Even the Jews got reparations and holocaust did not happen in the United States. The Japanese got reparations and letter of apology, the Jews got it, the native Americans got it, the native Hawaiians got it. The moment blacks ask for the reparations they are rightfully owed, all sorts of arguments begin to come up. Even if you want to ignore slavery, up to the 60s and 70s, blacks were denied the opportunity to build wealth through redlining and Jim Crow laws. But hey, all lives matter!

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Black-Americans did get reparations following the Civil War. They received the land of defeated Confederates. But Andrew Johnson reversed that and blacks were driven off the land they were given. If we make that right, that would go a long what in repairing the past. Give them what was promised, given and then taken away.

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There’s plenty of land to give in the middle of the US. You could give it to them under the same terms that it was given to some other folk (that they work it). I don’t know how many people would take the offer to go become a farmer, even if they understood becoming a farmer was the easiest and fastest way to get out from under the government dole system. Shoot, give it to me. I’ll have the next Tyson chicken factory in less than 5 years!

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The original BLM! (Bureau of land management)

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Can you please tell when the Jews got reparations from the US for the holocaust? As someone from a family who fled the holocaust (and many family members didn’t make it) and ended up in the US, we received nothing. Please don’t use misinformation about Jews for your political agenda.

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D1 couldn’t agree more. Literally don’t know if a single Jewish family who fled Europe/survived the Holocaust who received any sort of meaningful reparations. This is despite the fact that the Nazis not only tried to eradicate them, but also stole their businesses, homes, and fortunes. So ppl who had worked their whole lives for something were then hunted down and attempted to be destroyed. And those who were fortunate enough to survive (generally having lost parents, siblings, spouses, and/or children) then fled to America where they started from nothing and were also discriminated against (certainly religious Jews were). So if you wanna make an argument for reparations - gd bless, but u lose all credibility when you draw comparisons like this.

Yep, slaves literally built this country

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Absolutely D1 agreed!

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I've learned that America doesn't even care about white lives any more. No one cares that 200k people died of covid.

We live in an apathetic society where people don't even care about saving their own lives. That considered, I don't think America is going to set the subject of reparations right

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Did you or I ever own slaves? No.
Were you ever a slave! No.

I would have been perfectly fine with “forty acres and a mule,” but I am in no way responsible for writing a wrong that took place close to two centuries before I was born. Moreover, most Americans did not own slaves.

Frankly, I don’t owe anyone shit.

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It’s “righting” a wrong, not writing.

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I wonder how much of the problem is the inability to afford the the reparations.

How much would be appropriate? It's gotta be over $1T. Probably closer to $10T? More? How do we actually pay for that without crippling our economy / financial system?

I don't agree it is their right or that they are owed that. My understanding of that promise is that it never became federal law. Sherman doesn't get to amend the constitution by making declarations

The value we're taking about us so in the trillions. There are several ways to estimate the amount, but it's still between $1-10T.

I think the only reasonable way to address this is through complete socialism. We need to confiscate so the with in the country and redistribute it evenly among the population. Nothing else will satisfy.

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