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Originally posted by noahfor
I hate the idea of reparations. If blacks wanted to be compensated for their unfair financial standings and living conditions or whatever, I'd be all for that, but wanting to be paid because some people were enslaved a couple hundred years ago is ridiculous. What does being related to the slaves have to do with anything? I mean what exactly do they want to be paid for? They are just more human minds that happen to be born into the bodies of descendants of slaves. Probably everyone on earth is the descendant of a person that was a slave.
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well, i think part of their thinking is (although it may or may not have been stated in the lawsuit) that due to the slave trade and slavery in america, that the black man has had lasting damage done to them as evidenced by the fact that they're still not truely equal to the white man. they're still subordinate when you look at their jobs, housing, and pay. and i agree with them... but...
but... even without slavery and the slave trade, there would still be these problems. maybe not to the current extent, but also, there would a whole lot less black people here.
we have a habit of hating those different than us in lots of ways. whites didn't like blacks, cause they were inferior. we didn't like the irish, the chinese, pretty much anyone that wasn't from england and some other western european countries. and to this day, we have negative stereotypes about these other groups. asian immigrents aren't harmed by it though, for the most part (or, more specifically, the decendents of them), same with the decendents of the irish.
i think what's really going on is that this deadria person sees how shitty life for the black man is compared to the white man, and this is the only way she knows how to stick it to the man. i mean, where does she really think this money is gonna end up? just amongst the eight plaintiffs? hardly.
oh, and to whomever said that they had no identity to be destroyed because there were no blacks here is missing the point. she sees her heriatage as being slavery and oppression, as opposed to her tribal heritage that she would have had if her family had never left africa. kinda funny how she leaves out the africans responsible...