1/ The difference between race-based policies and reparations Is that reparations contain an inherent mea culpa. They’re recognition of a wrong that was done, a debt that is owed and the willingness on the part of a people to pay it.
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2/ Germany has paid $89 billion in reparations to Jewish organizations. It doesn’t mean that the Holocaust didn’t happen, but it has gone far toward establishing emotional and psychological reconciliation between Germany and the Jews of Europe.

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3/ Almost 250 yrs of slavery followed by almost 100 more yrs of institutionalized violence against Black people in the American South. If you’ve been kicking someone to the ground for almost 350 years, you owe more than to stop kicking; you owe it to them to help them get back up
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4/ I don’t think the average American is a racist but rather is woefully undereducated about the history of race in the US. I saw over & over, in the whitest states, how once people heard a thumbnail sketch of our racial history from 1619 to today, they applauded #ReparationsNow.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @helencaddes
Should the left unite with neofascists to force the Squad to do ... something?
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The US paid out too
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There are many Jews who think it has not gone far enough. And that nothing can come even close to making up for it. That shouldn’t stop reparations from happening here, but I do not think reconciliation is possible.
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I’m Jewish like you. When did circumcision change form snipping a tiny piece if the tip to removing the entire foreskin?!!!!! ....
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The US has paid out countless billions in reparations in the form of government handouts.
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