants, whether legal or not, and from other segments of our working class and those disadvantaged.  I do not see how that benefits African Americans on a range of other issues. The preferred approach is to adopt programs that benefit all segments of the working class, which presumably will disproportionally African Americans.

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