If reparations is the solution, should we go root cause?

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I just think the intellectual argument for reparations is fatally flawed.

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Every white person could give half of their net worth to the cause. Eventually, more would be demanded. By the way, why stop with reparations just in the US, let's go global.


Every single race has been subject to slavery at one point.

Actually, we probably owed the slaves something and paid them by letting them stay instead of shipping them back to the nightmare of Africa. We likely should have accepted that they were not equipped to compete at the time and concentrated on education and jobs for them.

And a significant number of their offspring are currently receiving reparations already and probably will be for another 100 years. Set asides, quota's, welfare, preferences and more. However some of the best of America are the back folk who took responsibility for their own happiness and ran with it. Like many if not most of the poor white Irish and Scots did. The last thing many black people need now is some sort of bonus check. For some it would be an insult and for many it would affirm their feelings of "no we can't" and for a many it would just be a pass through to a white, Indian or Asian man's hands.

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I just think the intellectual argument for reparations is fatally flawed.

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Of course it is, but this is why they do it....as if it's some sort of big secret;

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And those seeking new ways to engage the Negro politically should remember that public resources have always been the fuel for low-income urban political organization. If organizers can deliver millions of dollars in cash benefits to the ghetto masses, it seems reasonable to expect that the masses will deliver their loyalties to their benefactors. At least, they have always done so in the past.

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what about reparations for the families of Union soldiers who fought and died to free the slaves?

Reparations will never happen and most know it is just a political ploy to gain votes. It would cost massive amounts of spending to determine who is a descendant of slavery, then who owned slaves, who came later, etc. If they just used taxes then black people who pay are paying themselves and that won't work plus the legal lawsuits that would follow.

I ain't giving anyone shite. I will become a bum out of spite.

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Is that a function of time passed or just in general wrt to the concept of reparations?

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It's considered impolite to point it out.........but the bottom line reality is that blacks in the US today are MANY TIMES more well off than their brothers and sisters in the nations from which they were taken. So, giving a black person in 2019 reparations is quite simply asinine.

There. I said it. Everyone lose their shite.

I'm pretty sure any white man that wakes up next to Jemele Hill will say he was raped.

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ETA: To be clear, this is sarcasm. I believe this country has been enriched by our black Americans well beyond plantation slavery. Food, music, science, etc. I just think the intellectual argument for reparations is fatally flawed.

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Foolish

The biggest mistake ever made in the colonies and what later became the US was the African Slave trade.

20+ times the wealth ever generated from slavery has been lost dealing with it's aftermath.

Without the "Great Society" the US would be currently debt free.

22 Trillion has been wasted already and we are still dealing with this bullshite problem.

That is some awful expensive Jazz and Rap music.