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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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If we do reparations, we'll have less money and less political support for programs that actually matter for dismantling systemic racism. Like better public schools in poor areas, universal healthcare, subsidized college education. [/quote]

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Reparations don’t necessarily have to be a cash payout. It could be investing in education and homeownership.

And black people shouldn’t be pushing for reparations - WHITE people should. White people were wrong and need to fix it. 
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Well reparations usually means money and plenty of people have said that's exactly what they want.   You don't get to redefine the word just because you'd settle for something else.

Politics is not a 12-step group where we admit our faults and make amends.  It's an ongoing negotiation for dividing up power and resources among various groups.  If you don't advocate for what you want, nobody will give it to you.
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