this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ffs stop trying to turn the memes instance into a political shithole

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

How do you sort out who rightfully deserves the reparations and who should rightfully pay because of past slave ownership?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reparations should be given not in the form of direct monetary payments, but massive investment in black communities and especially schools and scholarships. All black people in America suffer from systemic racism, so build a system they all benefit from regardless of who their ancestors were. Giving out monetary reparations won't solve any problems. This system will provide permanent benefits to all current and future black Americans.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Almost as if you should fix the system, not compensate individuals financially.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

lemmygrad.ml moment

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The tough issue is that while they did end slavery they never changed ownership and slaves didn't own anything so all the people in this thread arguing how to identify actual victoms are idiots! It's the same debate we have with cononialism just on a far smaller scale and there is no easy solution but none isn't sufficient ether!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US did not completely end slavery. Prisons can treat prisoners as slave labor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

True, especially considering the way they use it and the reasons they might make you one for!