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I think the numbers tell a convincing story.

The median net worth of Americans in 2019 was $121,760.

In 2019, the median net worth of white Americans was $189,100.

The median net worth of Black Americans was $24,100

I forget how to link on hn but it's from the motley fool.

>>nomat+(OP)
You can simply paste the link into your comment.

>>nomat+(OP)
Yes, that is true (I don't know about the exact numbers, but there's no question there's a difference.)

Asian Americans are even better off, but why should they have to pay for reparations? Their ancestors weren't involved in slavery in the US.

Hispanic Americans are also pretty poor (more so than African-Americas if memory serves), but they weren't disadvantaged by slavery, should they have to chip in for reparations?

Southerners were clearly disadvantaged by fighting and losing the civil war, does the North owe them anything?

What about the survivors and next of kin of the soldiers that put it all on the line for their country in Iraq and Afghanistan only to find out the government lied to them and everyone else about why they were there?

Everybody could find a grievance if they look hard enough. Which ones do we try to address?

>>slashd+h5
I agree exactly. And what about people who’s families moved here in the last 140 years. They surely didn’t own slaves.

And who even gets reparations? If someone’s great great great grandmother was a black slave but every other relative was white, does this person get reparations?

>>slashd+h5
Honestly, who gives a shit? We are a society, not a bunch of White people and Asian people and Black people and Hispanic people. A functioning society would work to fix those numbers, because it's absolutely a problem that needs to be fixed, not a punishment for being a member of a "successful" ethnicity.

>>tadfis+qa
I agree, work on creating a more equal society, with better opportunities for all, instead of playing the game of who's the bigger victim. Because we can all play the victim card, including me and you, and it's just not productive or beneficial to anyone.