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MachineJaipur posted...

But his point does stand though.

Either you have to prove that your ancestors were slaves, which would create INSANE division in Black communities and cause even more violence within their own communities, or you cut a check to everyone based on their skin color, regardless of if their ancestors were ever enslaved. If you're still going with it ostensibly being about "reparations for slavery" and not "reparations for all the suppression the Black/POC community as a whole has suffered"

At the end of the day, there is no scenario where paying reparations doesn't end in somebody dying as a result of it.

https://guides.library.umass.edu/reparations

I doubt all hell would break loose if reparations are paid. It's not difficult to find out who is descended from American chattel slavery and most black immigrants came to the states after the 60s. If anything American reparations to African-Americans would spark a reparations movement across the diaspora to the various European powers that financially benefitted from slavery and exclusion of black people from wealth accumulation, in addition to colonialism.

You can't imagine an America without slavery (and the wealth that it accumulated as a result), and the subsequent discrimination against African-Americans reinforced by the government for generations afterwards. There needs to be recompense.

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