If we have to pay blacks for slavery 200 odd years ago then in the same vein and thinking the germans need to pay all those countries whos people they murdered in their death camps during the second world war .
@Rhode57 I don't think you'll find anyone who disagrees with that, either. But that wasn't your point, was it? You're just desperately grasping at something, anything, to deflect.
@LordShadowfire No I was actually saying in the same vein we can go on blaming past generations for our own short comings or stop crying like babies and making out were victims or grow a pair pull our selves up by our short strings and take responsibility for ourselves and work at making positive changes for ourselves .
@Rhode57 Or... OR... you can look at how our government treated an entire race of people for centuries and acknowledge that, instead of calling the people who are still affected by it today a bunch of victims.
@LordShadowfire Well, if you want to get literal it wasn't for centuries. It was less than 100 years. In specific areas of the country. But that aside, do the tens of millions of black people succeeding and having good lives get their share of the pie too? What about the mixed race people? Do they lose out because they're not black enough? Do you know a lot of black people? Have you ever asked them about reparations? You should. I don't think you'll hear what you think you'll hear. What I know for SURE is that monetary reparations will do NOTHING to impact the wealth gap. And will only sow more division. Investments. That's how things will change.