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Sounds great. Who pays and who collects? Most whites cam here after the Civil War while most blacks are 50% white and are decendants of slave owners. So I guess everyone could take a DNA test but it would end up with mixed race people paying the all African heritage people.
Everybody over 18 collects who is not making more than the basic minimum , Everybody gets health care.
Reduce /Phase out a lot of other programs over a generation or too. Replace or partially replace social security with basic minimum etc.
$400k college loans to help the underprivileged , but really either enslave them or never get paid back die like the dinosaurs.
Why should I pay for reparations when I wasn't alive and my family immigrated to the US after the Civil War?
Reparations are idiotic on there face (on so many levels) and would only lead to more asks and solve nothing.
If you can't see it as fair then , because it would be productive. My family also never contributed to killing Native Americans or slavery. However, would there have been riots last night if there was universal basic income that the people with nothing to lose could lose? Low capabaility unwed mothers with deadbeat dads? Other social problems potentially minimized.
It's not about specific individuals or about checks being paid to people's banks.
It's about creating a system and a community where we can all benefit economically.
Universal healthcare, universal income, universal education is in the name. We all pay in what we can and we all take out what we need. No DNA tests, no pencil tests, no one-drop rules.
Yep that's right, and as an added bonus we get to do reparations for Slavery. Much better model than the " no man in the house rule" or any of those horrible social programs.
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Already in place. African Americans already receive a disproportionate amount of welfare. They are also give significant inroads to schools, jobs, scholarships, and posts through affirmative action. Giving a race of people just because of their race makes no sense. Look at section 8 housing 3 years after being brand new. Those residents do not take care of it. Just giving things away does a genuine disservice. I came here with mother and father from South Korea with only a gym bag of belongings (for our entire family), if that has any bearing on this discussion.
*sorry for the grammar mistakes
Universalism is not welfare and by definition does not single out a race.
Those that have indirectly benefitted from slavery or other forms of oppression whatever their ancestry contribute but also take out when needed as equals.
Those that continue to be affected by slavery or oppression whatever their ancestry take out but also contribute when able as equals.
If there are no effects of slavery today as some like to pretend, then Americans of Afro or Euro ancestry will contribute and receive equally.
Lataf, plenty or asians got a lot of free money to go to college. I don't know about Koreans but vietnamese for sure. Now other groups off immigrants get a lot of help. It's called nation building.
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