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If the bill passes their senate and signed into law by idiot Newsom a panel will be formed out of “racial justice” “experts” to “study” (lol) ways to pay reparations

sheer madness

the left just wont let go of racial politics and make progress

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Trying to justify those wasted BS degrees. lol

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I suggest that the Silicon Valley billionaires donate their ill-gotten fortunes to the cause.

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lets form a committee in the next year to discuss ways to repay a group of people that we oppressed for hundreds of years including 200 years of keeping them as actual slaves,100 years of extreme discrimination and to this day treat them as second class citizens in a lot of ways

the cry from those who have done the oppressing---- racism.

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Maybe you and your ancestors did. Not mine. :man_shrugging:

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If you go back far enough everyone is descends from both slaves and slave owners since slavery in one form or another has existed throughout the world.

One of the leaders of Jamestown settlement was a run-away slave; John Smith had escaped from slavery by the Ottoman Turks:

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Not mine either.

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It’s a shame to keep the divide alive. If they really wanted to make a difference they would unite. Call them Americans first. Emphasize family, education and respect for self and others.

A payment isn’t going to do anything.

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Yep, I’m part Slavic after all. Also descended of Jews, Irish, Scotts, and also those Anglos who enslaved them, then later liberated them.

I don’t owe anyone a damn thing, so any of these guilty white libs wanting to pay reparations can do it with their own money, which we know they would never part with when it comes to put up time. Lib lip service at best. :wink:

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Nor did mine.

Egyptians owned slaves. Should Egypt knock down the pyramids that the slaves built?

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Who did the oppressing?

You? Not me.

You give them your net worth.

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We’re all pretty much mutts, lol.

The whole concept is asinine.

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:rofl: Right on!

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I’m a mutt when it comes to ethnicities, but I’m all shades of white, 100% European (which includes western Russia) DNA according to 23andMe.

Interestingly enough, between my nieces/nephews and cousins, I’m also directly blood related to every race there is.

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I am not a slave or slaveowner. This has nothing to do with me. Leave me and my wallet alone. Same should be with everybody. If there are whites who feel guilty about what their great grandparents did, to pay money to people who aren’t slaves, more power to them. Leave our tax money out of it.

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If these people really gave a crap they’d honor the memories of their ancestors and fight slavery as it exists today in their honor. But crickets :woman_shrugging:

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True. They generally don’t care about slavery in existence right now. A lot of slavery, Arab Muslims enslave black Africans right now, as you say, crickets. But since it is Muslims doing the enslaving, and liberals don’t like to say anything bad about Muslims, pretty quiet on that front.

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The fact of the matter is money isn’t the solution.

Drop a check and people who hold onto resentments are still going to have them. Then, you © have people still wanting to stoke the fires.

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Logically the basis for reparations should be the damages that people alive today have suffered as a result of slavery in the US. The question is how much better off would the descendants African slave trade be if US slavery had never existed?

The uncomfortable answer is that without the slave trade, the people who were transported to as slaves to America would have stayed in Africa. Their descendants would have most likely stayed in Africa where the standard of living and opportunities are much less. While the original people who were brutally shipped as slave to America certainly suffered great injustices and damages, their descendants are arguably better off. How does that justify reparations?

Personally I think there are much better arguments for some sort of compensation for federal and state laws that enforced racial segregation and discrimination. Many of the people who directly suffered these injustices are still alive today and their descendants are relatively easy to document.

For example here links to racially discriminatory laws from the New Deal and World War II era:

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I’m not sure why that answer is uncomfortable. It is true. Some folks just cannot see past the resentment that they’ve been taught to harbor for generations.

I can’t disagree with that at all and would actually be in favor of it if still alive today.