Should the US provide reparations for slavery and Jim Crow?

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142. The past is tied to the present ....

Slavery created current conditions. It is a historical racist continuum, from slavery through the terrorism of Jim Crow, right up to the current day. Blacks lived in near-slavery conditions after slavery was officially and terrorized out of their new constitutional rights by white supremacists.

This history is unique, and does not apply to women, or people who lived in the Appalachians. The oppression of slavery did not end with slavery.

This is the difference between you and me. I see that American society has a collective duty to right a historic and racist wrong; you don't see a collective responsibility, you don't see the modern results of past oppression creating current poverty. I've given you examples but you ignore them. You mount a specious argument that others are equally oppressed as groups, when they are not.

I suggest you read "The Case for Reparations" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, it might help you understand the issues better.