Comments by "Craxin01" (@Craxin01) on "Are Reparations for Black Americans a Self-Sabotage?" video.

  1. If we're talking about investing is poorer communities as reparations, that's good. It'll effect more black communities than white, but the white communities won't be left out, there'll be significantly less pushback. If we're talking about the US government cutting every black person a check, that's a VERY bad idea. One, it's genuinely racist, favoring one group over another only based on skin color. Two, it's an attempt to punish white people today for crimes they had no part in. I can honestly say that there were slave owners in my ancestry. However, that ended over 150 years ago. My grandmother's grandfather was born AFTER the repeal of slavery. This isn't about settling a debt, this is about asking someone to pay for the crimes of another, and that's extremely immoral. I'd almost be willing to serve these reparations if it meant that forevermore the black community would be forbidden from playing the race card, drudging up slavery, demanding special treatment, or complaining about their current lot in life. But we all know that just wouldn't be the case. We'd have given the mouse a cookie, and they would begin demanding a glass of milk. Furthermore, this isn't all black people demanding reparations, it's primarily the poor blacks demanding this. The well off middle class and wealthy don't care about this. They got their slice of the pie, so they aren't envying everyone else's.
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