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Personally, my priorities are effective programs to help provide equal opportunities for education and homeownership. Changes to education to better capture the true history of white supremacy in the US as well as reduce implicit bias. As well as a formal apology.

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I agree with this, including increasing taxes I pay to support education reforms in poor areas, universal healthcare, more tuition support for college, and homeownership programs targeted at POC. I also support a formal apology issued by the president/congress. I agree that white supremacy and implicit bias have been ongoing problems.

Supporters of cash reparations have failed to make the case for why cash is better than the programs pp lists, and that's why we've gone in circles for 58 pages. When it comes to the budget, the pie is fixed, and we can't do everything. We need to focus on the things that will make systemic change for this and future generations. Whenever somebody talks about "systemic change," though, reparations supporters just blow right past that. It's not at all clear that cash will lead to investment and more wealth, or even that more wealth is the only solution. For example, $50K might help with a deposit on a home in a better school district, but it's going to raise housing prices and, more importantly, it's not going to pay the mortgage going forward.

The justification for cash reparations supports seems to be more that it makes a statement and will mollify people. Whenever somebody asked about systemic reform, the post is either ignored, the response is a Pollyanna-ish "both!", or somebody goes back to the refrain of "it's payback for centuries of systemic discrimination." Which nobody is denying--there have been centuries of racism and discrimination--but we ARE saying, why not address the problem not just for today's generation but going forward.

Until supporters of cash reparations can explain why they're better than other reforms, we'll still see only half of blacks supporting it and just 15% of whites.[/quote]

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