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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ Nobody is going to give you a dime. Even if they did, nothing would change and you would still have a million excuses. Maybe you could learn something from immigrants who came from far more challenging circumstances.[/quote]

Far more challenging?  I'm reading a book called "White Rage" by Carol Anderson, a professor at Emory.  She tells a story of a black man who worked for a brutal plantation owner in the 1920s in Valdosta, GA.  He beat the men who worked for him.  One day, a man fought back and killed him.  In retaliation, the white people lynched 20 random black people.  Including a man and his wife.  The wife was 8 months pregnant.  Her name was Mary Tyler.  They tied her up and burned her while she was alive.  They cut the baby from her and then when it fell to the ground, it cried.  A white man talked over and stomped its head.

None of the white mob got tried or went to jail.  Learn some history before you come on her talking about circumstances.  You don't know sh!t.

Whether you like it not, black people built this country for free.  Did immigrants do that?  You clearly don't know your history and sound ignorant.  It's sad really.[/quote]

That's a very lovely story and you tell it so well...such enthusiasm.

Fact is you can find similar stories from every race and every nation. It's not unique. You show zero sympathy for the trials and tribulations of your fellow man. Why would you expect or deserve reparations for anything?[/quote]

But we live in America and this is America's story, not that of another nation.  Did other immigrants in America suffer this way for 300 years?  Waiting...  [/quote]
You don't get to play that card if you don't recognize that there are all sorts of people in this country who have connections to people who were being raped and tortured long before Columbus sailed the ocean blue. It's not all about what may or may not have happened in the last 400 years. Go back further and further. The problem is with human nature. If you need someone to point the finger at, point it at Eve the original sinner.[/quote]

Quick to pass the buck and blame a fictional person instead of taking some (collective) responsibility, huh? 
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Excellent job only focusing on the last sentence and ignoring the rest. BTW, some people believe in GOD.[/quote]

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