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Originally posted by Communion
You're still denying the factual economic turmoil felt by slavery today.
Jesus.
The literal infrastructure of the US from the prison system to the banking system and the way wealth is distributed finds root in the skeleton of slavery.
Slavery isn't even in the most recent thing don to black people by the US government. The CIA you liberals are now blindly trusting re: Russia was funneling crack into black neighborhoods just this ****ing century.
No one actually thinks reparations will happen, but to deny the active way the US on a government level has worked to keep black people marginalized and STILL ARE takes some ****ing level of dissonance. Black neighborhoods' water is being literally poisoned with lead so counties can save a few bucks and then nothing is done to help them despite the generations of sickness, poverty and learning disabilities about to follow them. Open your eyes.
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The crack epidemic happened more than 100 years after slavery was already over. Latinos are also impoverished in America but they've never experienced slavery here. Stop trying to link the two together.
Yes, there is a racial hierarchy here but there is one in many parts of the world where slavery doesn't exist. Let's not forget that classism is far more severe in countries full of people of color. Black neighborhoods may be getting murky waters here but poor neighborhoods in Rwanda don't even get food or AIDS medicine from their governments.
If there's one way to pay back the slaves, then it's helping the slaves that are around today. Paying people who've never experienced slavery yet want to get a free ride out of it is not the answer.
PS: Some of my female ancestors were black slaves and it doesn't affect me at all now.