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I don't agree.

I don't think reparations are the appropriate response to the history. Bad things have been done to everyone at some point. It's up to every single one of us to work the hand dealt to us and to make the most of it. Not to play the victim card.

Exceptions for people with health issues, who have retired, to support any folks down on their luck (black or otherwise) and so on.

Nor can you make anyone guilty for the mistakes of people more than a hundred years ago.

So I think there's no ancestral right to a payout, any more than I believe original sin passes to the descendants of Adam and Eve.


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Wow, that's mighty white of him...
By: clo
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Tue, 18 Jun 19 9:47 PM
Msg. 30586 of 54959

moments ago, @SenateMajLdr McConnell on #Reparations: "I don't want reparations for something that happened 150 years ago...we've tried to deal with the original sin of slavery by passing civil rights legislation and electing an African American president...."


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