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California about to be the first state to administer reparations!s
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California about to be the first state to administer reparations!s
March 30, 2022 at 8:37 pm
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RE: California about to be the first state to administer reparations!s
March 30, 2022 at 8:47 pm (This post was last modified: March 30, 2022 at 8:50 pm by Kitan Etos.)
Looks like lots of black people are going to consider moving to Cali after they've checked out Ancestry.com.
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March 30, 2022 at 8:56 pm (This post was last modified: March 30, 2022 at 9:12 pm by Huggy Bear.)
@Foxaire

I don't see a problem with that, all the yt people moving out and a lot of them are coming to my area (Boise) and driving up the real estate value (value of my home increased by 300%).

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RE: California about to be the first state to administer reparations!s
March 30, 2022 at 11:17 pm
You live in Boise?  No wonder you're tense.

The government has paid "reparations" to people who need help for 80 years.  They simply call it something else.  Descendants of slaves are entitled to more than welfare, in my experience and estimation.  So, I agree with such measures.  But I wonder, are descendants of slaves willing to call it "even" after that?
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RE: California about to be the first state to administer reparations!s
March 31, 2022 at 12:56 am
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I wouldn't say that reparations are "help", reparations is what the U.S. owes for forcing a group of people to build it for free.
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RE: California about to be the first state to administer reparations!s
March 31, 2022 at 3:55 am
While I think reparations are the right thing to do, I'm a little unclear about something - the title of the article (and comments within the article) says the reparations would be allowed for 'direct descendants of enslaved people only', but the wording of the actual motion says 

Quote:determined by an individual being an African American descendant of a chattel enslaved person or the descendant of a free Black person living in the US prior to the end of the 19th century,

So, is it descendants of enslaved Black people only, or it is descendants of enslaved Black people AND the descendants of free Black people in the US prior to 1901?

To be clear, I'm not objecting to either scenario.

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RE: California about to be the first state to administer reparations!s
March 31, 2022 at 4:51 am
I'm wondering, since white slave owner men did rape and/or have consensual sex with black slave women, will white people descended from slaves also receive these reparations?
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March 31, 2022 at 5:09 am
No, but neither will most black people, either. That's sort of the point of the whole charade.
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RE: California about to be the first state to administer reparations!s
March 31, 2022 at 11:45 am
(March 31, 2022 at 12:56 am)Huggy Bear Wrote: @Ranjr

I wouldn't say that reparations are "help", reparations is what the U.S. owes for forcing a group of people to build it for free.

I would say that "help" is part of reparations.  Slaves were treated horribly, but not genocidally.  Descendants who need extra help deserve it.  Those who don't need it overcame the mistreatment of their forbearers.  

That's why I don't take advantage of benefits available to me because of my grandmother.  Her people walked the Trail.  But I did alright.
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RE: California about to be the first state to administer reparations!s
March 31, 2022 at 12:12 pm
Why didn't they include the indigenous native americans? Fuckin racists.
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