| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (white rice,)
Almost every immigrant group has been oppressed in some form or another. The logistics of handing out a "tax cut" to black people is insane let alone that it doesn't solve shit and will explode the powder keg of racial tensions already in the US.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Almost every immigrant group? Well, consider this: the 'immigrant group' in question involved involuntary immigration: kidnapping and being pressed into slavery. That slavery was then used to build a nation by making productive land stolen from Indians. Much of the wealth of this society was originally built on the backs of slaves forced to work on land stolen from Indians. The 'oppression' that can be compared to what immigrants underwent, although such comparison shows it to have been much worse than what was experienced by any immigrants, was the transformed oppression following the end of slavery (and the stealing of the continent). Reparations are the LEAST that this society owes to descendants of slaves and to American Indians alike. |