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Do you support the idea of reparations for African Americans?
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Anonymous 5w

I support building a better current egalitarian system. But I don’t know if reparations are practically feasible anymore

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Anonymous 5w

How would you distinguish an African American vs a black American for this process lmao

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Anonymous 5w

the issue with it is who is paying these? what about the white people who are in poverty compared to a rich African American family? Do they have to pay reparations to them? That wouldn’t make sense, because that’s exactly what people have been fighting AGAINST, “tax the rich” it’s not about being black. It’s about poverty, it’s about homelessness, it’s about differences in equality when it comes to race and gender. Not just black people, but any POC can experience these inequalities.

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Anonymous 4w

It’s kinda nonsensical when you really think about it. We act like everyone was involved in slavery. Literally 1% of the population owned slaves when it was legal. If you want to try and get money from an organization or a large wealthy family that had slaves once upon a time that would make a little more sense but 99% of us have no relation to it whatsoever. Half of my ancestors weren’t even in the country prior to the 1880s. The ones that were here lived in the north and didn’t own slaves.

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Anonymous 4w

The government didn’t create slavery either. It’s been around in every major civilization for thousands of years. The only thing America did differently with slavery was abolish it. There’s really no precedent for it either.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

By doing what specifically

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

Destroying blackstone, redistributing billionaire wealth, and ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ every current administration leader

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

So you’re just a communist

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 5w

The government would be paying the reparations in this fantasy world. And if you think the money comes from taxation it wouldn’t they’d just print money like they did with Covid checks. The poor white person isn’t losing money they just wouldn’t gain

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 5w

To add to my question of WHO, would an 18 year old white person be taxed extra to compensate for something another 18 year old african american person did not experience? Or would the 18 year old pay it to someone who was alive during the time of segregation? I understand generations have been AFFECTED, but why are innocent people being held accountable for their skin color?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

Isn’t that not great for the economy? Just printing money just to give to people? Isn’t that why the government doesnt just print money and give it to homeless people and say here take it build a house?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

To reply to your comment specifically thank you for clarifying about that because I haven’t heard reparations talked about in a while. The last time I heard about it, people were actually talking about taking money from white people lol

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 5w

It’ll never happen anyways, but yes it is bad for the economy and that’s exactly what happened during Covid with the money printing lmao. If the reperations happened most people would squander the money in a year anyways too

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