No, asking for clarification to understand isn’t ignorant at all. Like Thelma said, it a massively complicated subject, but we gotta start somewhere at some point. Lol!BobCobbMagob wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:51 pmOk, so , just tell me if I'm being ignorant about something here because I'm willing to see that if I am,SouthernIslander wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 5:58 pmOh shit, that is a typo. LOL!!!! I was cooking, sorry. I meant that slavery DOESN'T affect me more than Black people living outside of the south. Northern slave descendants just had access to certain rights before we did down south, but the impact from slavery is much too generational for me to agree with location.BobCobbMagob wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 4:13 pm
Exactly though… slavery affects the dependents of those who were in slave states much differently than those from states where slavery didn’t exist.
Of course there are plenty of other people that have had racism impact their lives, but reparations are to help alleviate the damage that slavery did, not the damage from every kind of racism.
Thats like me saying a Black family in NY doesn't deserve the same amount of reparations as mine because slavery didn't affect them as much. That doesn't even sound right.
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But I would completely think that the descended who have ancestral ties to the south would be more impacted.
A lot of slave descendants have ancestral ties to the south, Black people in other areas are just further removed from the direct environment but the impact is still there.
I’m not gonna lie and say growing up in Mississippi wasn’t a bitch because the aftermath of slavery is more physically visible in certain parts. But again, not to the point that I feel like it justifies awarding less benefits to Black people who live in other areas.
Percentage seems more fair to me.