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Thoughts on white people having to pay slavery reparations?

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Yes, they should- it's only fair, and an equalizer
No, that makes no sense and is stupid asf
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Doomflower · 36-40, M
Some hippies and stargazers don't understand that the effects of slavery persist generations later.

Think of two families, one black and one white. Both families came to the USA when it was still colonies. The black family was enslaved and the white one was poor.

The white family today lives in a house in a modest suburb but the black family lives in a poor one with lots of crime. Why is that? What does that have to do with slavery!?

The black family was owned and worked for generations and received zero compensation. They had no opportunities to build wealth until *checks notes* 155 years ago. Even after that point, we have video of black people trying to go to school with white kids and white people losing their fvcking minds. So you know every opportunity they got they had to fight for.

Then there are the psycho social effects of generations of trauma up to and including alterations to the genome.

Meanwhile the white family had a two hundred year head start. I'm not saying it was easy but they had objectively fewer challenges than the black family. There weren't institutional barriers against them the way there were against black people.

So it makes sense to give people of color assistance to cover the gaps. Those gaps will exist until we heal the damage caused by generations of trauma and that will take consistency and time.

But that all requires more subtlety and effort than "well slavery is over so... good job, discrimination ended! Let's never speak of this again!"
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@Doomflower that is such a well written answer.

I would love to know who down voted it
Doomflower · 36-40, M
@InOtterWords pat kirby

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@Doomflower this person has blocked me.... obviously knows i would necer agree with them 🤣
@Doomflower Most sensible and to-the-point answer….couldn’t have said it better.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@InOtterWords [quote]that is such a well written answer.

I would love to know who down voted it[/quote]

The Russian agent?