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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.