(07-01-2019, 05:30 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(07-01-2019, 05:17 PM)mikesez Wrote: All of those arguments are sound.
So what if, instead, they claim that the reparations they want are actually for a hundred years of legalized housing discrimination, employment discrimination, and education discrimination?

Then it is no longer a Reparations For Slavery movement and becomes a Reparations For A Hundred Years of Legalized Housing Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, and Education Discrimination movement, which then opens it up to the descendants of the Chinese, Japanese, Irish, Italians, Jews, American Indians, and myriad other groups. We'll all just pay each other $20 and call it even.

American Indians have gotten a lot of consideration already, and maybe should get more.

As for the others, they faced private employment discrimination, but not much else.
They did not get forced into separate public schools.  
They did not get their neighborhoods marked as "no-go" zones for FHA loans.
They had equal access to government jobs (the Wilson administration famously fired a lot of black clerical and postal workers, and re-segregated the rest. But Catholics and Jews went unscathed)

The discrimination that Jews and Catholics faced was more private than public. If reparations are owed, they would be from private individuals. I say this with both types of people in my family tree.

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