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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there may be a moral basis for reparations.  But wouldn’t the economic benefits of race based affirmative action over the last decades have to be taken into account too, to arrive at an appropriate payment amount?  [/quote]

How would you measure that?

If you look at the income and wealth gaps, we haven't made any progress.

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/working-papers-institute/iwp9.pdf
[i]"The historical data also reveal that no progress has been made in reducing income and wealth inequalities between black and white households over the past 70 years"[/i]
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What happens when you take Bezos, Gates, and Zuckerberg out?

We've significantly increased income inequality over the past several decades. But that's not the same issue as the wealth inequality between white and black people.[/quote]

Yup - I think the to make the racial wealth disparity stick so that it's exactly the same now as it was in 1950, you have to attribute the wealth of like the 100 astronomically wealthy white people and attribute it to white people generally.[/quote]

Well they benefit from white privilege so it's accurate to include them. 
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