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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey. Both sides of my family immigrated here in the early 1900s. Do I have to pay too? Also, will black people have to pay taxes that will pay to pay them back? Hmmmm....[/quote]

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Exactly.

And for the people who didn’t bother to read, and keep asking this question, YES, you are responsible for reparations.

It doesn’t matter if you are an immigrant who showed up here two years ago, or twenty years ago.

You benefited from a social structure with baked in racism. The institutions that helped you advance in this country, regardless of how hard you “worked,”  have been oppressing us for four centuries.[/quote]

You get the good and the bad that comes with the US. You can't pick and choose, entitled immigrants.

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Well, I suspect many immigrants will not see it that way, especially if you ignore their own histories and call them racist names.  And there are more of them than there are of you, so as long as this is a democracy, you may simply be outvoted.[/quote]

I haven't called immigrants racist names or ignored their stories.

-descendent of immigrants
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Well I think the term "entitled immigrant" is racist and this thread has had worse examples in regards to immigrants.  This thread is all about ignoring other people's stories, so that one particular story is favored.  Maybe that's only natural when you've been the most disfavored group for so long, but that doesn't make it right. [/quote]

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