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account for what many think are racial characteristics), and that it is racist to think so, but we can't deny that "racism" exists and that this country was founded on it and white supremacy, which stole hundreds of years of labor/money from enslaved black people and denied them and their descendants a legacy of inheritance/family wealth which endures to this day.
We see all the time in media stories on race the charts and graphs that illustrate the huge disparity in family wealth of white v black families. That's a direct result of the centuries of stolen labor so even if there is suddenly a society-wide economic stimulus that benefits everyone, that still leaves black families centuries behind in wealth accumulation that maintains the wealth gap that continues hurting black families, black kids and black communities.
What about that, isn't that now somehow owed, not in checks cut to individuals but maybe compensation in the form of college education, small business grants, job training, community facilities . . . something to acknowledge that centuries of great harm was done that still manifests itself in dysfunction seen in some segments, not all, of the black community today (who benefits can be decided by research, something similar to the Dawes Rolls used to determine Native American heritage in granting land plots, or the way Japanese Americans were compensated for WWll internment).
IMO we can't just say "no harm done for stealing your ancestors' hundreds of years of labor, lets just start now with equal opportunity" and all will be well.
That just doesn't compute IMO. Just think of the principle of compounding. If it were declared that the bill was due now for centuries of stolen dawn-to-dusk labor of hundreds of thousands of enslaved people, even this country couldn't pay. so the US would be getting off easy with just providing free college education, small business grants, job training, and modern community facilities.
Fair is fair. Listen up, America, karmically nature has a way of righting wrongs.
I hope it's different this time than usual. What I mean by that is whenever the subject of reparations is raised, it's followed by dead silence.
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