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I support the acknowledgment that the root of the socioeconomic differential between blacks and white America is rooted in the centuries of racial oppression and discrimination against black people, which included, but was not limited to, slavery. To the agree that the American government formally acknowledged such, that is the reparations I support. The REPAIRING of the knowledge of how it came to this situation. Ergo, reparations.
I'm curious how you think that works. There are state/local/federal levels of government most of which are very divided. There is no collective "government". If Obama had come out and said this would you be satisfied? How would you reconcile that with the fact that he doesn't speak for everyone?
The liberals need blacks to be poor little victims who can't get anywhere with out mommy government holding their hand. It's the liberals who are the bigots.
Libs look at a person, and all they see is their skin color. Even Obama, who was the president of the US, was never anything to the left but a poor, set upon black victim. So, it does not matter what you achieve to the left, they will only ever see a poor, set upon, black victim. They put you in a box, and list all your assumed weaknesses. To the left, skin color defines everything about you. There is nothing you can do to climb out of that box they put you in.
Except for getting elected president and all. Does it escape you that we voted for him he didn't get the office because anyone felt sorry for him. And tens of millions of blacks are dems too, how do you explain it to where they're duplicitous too? What nonsense.
For every $100 of wealth accumulated by a white family, a black family has little more than $5 -- a gap just as wide as it was 50 years ago, according to federal statistics cited by the Yale researchers.
An apt choice of verbs there. Yes. most people with any wealth have done something to accumulate it, they don't just have it. Some thought must be given to the future and some action taken to secure it. And no, the gap isn't due to redlining, which hasn't existed during the 50 years in question. This is about future orientation and the lack of it.
You don't like to hear it, but black people could solve at least half of their problems by emphasizing the need to have children after marriage - and seeing that it happens. Way too much out-of-wedlock births to ever escape poverty, as a whole.
1. Finish high school
2. Don't have babies as an unwed teen and/or until you can support them without government assistance
Tada!
I am sure that someone, back during the Holocaust, could have come up with a list of ways that Jews could have avoided the tragedy that befell them. Unless you walk in someone shoes......you are just an arm chair quarterback watching the play from your TV and thinking you would be SUPERIOR in the same situation. You have not walked in OUR shoes.....and you don't even know our size....so STOP IT
An apt choice of verbs there. Yes. most people with any wealth have done something to accumulate it, they don't just have it. Some thought must be given to the future and some action taken to secure it. And no, the gap isn't due to redlining, which hasn't existed during the 50 years in question. This is about future orientation and the lack of it.
When walking home from school and staying alive is your priority, the opportunity to plan for the future is impinged upon.
I'm curious how you think that works. There are state/local/federal levels of government most of which are very divided. There is no collective "government". If Obama had come out and said this would you be satisfied? How would you reconcile that with the fact that he doesn't speak for everyone?
When walking home from school and staying alive is your priority, the opportunity to plan for future is impinged upon.
That's their own faults for not cleaning up their neighborhoods by working with the police to arrest the bad guys who are threatening their lives. They WANT to live like that.
Where planning for the future is generally absent, walking home from school and staying alive may become your priority.
Which you'll agree is hard to escape.
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