(06-28-2019, 09:14 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(06-28-2019, 08:35 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: My Serious, Serious question to anyone saying there should be reparations paid.

Would you rather be here now... or in Africa dying of AIDs or working in a diamond mine, or being ethnically cleansed because you're just a little bit darker than the people next door?

Cause Russell Wilson wouldn't have even made it this far if he wasn't a descendant of slaves.

I don't know anybody in real life who thinks that paying reparations is possible or desirable.

Personally, I acknowledge that this country owes the descendants of slaves something.

At the very least, we should acknowledge how a lot of the intense economic development that happened in the Americas during the years 1500 to 1890, that we still enjoy the fruits of today, was on their uncompensated and abused backs. That's like morally the bare minimum. Acknowledge it and don't make excuses for it.

The next thing we can do is recognize that this gives our government, which aided and abetted this practice for so long, a duty to specially uplift communities of color. I think we can do that through certain color blind policies that are targeted at the poor in general.

The idea of reparations is ridiculous. Reparations for African Americans should've been paid 150 years ago, but but since all those truly effected by slavery are all dead, the issue should be dead as well. Like I said, if any reparations are to be paid, it should be to Native Americans, currently living on reservations. No one else. Period.

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