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In reply to the discussion: Are you in favor of reparations to African Americans? [View all]Afromania
(2,782 posts)Just leaving us alone, which amounts to letting us play on a level playing field, would more than be enough. It's absolutely the cheapest thing that could be done and would yield all sorts of benefits for all involved. Wouldn't it be nice if all of the time they dedicate to hating me were put to use making their corners of the world better places? Imagine if they didn't vote to gut all sorts of social services because a brown person might use it? Or where they championed education for all rather than trying to destroy it because brown people go to school. A world where they didn't vote for people who use their bigotry as a wedge to let those same politicians steal from them, take their jobs, leave their kids uneducated and superstitious and destroy their environments with whatever foul things the people they are beholden to want. I could do a better job of explaining this and go on and on with this point and that but they know all of this already and refuse to even try.
So, again, just leave us alone. It's all the reparations we need.