re: And so the reparations talk begins

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So 40 acres and a mule was reneged upon, and then blacks were explicitly precluded from wealth-building homesteading which greatly helped to create the middle class in the US. How about if we tied any reparations to those specific 20% of Americans?

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Under these strange and bizarre theories, the United States government owes money to the Southern States for pillaging and destroying homes, towns, cities, infrastructure, etc after the surrender in the Civil War.

The end game is actually to exterminate white people.

Idk how people can't see this

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You know reparations are the endgame.

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There is no "endgame". Never will be.

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I think President Trump should do his usual: Say something outrageous and FORCE the Democrats to openly endorse Reparations.

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He doesn't have to do anything. The liberal moderators at the debates will bring it up on their own and Biden will be forced to say whether he is for or against it.

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A lot of things have huge impacts on people not being able to build wealth.

Life isnt fair.

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Convenient thing to say, but not really descriptive of the situation.

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No it isn't....it's willful ignorance.

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Yeah, you're right. Most definitely ignorance.

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Do you think it honestly stops here? I mean seriously that’s why I can’t take people seriously especially during these times when everyone is calling for drastic steps. Reparations, then it’s not enough give more, then it’s to other groups, then it’s not just money it’s jobs, land/property etc.

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Certainly not. But that's not what I asked - I asked as a matter of principle. I think the average observer is literally ignorant of the depth/extent of what this country did to keep black people down. I've been reading about this for years, and I always forget 2 or 3 things that she mentioned in this article - any one of which would be the worst thing that could have ever happened to a group.

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Convenient thing to say, but not really descriptive of the situation.

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Yeah, I forgot that the truth hurts some.

Lol

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I think the average observer is literally ignorant of the depth/extent of what this country did to keep black people down.

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If they "took" i.e. taking that would be one thing, what you are saying is they weren't "given" what you think they desired.

There are no damages because there was no taking nor any obligation.

If the United States was involved in a taking which could be calculated than maybe we would be on to something, although the passage of time has made it even that an impossibility. You are not providing anything of a mass taking that I can see.

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I mean not if you believe someone else owes you money based on what someone in their lineage did to yours.

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This continues to be a completely blinkered notion of a what a sovereign state is. The US sovereign state does things ALL THE TIME that fit this description that you don't care about.

The article explicitly addresses the "wait until they die" strategy. The fedgov royally fricked over millions of Americans - for decades. (Local govs did too.) And since the set of humans alive at that time waited long enough, the liability just drifts away? That's bullshite. That isn't how a sovereign works. It's timeless.