reparations: awesome or totally gay?
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S.U.A.D.
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you're joking, right? Please, enlighten then, o wise one. How do they not? Seriously, I'd love to know the spin on this one. And specifically, what careers are blacks denied in today? In the places I have lived (primarily in the Southeast) every job I ever had was majority black. There were black cops, lawyers, judges, bankers, business owners, laborors, etc. Plenty of land owned by blacks, as well. Maybe it upsets you that certain blacks work for what they want? Since I've been in south Texas it's mostly hispanics in every professional walk of life, though there's still all races well represented. Maybe it's different where you live?
I dunno. But like I said, it's no offense to you, so if you're going to debate the point, try not to be an ass.
I dunno. But like I said, it's no offense to you, so if you're going to debate the point, try not to be an ass.
MasterOLightning
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I'll try and make this simple. An individual is born into their parents' world. Those two people were born into their parents' worlds. And so on. People who are born to rich people tend to succeed. Fact. People who are born to poor people tend not to succeed. Fact. Wealth is cumulative, and an absence of wealth is cumulative. The things that crippled black people in the 1800s and the 1850s and the 1900s and the 1950s are crippling them today.
Whether or not you are going to get behind reparations, you'd better get behind some system for improving the lots of blacks, because they are going to be a drain on society if they can't start to do better as a whole.
People are generally not sympathetic enough to what a lot of poor people have to go through.
Whether or not you are going to get behind reparations, you'd better get behind some system for improving the lots of blacks, because they are going to be a drain on society if they can't start to do better as a whole.
People are generally not sympathetic enough to what a lot of poor people have to go through.
S.U.A.D.
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You don't seem to recognize the fact that a lot of blacks have been working hard to CHANGE the status of passed on destitution. Why is this? And honestly, no matter what you believe society should do or how you believe we should manage the poor, in the society we have, there is always going to be the poor, there will always be a lower class. And last I checked, this was NOT solely racially based.
I don't really want to hear about being sympathetic to the poor. No one reached their hand out to me when I lived in my vehicle in Virginia in freezing temperatures because I had no home. I grew up poor, I know what it's like, and it blows, but people can change this without something as unbalancingly drastic as the notion of reparations.
I don't really want to hear about being sympathetic to the poor. No one reached their hand out to me when I lived in my vehicle in Virginia in freezing temperatures because I had no home. I grew up poor, I know what it's like, and it blows, but people can change this without something as unbalancingly drastic as the notion of reparations.
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Mine didn't either. My grandmother on my fathers side's family didn't get here until 200 years ago and weren't involved in slavery or racism, and my grandfather on my fathers side's family didn't get here until about 100 years ago and were discriminated against for being Slovak and Czech. And my mother didn't get to this country until about 30 years which was after Dr. King. And yet black people in my elementary school still tried to place guilt trips on me and I'm not even full-blooded white.
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