Saying it hasn't really helped much so far.
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Originally Posted by Byte1
How would ANYONE have a "case" for reparations? Would they be granted it based on the color of their skin?
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Like I already said, "...
I was not the one who raised the idea of reparations and truthfully, I doubt that it could do a lot of good at this late date. I suppose a lot of people could have a case; none stronger than African-Americans and Native Americans, IMO." And again,
IF there were any chance of reparations (emphasis once again on the
IF), African-Americans and Native Americans would almost have to be the first groups of people considered. I thought that was easily understood.
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Originally Posted by Byte1
How many ways does the country have to say that it's sorry for what folks in the past did? When I said this before, I was including the means of saying "sorry" such as affirmative action/quotas, school grants to minorities, quotas, etc. Is holding today's taxpayer accountable for someone else's mistakes, not the same as punishing the innocent?
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I really don't know "how many ways." If
your ancestors endured slavery for hundreds of years, then decades of legalized discrimination, targeted violence such as lynching, etc., and were then continually reminded of the war to retain slavery via flags & monuments to the leaders of the Confederate states, what would it take before you believed that "sorry" was sincere? Since it is impossible to hold guilty parties of the past financially responsible, how exactly would you suggest funding
any programs to amend for past mistakes? I really don't feel that I am being punished by affirmative action, school grants or putting Civil War monuments in museums. Interesting that you seem to...