Originally Posted by pan6467

AND WE ARE DOING THAT WITH THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY.

"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.

We have tried to even the playing field and it is far more even now then it ever has been, but we still talk about how repressed and held down they are so that those who want to use that as an excuse or want to manipulate situations so they don't face, for example assault and battery charges, we still bend over backwards to allow them to do so.

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.

If we keep telling segments they are being held down and forces outside of their control will never allow them to move upward.... they will believe that and use that as an excuse to not try. All reparations will do in the end is give more excuses and build more hatred.

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.

Yet, if 1 innocent African American/black person is affected by true racism, we make sure that they get everything they can and we hold them up as examples to how bad society treats the black person.

But when we find an innocent falsely accused of racism, we don't give them their life back.... we say "FUCK YOU, you probably are a racist or were racist you just weren't in this situation." IF we even care about their innocence at all.

That is a far bigger problem and hypocrisy than going back into history and making reparations for events that no one alive ever, ever partook in.