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JoeyFoxx · 56-60, M
It’s a curious and completely invalid and uninformed comparison.
Slavery isn’t a current issue. That’s simply where it began. No one today is being asked to be accountable for slavery.
HOWEVER, the legacy of slavery and then legislature and business practice that has kept non-whites in an inferior position without equal access to the opportunities of their white neighbors is the issue.
Many of us have been passive (or active) benefactors of the rights that have not been afforded to our non-white neighbors.
If you can’t describe your perspective without a meme, maybe you aren’t all that bright.
Slavery isn’t a current issue. That’s simply where it began. No one today is being asked to be accountable for slavery.
HOWEVER, the legacy of slavery and then legislature and business practice that has kept non-whites in an inferior position without equal access to the opportunities of their white neighbors is the issue.
Many of us have been passive (or active) benefactors of the rights that have not been afforded to our non-white neighbors.
If you can’t describe your perspective without a meme, maybe you aren’t all that bright.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
Graylight · 51-55, F
Nobody is blaming you for slavery.
Let me repeat...Nobody is blaming you for slavery.
Reparations are a way of making whole a people who have been wronged. It's not a perfect solution - doing the right thing in the first place would've been - but it helps even the playing field.
I don't own slaves. My parents didn't own slaves. None of my ancestors did. In fact, we were all busy fleeing land that was oppressing us. But I understand how institutionalized and systemic bias and disadvantage does over time.
Slave and their descendants are the sole people wronged who haven't been paid some kind of reparation. Japanese, Native Americans, Germans, Alaskan natives, eugenics victims, testing victims, victims of torture...but not for slavery. Never once.
No you've got nothing to do with slave trade. No one says you do. That doesn't make us immune to the needs of others and the wrongs of ancestors.
Let me repeat...Nobody is blaming you for slavery.
Reparations are a way of making whole a people who have been wronged. It's not a perfect solution - doing the right thing in the first place would've been - but it helps even the playing field.
I don't own slaves. My parents didn't own slaves. None of my ancestors did. In fact, we were all busy fleeing land that was oppressing us. But I understand how institutionalized and systemic bias and disadvantage does over time.
Slave and their descendants are the sole people wronged who haven't been paid some kind of reparation. Japanese, Native Americans, Germans, Alaskan natives, eugenics victims, testing victims, victims of torture...but not for slavery. Never once.
No you've got nothing to do with slave trade. No one says you do. That doesn't make us immune to the needs of others and the wrongs of ancestors.
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JoeyFoxx · 56-60, M
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Of the unarmed men killed by police, what percentage are white and what percentage are black?