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In reply to the discussion: Should we pay Reparations for Slavery? [View all]MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)Where I live, many of the white people roll up and close their businesses and move once people of color start to move into an area. Fact is, those white people were able to open those small businesses because of generational wealth and discrimination. It always leaves me aghast when I meet white small business owners and they complain of their lot, how sad it is they are closing when their grandfather or great-grandfather started the business. Give me a break. POC didn't have that wealth or those opportunities when your grandfather started out. You had a huge head start.
Anyway, what I meant to say is that reparations would benefit everyone living in these communities, it would revitalize them as dollars would come back INTO THE COMMUNITY instead of leaving. It would be a fantastic revitalization of many places.
And Donald Trump goes on and on about "infrastructure" and "making America great again", and his followers bitch about what has happened to many towns and how the downtowns aren't there anymore - all of this nostalgia for a time when the USA wasn't truly "great" anyway, but they oppose reparations, which would spur a revival of many communities, and Trump would no longer have nothing to bitch about.