Anonymous
07/23/2020 14:50
Subject: It's (finally) time for reparations. It's time for the US to pay its debt.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The time has come
A facts a fact
It belongs to them
let’s give it back.
Seriously,this is a great 23andme scheme. All descendants of slave owners must give 75% of their wealth to all descendants of slaves. Do the genealogy and send out the bills. The rest of us sons and daughters of immigrants and non-slave owners and Native Americans are left out of it. Meanwhile, NAs get 1/2 of Oklahoma and take over 1/2 of all oil and natural gas fields. Tulsa casinos here we come!
I'm descended from slave owners and slaves. And I have native American blood. My kids are 50% hispanic. Who pays what?
No one. All the people involved are long dead, nothing to do with you or your kids.
Anonymous
07/23/2020 14:47
Subject: Re:It's (finally) time for reparations. It's time for the US to pay its debt.
Anonymous wrote:No amount would ever be enough. But as a practical matter, what’s a ballpark figure — $250,000 per person? Guessing this happens in 2023.
Ka-ching!
Anonymous
07/23/2020 14:47
Subject: It's (finally) time for reparations. It's time for the US to pay its debt.
Anonymous wrote:No on reparations, ever. That debt has long been paid.
+1
It's embarrassing anyone would think they are entitled to money for misdeeds a bunch of strangers did a century ago.
Anonymous
07/23/2020 14:46
Subject: It's (finally) time for reparations. It's time for the US to pay its debt.
You can keep all of these academic discussions going as long as you like but I and many others aren't paying sh*t because we're not responsible for any of this. And Biden will follow Carter as a one term President if he even attempts this.
Anonymous
07/23/2020 14:42
Subject: Re:It's (finally) time for reparations. It's time for the US to pay its debt.
No amount would ever be enough. But as a practical matter, what’s a ballpark figure — $250,000 per person? Guessing this happens in 2023.
Anonymous
07/23/2020 14:35
Subject: It's (finally) time for reparations. It's time for the US to pay its debt.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So how would it work? Cash payments? Who qualifies.
This is all nice in concept, but it's almost certainly unconstitutional for the government to give cash payments to only one racial group, or even establish social programs for only black people.
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 wasn't unconstitutional and that gave reparations to a specific ethnicity.
No, it gave reparations to individuals who were interred because of their ethnicity.
Right. SCOTUS ruled that the USG can give reparations to a specific group for a discrete act by the government. So in this case you could maybe justify payments to descendents of slaves, but inasmuch as "systemic racism" isn't one discrete act by the government, reparations payments or targeted programs open to all Black Americans but no one else would almost certainly be unconstitutional, as it would discriminate based on race, and thereby violate the Civil Rights Act and probably the equal protection clause.
Why is systemic racism not a "discrete act"?