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I don't owe reparations to people who never experienced slavery

No one said you did.

The federal government egregiously failed to protect a whole race of people from the most unconscionable wrongs, and in fact condoned those wrongs, in contradiction to its founding principle.

It would seem fair for people who suffer the effects of such injustice to receive some form of restitution. American Japanese did under Reagan. American Indians have received some in the form of tax breaks and land on reservations (far from ideal conditions, I might add).

If I do a Google search for "Gelato", am I likely to find posts supporting reparations dating back before Keyes came up with his idea, or not?

I'd never heard of a fair and feasible form of "reparations" until now. All other plans have been proposed by liberals and would never work.

Now I'm learning of Walter Williams' conservative idea. I think that is possibly a good one, too.

Since reparations is so offensive to you, does it lessen your opinion of Ronald Reagan knowing what he did?

Friend do not expect conservatives to have anymore feeling for black people than liberals. Do not expect conservative people to understand any part of black history and slavery as most have had enough thrown at them by self serving liberals. The history of this country has been such that the only way the black man will ever make it is on his own is without anyone's help. This would be another excuse for a white man to point at a black man and say 'you received that car or house because you are black' as opposed to hard work.

Excuse me - I thought we cleared up the issue of American Indians, since an American Indian came on the thread and explained to you that you're wrong. Are you still insisting you know more about the issue than he does?

Please.

And don't you understand the difference between reparations paid to Japanese-Americans in the Reagan era (Germans and Italians interned received none, incidentally) and black Americans in 2004? Please tell me I don't have to explain that to you.

The federal government egregiously failed to protect a whole race of people from the most unconscionable wrongs, and in fact condoned those wrongs, in contradiction to its founding principle.

I'd say that blacks got off easy - they were only enslaved. Also, they had people who actually went to war for them in order to stop the enslavement. Indians, on the other hand, were the targets of a deliberate genocide. No one went to war for US.

I'd say it's about damn time to just stop the whining and crying about past wrongs and start worrying about the wrongs of today.

But then, I've always been silly that way.