[samtheman]

I don't "want to discuss reparations". I want to REFUTE it. Certain segments of the African American population keep bringing it up. I think it's important that we always knock it right back down. I don't really think "reparations" is going anywhere. Although I hear there is an attempt to broaden the support-base by including Mexican Americans as "victims of colonization" and Asian Americans for some othe reason (forget the details).

The bottom line is: if you're of European decent (even if your great grandpa was a soldier in the Union Army), you gotta pay!

[muawiyah]

The Mexican-American thing involved folks who happened to be US citizens who were literally taken to the Mexican border and kicked out of the country. Their abductors then seized their property.

The California legislature was all set to pass a law to recompensate these people until they realized that they would end up having to give back most of Los Angeles county to the decendants of the Japanese-Americans who used to own it before it was taken in similar manner.

[Rytwyng]

The bottom line is: if you're of European decent (even if your great grandpa was a soldier in the Union Army), you gotta pay!

As the great-great-grandson of a Union vet, I find the very idea of reparations insulting.