slavery reparations.

[scaredyclassic]

ok then, how about a chunk of money for all slave descendants. just roll the printing presses.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

this really makes me sad and worried. radicalized black lawyers who had so much to lose throwing molotov cocktails? imagine the rage…

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/nyregion/nyc-protests-lawyer-molotov-cocktail.html

[Coronita]

Since we are in the spirit of reparations, how about

1. We give back most of California land that was once farm land belonging to Japanese Americans that were sent off to camps.

2. Where is the compensation for all the Chinese that were worked to death building railroads?

[Coronita]

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[scaredyclassic]

[quote=Coronita]Since we are in the spirit of reparations, how about

1. We give back most of California land that was once farm land belonging to Japanese Americans that were sent off to camps.

2. Where is the compensation for all the Chinese that were worked to death building railroads?[/quote]

good thought. I recently visited the japanese camps up by lone pine near death valley. fascinating place to visit. worth checking out. MANZANAR.

https://www.nps.gov/manz/index.htm

however; that relocation was never found to be unconstitutional. sure it was racist and evil, but constitutional.

slavery however, was found to be constitutional rights violation so im not sure the japanese americans have a cognizable claim. but maybe. sure seems liek ti would be fair.

as to the chinese railroad workers, i don’t know. were they willingly there? not sure about this one . need more facts.

[Coronita]

Every white person should return all their property to an American Indian and work at an Indian reservation casino.

If you can’t tell by now, I wasn’t serious about anything.

Perhaps a more practical approach might simply to consider is to round up the minute small part of “bad actors” of our society and put them on trial and bring back the death penalty. And for the rest of our society to forgive and move on from the past knowing that most of the people probably realize the past was wrong and cannot be changed.

And by the very same logic that not every black person walking down the street is a crimnal, not every white person is a racist.

[FlyerInHi]

Before the Indians, the Mexicans should be compensated. Mexican landowners were forced to give up they land at gunpoint after the US annexed California.

[Coronita]

And since Chinese people are one of the oldest civilizations, many of you westerners still owe us from the days of the Opium wars, where many of you Europeans stoke all the treasures, gold, etc from the then Chinese emperor after the then China refused to participate in the then Opium drug trade. That’s why so much ancient Chinese set and artifacts can still be found in Museums in UK.

[Coronita]

I don’t need you apologists to make other white people apologize for some things that some other white people might have done in the past.

All I need you to do is to not screw around and make things unequal for others moving forward as a concession to appease some African Americans that were wronged.

[svelte]

[quote=Coronita]I don’t need you apologists to make other white people apologize for some things that some other white people might have done in the past.

All I need you to do is to not screw around and make things unequal for others moving forward as a concession to appease some African Americans that were wronged.[/quote]

Totally agree.

Absolutely hate that there was slavery in the past, but that was generations ago. Many American Indians in my family tree and my wife’s family tree, but we aren’t asking for our land back, or compensation for the severe mistreatment of our ancestors. Hell, my wifes G-G-G-G-x-grandfather was full-blooded Cherokee and fought on the Union side of the civil war. He injured his leg to the bone by hauling a cannon around the midwest during the civil war…supporting the country that had taken his people’s land! The cannon was hitched to his horse and the tongue of the cannon wore his leg to the bone. He walked on crutches for the next decade then died from a leg infection. He applied year after year for injury benefits due him and they did not arrive until 10 years after he died, when his wife was on her deathbed. Makes me very angry.

But I’m not asking for any money.

Also what isn’t coming out in the news: It was a black Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an unarmed white woman in an alley in 2017. How many stores burned when that happened?

And on top of that, the current Chief of Police in Minneapolis is black. Do you think he’d let racism run rampant in his department?

If anything, perhaps the Minneapolis PD has a tough guy problem as scaredy has been eluding to, not racism. I think that overall PDs are good, but there certainly can be a bad organization or two out there. Evidence is pointing in that direction in Minneapolis.

[outtamojo]

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ricky-ellsworth-black-cop/

[svelte]

[quote=outtamojo]https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ricky-ellsworth-black-cop/[/quote]

Did you read more than a couple of paragraphs down in that link?

It verifies exactly what I said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Justine_Damond

[outtamojo]

Yeah, cops went to jail.

[svelte]

[quote=outtamojo]Yeah, cops went to jail.[/quote]

They most certainly do.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/02/us/amber-guyger-trial-sentencing/index.html

[outtamojo]

Yeah that balances the scale.

[svelte]

[quote=outtamojo]Yeah that balances the scale.[/quote]

You’re all about fair play aren’t you? You’ve attempted to tilt the scale at every opportunity.

Done.

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