Whether if you agree or not black Americans are owed reparations

Black Americans who are descendants are owed reparations not just from slavery but for the following: Jim Crow, redlining, inhumane experiments for war, inhumane experiments that were used to further medical practices, forced sterilization burning down our towns, racist propaganda in school books, the CIA causing the crack epidemic, and lastly giving reparations to former slave masters.

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Dominus · 31-35, M

Should the indigenous Americans we took the land from also get them? The Japanese Americans we put into internment camps? All the survivors of military members who were subjected to and still are subjected to medical experiments? The families of Mexican-Americans who fought in Iraq & Afghanistan in exchange for citizenship and were then deported? The Mexican families whose children were taken from them at the border? Lastly, where does this money come from?

rhouse · 56-60, M

YES. When you are found guilty of a crime, nobody ever asked where the money to pay the fine should come from. @Dominus

Dominus · 31-35, M

@rhouse Correct. But the last time I was found guilty of a crime I was 14 years old. That had nothing to do with paying everyone who has ever been wronged by the government throughout history.

Where does the money come from again?

rhouse · 56-60, M

I am not worried about the money. I am worried about correcting the wrong. @Dominus

Dominus · 31-35, M

@rhouse Honestly I am too. And frankly I fully support BLM and police reform. (I am white) but I have become concerned that the message is getting lost and has become too far over-reaching and now fear nothing will be done because of it. BLM has remained true to their mission but others are jumping in and the police reform was in my opinion far more important than the statues, flags or anything else.

rhouse · 56-60, M

I partially agree with you but police reform without removing statues to those who fought to keep you enslaved is a hollow victory. We (as white Americans) need to understand that we can't offer apologies (police reform) while continuing the same practice (showing them that we still hold true to our ideals as the master race). I know that was a Nazi ideal but it is really no different than the enslavement of blacks. @Dominus

Dominus · 31-35, M

@rhouse I support removing the statues and all forms of bigotry whether symbolic or practiced. At this time and throughout my life the greatest injustices I have witnessed towards black Americans has been their unlawful incarcerations and their murder by police officers. In my opinion those are the most critical issues that need to be handled first. There is momentum to get something monumental accomplished but if it becomes too convoluted with various side issues I feel nothing at all will be resolved or accomplished.

All I am proposing is dealing with one issue at a time and starting with what I perceive as the most serious.

Zenyatta · 26-30

@Dominus Thank you for being so predictable.

Dominus · 31-35, M

@Zenyatta By providing inconvenient and irrefutable facts? You're welcome.

Zenyatta · 26-30

@Dominus No actually, this was a test post and I wanted to see how many people could all lives matter this post. I’ve learned that if you put black in it that people will throw a hissy fit over it. I notice that when other POC make posts pertaining to their specific people they do not catch flack for it, but when black people do it...well hopefully you see where I am going with this. Also Japanese Americans got reparations like 2 years ago if I remember correctly. Thanks for exposing yourself “ally”

Dominus · 31-35, M

@Zenyatta Oh in that case thanks for your passive-aggressiveness. It's a characteristic most people put on their list for "people to avoid." I notice that you did not respond to any of my questions except one cherry-picked question. I never was your ally, I was there at the beginning of BLM, protesting. I am willing to bet that you were not. You are precisely the type of person I've been warning about, everything or nothing types who prevent others from receiving justice.

Zenyatta · 26-30

@Dominus Well for one my reply was for literally all your questions. Two you do not know what my actual views are. Three I genuinely do not believe anything you’re saying in regards to being an ally your tone says it all for me. I told you what this post is for, so take the obvious hint