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But people in the Black bucket are way behind economically because people in the White bucket have been stealing from them for 100s of years, and the people in
by Miner49er 7y ago
But people in the Black bucket are way behind economically because people in the White bucket have been stealing from them for 100s of years, and the people in the White bucket created the buckets in the first place to do the stealing.
So how do you make that right without continuing to use the buckets? The only way is to either completely dismantle Capitalism, and start over with it or something else again from scratch were everyone starts on even ground again, and it never mattered what bucket people were in. The simpler option is to use the buckets and say that people in the Black bucket get special benefits at the cost of people in the White bucket to right the wrong that happened, and this needs to continue until they're close to even again.
It's like if a friend steals money from you. The only way you're likely ever going to fix that friendship is if the friend at the very least gives the money back and apologizes. Pretending like it never happened isn't going to work.
An additional thing is that you still have people using the buckets for their benefit, or just because they don't know better. In order to counteract the actions of those people, and recognize who's hurt by them, you have to also use the idea of the "buckets".
- AdrianB1 7y ago"So how do you make that right without continuing to use the buckets? " 2 wrongs don't make it right.
- Miner49er 7y agoHow is paying someone back for a crime a wrong?
- AdrianB1 7y agoWho are you paying back to? The person who did the crime or some other people based on similarities with the criminal? How about putting on the death row everyone in the neighborhood of a murderer? This is your logic.
- Miner49er 7y agoI'm saying that white people have inherited a lot of wealth at the cost of black people. Wealth statistics clearly show this. The average black family is 10x poorer then the average white family. The stealing was done through Jim Crow, slavery, red lining, etc. If you inherit money that your parents stole, that money is taken away from you by the police and given back to the person it was stolen from. In this case, white people's ancestors stole from black people, and therefore, white people should take responsibility for that and pay back black people since they are still benefiting from that theft at the cost of black people today who would have otherwise inherited the stolen wealth.
- AdrianB1 7y ago"White people" is a vast generalization, it includes people that came in US much later than the history you are talking about. How can you even consider punishing them for something they did not do, just because they are the same race as the people that did something bad a long time ago? This is racism in the purest form.
- Miner49er 7y agoMost (all?) of Europe benefited from colonialism and slavery, it wasn't just America doing it.
- yucca_plant 7y agoArab slavers took many more African slaves than the Europeans every did. How much do they have to repay?
- southphillyman 7y agoThey immigrated to a country built on the free labor of blacks correct? Once here they were given preferential treatment in terms of unionization and local government correct? The narrative that later immigrants didn't benefit from or engage in Jim Crow is kind of ludicrous.
- 7y ago
- zhugeIiang 7y agoSo... whites steal from black bucket, so that makes it ok for the black bucket to steal from the Asian bucket?