Black People Who Oppose Reparations

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I was on Facebook earlier talking with this dude I know and this dude sent me a screenshot from some friend of his who tagged him a post which was one of those MoveOn.org petitions. This petition was titled REPARATIONS FOR BLACKS IN AMERICA. So I asked my friend who this dude was because I assumed he thought I knew the guy and my friend said he’s a friend of his, but he’s not about to sign that petition because he believes that black people are always looking for some kind of handout. And when he said that, our whole conversation damn near began to spiral out of control to the point where I’m even more convinced now than ever that black people are just all the way screwed up from every direction imaginable.

I told this dude that I’m in favor of reparations and I don’t see reparations as a handout simply because every other group of people who are not American descendants of slaves (DOS) have had some form of a reparation to a degree. Native Americans have been given land which is damn near sovereign territory in this country in addition to where a lot of them can go to college for free if they are just one quarter of Native American. Now I’m not about to venture down the whole discussion of the Dawes Roll where it is believed that a bunch of white people were pretending to be Native American in order to get some of those Native American reparation benefits, but I’m just highlighting how Native Americans have been given some form of reparations. Then you got the Japanese who were given some form of reparations where in 1988 President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act to compensate more than 100 thousand Japanese descendants who were incarcerated in interment camps during World War 2. In case you didn’t know, that piece of legistlation paid out $20k in compensation to each surviving victim. Then you have the Jewish people who essentially got an entire country in addition to the US state department paying something like $11M to World War 2 prisoners who survived the Holocaust who just happened to be currently living in the US. Add into the mix, I just read an article recently to where this article is talking about how illegals who crossed the border should get some form of reparations. It’s unbelievable who all is either getting reparations or putting up an argument for reparations and nobody is telling these people that they don’t deserve some form of reparations. But when it comes to an American DOS, we’re told constantly that we need to stop crying and complaining and pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. Even black Americans who are American DOS say this, like my friend. It’s unbelievable.

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