Originally posted by seanD
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I'm not suggesting that there be a dollar-for-dollar payout. I'm just saying that if you read the history, the state was actively guilty of actions that negatively and intentionally impacted black people, and the effect today is that black people on the whole are poorer than white people, and the reason for that is primarily, above everything else, that the state ensured their ancestors weren't as wealthy as white people and perpetuated their poverty.
Obviously, if the state were to totally cease any action that negatively impacted black people, then we could expect, eventually, over the generations, the situation to even itself out. But why wait 10 generations or so to have a fair and equal society? Why not have it now? Why shouldn't the state act now to fix what the state broke previously? The state did wrong. It should own up to that, it should face some sort of consequence and pay some sort of price, and perform some sort of acts to address the situation positively. Promising to cease to do additional harm to the victims doesn't really cut it, and isn't really justice, and we wouldn't tolerate for any other criminal, so why should we think the state should be allowed to get away with that?
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