> What happened to their great-great-grandfather is irrelevant. Incorrect. Consider: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparati

> What happened to their great-great-grandfather is irrelevant. Incorrect. Consider: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-cas... > Crime, like racism, isn't limited to just one race. I never implied otherwise. Yes, you did when you said replace all people with white people and crime rate craters. Perhaps unintentionally, this plays both sides of the fence. > And in ever single case, it is the individual's choice to commit crime. Indeed. White collar crime rarely goes punished, however. And some crimes are made to target groups -- consider Nixon's to the present's war on drugs, which implicitly targets minorities. If a father is incarcerated for minor marijuana use for years, and the CEO down the street who embezzled gets months at Club Fed, they both "serve their time" however injust it may be implemented but the lost time with their children is irrecoverable -- and that is why it matters what happened to your great- great- grandpa, is society pushed them into the poverty cycle and reinforced it with Jim Crow to current inequitable laws.