re: Black North Carolina Lieutenant Governor, Mark Robinson. No one owes you anything

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I honestly dont care about black people getting reparations, again im only here to say that if jews, japanese and natives deserve reparations then blacks do too.

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Sure seems like you care. And again you are comparing apples and oranges. You keep saying Indians and Japanese but in those instances it was the federal govt not private citizens engaged in stealing established tribal lands or interning Japanese citizens. The business of slavery was a legal business that only a select few were able to engage because of its costs. The vast majority of the populace did not own slaves. So how do you punish people financially via taxation for a legal business practice that most could not afford to participate in? How do you punish the person who owned slaves when it was legal to own them? Now fast forward 200 years and apply those same arguments to both groups of people many many times removed from those circumstances. If it wasn’t fair to punish them then how is it fair to punish us now.