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How to Deal With Your White Guilt

That's asinine and completely misses the point.

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dear, try to tell us why its asinine, what the point is and why it misses the point. Notice the way a conservative is made to feel like a kindergarten teacher?
 
dear, try to tell us why its asinine, what the point is and why it misses the point. Notice the way a conservative is made to feel like a kindergarten teacher?

You have no idea what you're talking about. Reparations is not making the guilty pay. It's not paying people that were themselves slaves. Forget whatever BS is pushed by some backwoods militia and consider the facts:

13% of the population was reduced to 0% of the power via slavery. Then Jim Crow and segregation, and injustice continues today. Despite all that, they managed to attain 3% of the power. The other 10% remains in the hands of racists.

We await justice, not retribution or vengeance.

Justice.

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how many oil and coal barons are people of color? How many polluters of our lakes, streams, and wildlands are people of color? The number is vanishingly small. Thus, white people are responsible.

Dear, you have no evidence whatsoever that black people are more environmentally conscious than whites. You have to think before you post and not let your racism do your thinking for you. Do you understand?
 
Historical notes... In general.... The English settled the New England states. The Scots and Irish ended up with less desirable more southern areas.. Hot, disease ridden... And Georgia began as a colony of folks from England's debtor prisons.

IOW the South ended up with the "dregs" of the English Empire (In England's eyes).

yes, one theory holds that blacks got their bad habits from copying these white people!
 
The US government has a responsibility to the people it has wronged in the past

exactly, all people and all governments throughout history have that responsibility. All of humanity is in line looking to leech off the rest of humanity.... if they can get away with it!!
 
Reparations is not making the guilty pay. It's not paying people that were themselves slaves.

If I said it was paying slaves I'll pay you $10,000. Bet??
 
13% of the population was reduced to 0% of the power via slavery. Then Jim Crow and segregation, and injustice continues today.

Blacks today suffer more from crippling liberal welfare programs than from slavery or Jim Crow. Do you want liberals to pay the reparations?
 
Blacks today suffer more from crippling liberal welfare programs than from slavery or Jim Crow. Do you want liberals to pay the reparations?

Stop with the blame BS. Get off the victim train.

13%

Justice.
 
Apparently there is no end to the mileage liberals can get out of white guilt and the threat of reparations! I personally have no guilt since I was born 100 years after slavery ended, and my parents and grandparents were in another country when slavery existed. America is not a commune, we are not even responsible for our parents debts, let alone slavery 200 years ago as practiced by a few Scot Irish southerners. Why not make the descendants of the few white southerners feel guilty and the descendants of the northern opposition feel proud? Why not conclude reparation welfare is likely to be more destructive to blacks than regular welfare entitlements since it is racist and would build upon the crippling affects of regular welfare which, among other things, destroyed love and family in the black community and created the school to prison pipeline.

Don't you also deal with your "white guilt" by repeating to yourself that Jesus only loves white people?
 
Speaking as a white liberal...this is a nothing-burger.

This gets trotted out every few years when some extreme pundit (either left or right) brings it up to cater to a specific audience. It is done to get views or votes. And then once the views or votes are tallied, it quietly goes away.

The reality is that the majority of those on the left and right already know that this isn't going to happen. But the loudmouths who need viewers to keep their programs afloat or those running a losing campaign, appeal to their base with this.
 
Stop with the blame BS.

you don't think liberal welfare programs are to blame for the arrest of black progress? IF we don't know who to blame how will we fix the problem. Do you understand?
 
This gets trotted out every few years .

no, all or most of Democratic presidential candidates have endorsed the idea of reparations. It's never ever happened before.
 
by repeating to yourself that Jesus only loves white people?

if the liberal has evidence of that what so afraid to show it? What does the liberal learn from his fear?
 
The injustices that blacks endured for the 100 or so years that followed the civil war entitles them to reparations of some sort. The government systemically discriminated against blacks which prevented them from getting loans to start businesses and buy homes and build wealth.

Noted: not one link to a source to back up what you stated.


- So these programs don't exists
Top 10 Grants Available to Black, Minority Business Owners [Updated for 2018-2019] - Black Enterprise

Federal Minority Owned Business Grants | Minority Small Business Grants
 
Just trying to figure out why you bothered to start this thread.


Apparently there is no end to the mileage liberals can get out of white guilt and the threat of reparations! I personally have no guilt since I was born 100 years after slavery ended, and my parents and grandparents were in another country when slavery existed. America is not a commune, we are not even responsible for our parents debts, let alone slavery 200 years ago as practiced by a few Scot Irish southerners. Why not make the descendants of the few white southerners feel guilty and the descendants of the northern opposition feel proud? Why not conclude reparation welfare is likely to be more destructive to blacks than regular welfare entitlements since it is racist and would build upon the crippling affects of regular welfare which, among other things, destroyed love and family in the black community and created the school to prison pipeline.
 
You want to repeal the 13th amendment?

conservatives and libertarians would want to repeal the enslaving welfare legislation that created the school to prison pipeline. Do you understand now?
 
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