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Originally Posted by Willravel
Pan, the thread is about reparations, so I outlined necessary and sweeping social reform in a racial context in order to explain why it was applicable to the thread topic. Okay?
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Not that hard to say, "I don't believe in Reparations for one race, but I do believe we need to help ALL in poverty." That would be an opinion on the Reparations question.
You seemed and still do, want to focus solely on how we screwed the blacks, still do and thus they deserve far more.
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The truth is that giving scholarships and such to the poor would be giving scholarships and such to the descendants of slaves, and NOWHERE in the thread did I say ONLY black people.
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Read the highlighted parts of the posts I quoted Will. Show me where you talked about how your definition of "reparations" was meant for ALL people in poverty.
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Nowhere. If this thread were about illegal immigration into the US from central and south America, I'd have said "we need sweeping social reform for Latino immigrants and children of immigrants", but I would have been making a call for the exact same social and governmental changes. Understand? I'd not be saying, "let's turn away whites, asians, and blacks... only let Latinos partake of the social change" at all, and you know it.
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Then say what you mean. There's a difference between saying "social reform for ALL people and not just for blacks, than to go on and on about how the whites and our government owe the blacks.
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You assume by specifically naming black people I was excluding everyone else. That assumption was obviously wrong. Now that I've explained the position in the clearest way I can, we can move on.
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Again, point out in the posts I quoted you where you mention helping anyone else but blacks. Or point it out in posts before the question was asked and you waffled.