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   Oasus Plainsview :verified: (itsoasus@pawb.fun)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 07:44:17 JST Oasus Plainsview :verified:

   Yes. Black Americans DO deserve reparations. Yes, still to this day. And with every new generation that passes, the amount of reparations continues to compound.

   If reparations are good enough for former slave owners, they're good enough for former slaves, or in this case, their descendants.

   And that's not even the most recent example of why reparations are deserved.

   For more on that, you need to know that in 1934, the Federal Government passed a law to help "provide housing".

   In reality, it was a state-sponsored system of segregation.

   Learn more here: https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america

   And if you don't want to READ about it, then @adamconover covered this in one of his episodes of Adam Ruins Everything.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETR9qrVS17g

   And I feel the need to get ahead of one particular talking point:

   Because this isn't about giving people special privileges.

   This is about ensuring everyone ACTUALLY has the same rights.

   To give everyone a fighting chance to live.

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   Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 05:09:40 JST Nathan Schneider

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   @fgregg I think it is about having a balanced topology of options.

   In many cases, orgs would be operating reasonably accountably to us, and we can mostly ignore them. Highly interested members engage, but most others don't. But the option is always there, in the case of crisis, for more members to exercise their rights.

   To exercise those rights well, it helps to be practicing democracy more actively elsewhere.