I wasn't pissy the first 300 times I explained it, Pan, but eventually it gets old. I'm getting tired of repeating myself to you.
This thread is about reparations for slavery. Since I think we all agree that sending out checks is a bad idea, it then moves to what should be done in order to deal with the real issue: social and financial inequality. And yes, social and financial inequality aren't just a phenomena in the black population, but this thread is specifically about the black population so that's our context for discussion for better or worse. This is a very, very simple concept, and you're intentionally not accepting this simple explanation, as evidenced here:
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Originally Posted by Pan6467
When someone points out that you are still only focusing on one group and not ALL in poverty, this then becomes a thread where we are supposed to only talk about blacks. But.... the social programs are supposed to be for ALL, but you only want the blacks to succeed and therefore if the programs work and pull people of all races and groups out of poverty but the blacks aren't moving upward as fast (by your stats and in your mind).... then those programs must be failures because it didn't help the group you put the primary focus on.
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Nowhere in this thread or anywhere else did I say I only want black people to succeed. You made that up, and it's that point that I never made that you keep pressuring me to explain. Sorry, I won't indulge your strawman. I never said I only want "the blacks" to succeed, I simple named them specifically because the thread is about reparations. I also said, numerous times, that I want the poor to succeed. That's the whole idea. I want the poor to have a more equal footing. Because black people are disproportionately poor, that works within the framework of the thread.
Stop putting incorrect words in my mouth and move on. This is the last time I'll respond to this issue.