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Originally posted by KnowledgeEternal
Personally, I am against giving every African American a check for X amount of money; but I feel that saying their claims are unsubstantiated is ridiculous.
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I believe you misunderstood what I said. For example, I have a lot of things in my history for which I am angry about, and I have
every right to my anger/pain/sadness, etc. But that's what makes it history; it didn't happen directly to me. I never said their feeling and their opinions are ridiculous, just that
in my opinion people who look for personal gain under the guise of something else are out for themselves. (***This is not just related to slavery repartions, this is how I feel in general***). If the majority of people that were interested in reparations said: "it would be nice to have reparations for slavery memorials," "to give to the NAACP," "...to the UNCF," or "...for research into diseases that are more prevelent in African Americans" etc, I think more people wouldn't be as against it. And yes, I'm sure there are people that do it for such reasons, but there will always a group of people that say it for personal gain and those are the people that make others feel as though the claims - not the feelings, but the claims - are not legitimate.
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