Should the US provide reparations for slavery and Jim Crow?

[apnu]

150. I meant tony53t, not the OP of the thread.

But the question is a good one, why do we advocate for one group but ignore others? The injustice Africans faced in America is the same injustice as Native Americans. This is something we on the left struggle with. We pick out one thing and push for it, but ignore others. In our rush to be inclusive we wind up excluding. And tony's point is right on that mark. We, the general lift, tend not think of justice in a way that applies to everybody. I see talk about racial injustice to African Americans, or Latinos, or Asians, or Native Americans. Not African Americans AND Latinos AND Asians AND Native Americans AND Women AND so on.

We continue to compartmentalize and divide groups among ourselves and by doing so we continue the injustice because we do not see human beings as human beings. Until we get there, any progress will come in fits and starts.