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Originally Posted by djtestudo
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I don't interpret the 16th amendment as such. SCOTUS has ruled that Income is defined as "Gains". The have also defined your labor as "an even exchange of goods (money) for services). Hence, you did not "gain" anything from your labor - you evenly exchanged your labor for money. If you take your money and invest it in property or stock, then you can have "gains" on your investment and it is fair game.
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Originally Posted by smooth
it's more like: the group that historically fucked over another group of people isn't qualified to tell the group who's been fucked over that they've been made up to. Try it with your girlfriend sometime, piss her off and then announce that you're tired of apologizing and you've done enough. see how far that gets you....
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If this is the case - I would like the NAACP to compensate me for the death of 3 relatives who fought for the Union army to free their people and give Obama this opportunity. I mean, my people certainly didn't "fuck" his people, we helped them immensely - gave our lives doing it. If we are going to repair what we did to them, I think they need to repair the sacrifice my family made too.
Better yet, let's just call it even and move on.
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Originally Posted by timalkin
A black person has attained what is arguably the most powerful position the world has ever known.
What else do white people need to do in order to "correct the mistakes of the past?" How many more black Presidents, Secretaries of State, Congressmen, Governors, doctors, lawyers, etc. do we need to have before everybody is even?
If not now, when? The answer to that question is "never," based on most of the responses in this thread. If the answer to that question is left up to black people, of course the answer will be "never." Why would they ever give up the privileges that have been bestowed upon them?
Liberal apologists have created a politically-correct monster that will never stop.
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Apparently, at least one more...
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Originally Posted by Derwood
One man rising above and becoming President doesn't erase the reality that millions of other Black Americans are still struggling.
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Why is that "my fault" and why do I have to pay for that?
Obama's position in this country is proof positive that the opportunities for any person in America is limitless. I can't make someone take the opportunities available to them.