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Originally Posted by pan6467
"It's not your fault you live in poverty. You were never given a chance." If we say that long enough to someone they believe it, they don't try to succeed and they use that to manipulate others to give tacit approval to bad behaviors.
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Pan, it's not the fault of black people that blacks are disproportionately poor. And it's not the fault of non-blacks saying that it's not their fault. It's the continuing existence of inequality dating back to the beginning of our nation.
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Originally Posted by pan6467
We have tried to even the playing field and it is far more even now then it ever has been, but...
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No. No "buts". Some people have worked very hard to level the playing field. And we've made some astounding progress. We're simply not done yet. It's going to take a continuing, tenacious effort to finally push things to equality from inequality. Don't stop now, we're getting closer.
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Originally Posted by pan6467
With EQUALITY, TRUE FUCKING EQUALITY, there is no such thing as looking at the past and putting guilt on one side and allowing the other side excuses for not succeeding.
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Like Manic said before, this isn't about something that ended. It's about something that continued on long after black people were freed. It's something still going on today.
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Originally Posted by pan6467
How many innocent people have lost their jobs, their livelihoods and reputations because they were falsely accused of "racism"? And we allow it. We make excuses for it.
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That's fucking bullshit and you know it. This thread isn't about the tiny, tiny amount of people that are victimized by people abusing white guilt, it's about reparations. Stop being a drama queen. This thread isn't about you being victimized. You're white.
Slavery happened. It was a crime against humanity. For that crime, the government promised to make restitution. The government bitched out. Racism, which you can link directly to slavery, is still going on. It's not too late to make amends, which were promised.
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Originally Posted by Slims
I fail to see how I am responsible for the sins of someone else simply because we share the same skin color. Isn't that sort of categorization more or less what we are trying to get away from in this country?
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You're not responsible. We're all collectively responsible as the population of the republic. We bear the responsibility for our government. Our government promised compensation. Stop thinking like a conservative and start thinking like a citizen.