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Originally Posted by pan6467
We have an African American as president right now..... wtf higher glass ceiling is there? And people still want to say this is a racist country and we hold the black man down?
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Once you get past the sadness that comes along with the realization that this is very likely one of the most intelligent forums on the web and yet it harbors opinions as hopelessly naive as this - these threads are actually quite funny.
Check the dates
here. People seem to think that everyone magically became equal the second slavery was abolished.
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Originally Posted by Frantz Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth
Colonization is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it.
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We're talking myriad effects here. How anyone could even begin to put a number on that is beyond me but, even then, that amount could hardly be considered reparations when the playing field is so obviously uneven. Not to mention the shitload of deserving groups.
Even if cash reparations would do some good, I'd imagine we'd fair better if we took a serious stab at ensuring that "We The People" actually referred to all of us.
Kudos to Willravel for being such a masochist that he takes these threads seriously.