Republicans for slave reparations in exchange for...

I've researched the slave reparations debate for many years. You don't want to open that can of worms. The devil is in the details.

as a liberal - no.

reparations are not owed. you cannot fix history.

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Hawkeye95

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Is that Mike Myers in drag in your avi?

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Is that Mike Myers in drag in your avi?

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no, its the chick from snowpiercer.

Reparations are a complete BS.

You can't make the case without being laughed out the room.

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Reparations for slavery were paid in blood on the fields of Gettsyburg, Fredricksburg, Chattanooga, and Antietam.

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Best answer yet.

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If reparations are owed, then they are owed.

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They were and they were paid in blood, to the tune of 600k lives.

The interest has been paid during the well-intentioned, yet disastrous War on Poverty(tm) - much like its intellectually disabled cousin, War on Drugs(tm), WoP has SHATTERED black families and black communities, and this destruction has spread, like a cancer, to poor families/communities of all stripes.

If one had more confidence in Washington and politicians, one might believe (many do) that it was intentional. But, I see it as simply one bad policy after another, government creating problems in the name of solving them.

Sometimes, the answer is to do nothing or, at worst, stay the course and allow long term problems to be solved by tried and true methods. However, that's difficult to run on, as a matter of politics.

I see a glimmer of hope with conservative blacks standing up and saying, "Dammit - 50 years is enough. One definition of insanity is doing the same thing, over and over, and expecting different results."

Black families and communities were relatively intact at the beginning of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. If they had been left intact, with legal barriers removed, we would probably see a much more equitable distribution of poor people, middle class and wealthy. However, the liberal wing of the Democrat party felt it more prudent to buy/attempt to buy black votes for generations.

How's that working out for y'all, Big Scrub?

I like the idea. Nobody currently nagging us for reparations is going to move to the forest. I'd probably pick up large tracts of land from the naggers for pennies on the dollar.

They already have reparations. It's called Affirmative Action.