[Aquinasfan]

Conservatives believe in individual responsiblity, not collective guilt.

Reparations doesn't necessarily represent collective guilt. As unspun mentioned above, consider our relationship to the American indians. We, as a society, have consigned them to lives of misery by our de facto policy of segregation. A debate regarding our government's treatment of the American indians is worth having.

[Texas Federalist]

As unspun mentioned above, consider our relationship to the American indians. We, as a society, have consigned them to lives of misery by our de facto policy of segregation. A debate regarding our government's treatment of the American indians is worth having.

So it's settled. We give the slave descendants casinos.

[Junior_G]

As unspun mentioned above, consider our relationship to the American indians. We, as a society, have consigned them to lives of misery by our de facto policy of segregation. A debate regarding our government's treatment of the American indians is worth having.

I wasn't aware that the US Government actually forced them to live on those squalid reservations.

[sinkspur]

As unspun mentioned above, consider our relationship to the American indians. We, as a society, have consigned them to lives of misery by our de facto policy of segregation. A debate regarding our government's treatment of the American indians is worth having.

Why, Aquinas! You've become a liberal Democrat!

There's no group presenting a grievance that you're not willing to open your wallet for.

Do it as charity. Please. Don't propose it as government policy.

[unspun]

Reparations doesn't necessarily represent collective guilt. As unspun mentioned above, consider our relationship to the American indians. We, as a society, have consigned them to lives of misery by our de facto policy of segregation. A debate regarding our government's treatment of the American indians is worth having.

Well put.