In a way, I’m hoping that the success in California, because I don’t live there, will open the door for that infamous slippery slope they are creating for this situation.
If I’m not completely ignorant, and there are some that say I am, because of a nationality or skin color recognition, people had things taken away from their ancestors wrongly. History won’t bear that as it is current history that is deciding it like a Monday morning quarterback. But that door it opens is going to be huge.
By the definition of the process I mentioned above, there are a number of “groups” that were treated the same by the removal of them as human status: Irish, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, American Indian...the US has done the same thing to all of them in our history. And the only difference is that they didn’t get a boat ride.
So where does it stop? Especially since the last slave was freed by law almost 160 years ago. So, it isn’t about slavery for the current people. It’s about lawlessness. Isn’t it about time the US admits why it is happening now and for the real reasons? Not as long as there is a chance at votes and financial support.
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“How can we let bygones be bygones when the knee of white supremacy is still on the necks of Black Americans, choking the very life from us?” — Maureen Simmons.”
The only knee on your neck is your stinking hip-hop, baby daddy, gang banging culture. I will do whatever it takes to keep that bs away from where I live. If that feels like a knee on your neck, too bad. I am completely out of F’s to give.
Maybe some of the reparations money could come from the African countries who sold the slaves in the first place? Is the US still giving foreign aid to these countries?