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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So we incentivize people not to work hard and rather just to be lazy and crap out more kids they can't afford. Great.[/quote]

+1000.  If the culture in these families is not to work and save, then the moment they can get their hands on the money most will blow it on short-term gratification.  [/quote]

African Americans have been “working hard” while being hated and abused for over 400 years! If anyone in the States deserves additional support it’s AAs.

All these people spewing hate and ignorance wouldn’t last a month living as an AA, before wanting to end it all![/quote]

ITA on the additional support. I’ve said above I’d be willing to pay $800b for lasting policies, ten times the $80b you’re talking about for reparations.

I just don’t agree that cash handouts are the way to do it. Cash handouts aren’t going to address all the systemic problems like poor education opportunities, prison reform, discrimination, bad health care, and the rest. Cash handouts aren’t going to help everybody move to good school districts—they’re going to raise house prices in the better school districts out of reach, and they won’t support a 30-year mortgage there anyway. At the end of the day, the next generation will still be stuck with bad school districts and bad healthcare.

[b]Several people have raised these points, in various ways. You need to stop talking about “400 years” and start addressing all the concerns about implementation and lasting systemic change.  [/b][/quote]

My point is that AAs have only gained “basic rights” since the late 60s. So you think magically all the problems and trauma that AAs have experienced would be solved in 50 years? Look at Native Americans....

And no, you need to understand that those 400 years are still riding on the backs of every AA in the States. So NEVER tell someone that that was 400 years ago, because that is not your history and your burden.[/quote]

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