Should the US provide reparations for slavery and Jim Crow?

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116. No I do not notice a correlation between states that had Jim Crow laws, and former slave states.

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Arizona:
1865 - 1956: Miscegenation
1909 - 1962: Segregation

California: (almost too many to mention, Cliff's notes)
1866-1947: Segregation
1880: Miscegenation
1894: Voter rights
1945: Miscegenation

Colorado:
1864: Miscegenation
1908: Miscegenation
1930: Miscegenation (they really didn't want mixed races...)

Connecticut:
1879: Military Segregation
1935: Segregation

Illinois:
1927: Racially restrictive housing covenants

Indiana:
1869: Segregation
1905: Miscegenation
1952: Miscegenation
1955: Adoption

Kansas:
1865: Segregation (part of their constitution), remained in effect almost 100 years

Kentucky:
A shit-ton of laws all written between the end of the Civil War, the last one enacted in 1960

Maryland:
1904: Segregation

Etc... These laws, all post Civil War also existed in Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming. These were not laws that were isolated to just the old Confederacy.

Also, let's not forget the Federal Government while we are at it... You know, those who fought the war to end slavery... Segregation policies all throughout the civil services. Especially in the military... Segregated, and paid on a different scale.

Many of these laws, and policies were still on the books well into my parents lifetimes, as well as some lingering into today. Without any reparations, we are doomed to repeat the past... Today we call it Voter-ID, and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, and the "tough on crime" legislation of the '90's.

So you can wash your hands, and state that the Federal Government paid all reparations by fighting a war to end slavery (or was it to preserve the union?). You just have to do this with the realization that the Federal Government turned a blind eye to these laws, even enacting their own policies, and sat in complete complaisance in Jim Crow laws and all that came of it.