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> This is gross. My mother was arrested for going into a whites-only Pizza Hut as a child.
Are you talking here about reparations for slavery or reparations for much more recent events (segregation, Jim Crow, etc)?
I think it is easier to make the case that people deserve some compensation for wrongs done in living memory, than for wrongs done over 150 years ago.
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> This is gross. My mother was arrested for going into a whites-only Pizza Hut as a child.
Are you talking here about reparations for slavery or reparations for much more recent events (segregation, Jim Crow, etc)?
I think it is easier to make the case that people deserve some compensation for wrongs done in living memory, than for wrongs done over 150 years ago.