Harvard????

And look at what's happening to appease you people, so many of you have no business graduating and they're just passing you anyway. City jobs are lowering their standards, because there's not enough of you working these jobs.

You think that's beneficial?

Not getting the jab means you're a low IQ antj-vaxer??? We're back to that again???

There's nothing wrong with the schools, it's the students that go to these schools that are the problem, and businesses??? The ones you loot and burn down??? As for Healthcare, stop being the most unhealthy, obese demographic in the country first.

Klan buzzwords everywhere. Yikes

Not getting the jab: fine

pushing vax conspiracy theories and saying anyone that dies under age 65 was because of the vax: miscers

Right, they got rid of AP classes, which counted as college credit, because it wasn't "fair."

I remember high school seniors dying in class all the time back in the 90s.......

[b] The IRS could put a donation box on your tax forms and then you could post how much you want to give as reparations and then people like OP could donate 25% of their take home to reparations

The same should apply to foreign aid. 0% of taxpayers money should go abroad. It should be a voluntary decision if people want to donate to Ukraine or elsewhere

Lol. Bigballsmcgee has gone from voting trump to being an al sharpton wannabe. Calling everyone in this thread klan members, calling any black against it an uncle Tom, and not caring about stats in every debate on police racial stuff. Guess he found his meaning in life

He's an idiot, and everything he says on this topic is 100% "feels" yet he's in here calling others low IQ.

Assuming that it really happened, and assuming you really do have this old newspaper clip that we both know you're never going to post - so what? You think you're owed reparations because of it? Gtfo.

If YOU personally haven't suffered because of it, then YOU don't get to demand reparations for anything you simpleton lol.

And just LOL at calling everybody "Klancel" for disagreeing with you.. Surely that'll get everybody to take you seriously... surely.

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Maybe the WOKE crusher Carl could throw some money his way.

It's also some Z4Z4 ****, Maestro is what? In his 30s? And his "Grandparents," owned a business in the 40s? How old were they? In their teens? How did his grandfather avoid the draft?

And the KKK already hit a massive decline in the 20s, and were pretty insignificant in Louisiana, especially in the 40s.

And not only does the timeframe not add up, but the overall point of this discussion is.....Meanwhile.... in the 1940's, deep south Louisiana...His grandparents had a highly lucrative grocery store!

- United States government held back an entire racial class of people on purpose!

- But a highly lucrative grocery store... in the 40's. In racist deep south Louisiana.

Makes sense.

How is it ridiculous logic? YOUR "logic" is ridiculous. "Give me money for something you didn't do, which never harmed me". How the hell does that make sense?

Slavery in the US ended 158 years ago. There is nobody alive today who was directly, or even indirectly, affected by it.

And after 5 pages, OP is still a jogger wanting gubbermint gibs because muh race.

The ONLY reason?

As if to say you couldn't move to and live somewhere else if you wanted? And just Boo Hoo at "Muh generational wealth." Make your own and stop whining about it for fux sake.

Affirmative action is a non-factor in white collar careers. Most of the people doing hiring at higher levels are conservatives who are likely to double down and fight against it.

I think blacks have a lot of opportunities and act like victims too much but who doesn't these days? Seriously, we're seeing whites complain about the most minor inconveniences these days. They'd be doing the same if they were slaves or discriminated against for years. The thing is miscers refuse to act like slavery and the ensuing 100 years just weren't as bad as they say when it was horrendous. And this was back when blacks wore suits and had decorum, yet hate filled whites still made their lives miserable. People will say that blacks haven't progressed since the CRA but up until the 80s it was still business as usual concerning opportunities for advancement. Combine that with unskilled labor leaving the city and it contributed to current day haram. All I'm saying is that both parties have faltered along the way but st**frant misc acts like whites are magically absolved from their crimes. It's pretty ****ed up to judge people based on their skin color and that's what the US was like until relatively recently. The black community had a lot of chit to sort out but white people did contribute. I think blacks unfortunately gave up on fighting for a better life and have resorted to just asking for handouts. But like I said earlier suburban white kids complain, Hispanics complain, rich people complain, blacks complain etc. Really the only people who don't complain are Asians so props to them for not conforming to a bitchmade society. Blacks just have more ammo since they've been around forever.

It's too late for reparations but I think if we had done it earlier, before the circumstances that contributed to black culture changing, it would've actually worked. People bring up transgressions against other minorities but outside of Indians, a lot of blacks were born here as Americans. Not saying it should entitle us to anything but America dun goofd by not fixing the problem years earlier...like right after slavery. Overall current society is the fault of white guys who tried to hold on to power indefinitely, but ended up caving in to women and trannies at the last second. I think a lot of miscers are just mad about how they're race is going out sad, despite controlling the country for years. Should've put your foot down and controlled your women and *******s years ago. So many white guys let their wives or daughters flirt with other guys and carry on like absolute whores. Minorities disown weird chit like trannies or being gay, whites (mainly white women) embrace it and support it. Everything going on is a direct result of massive failures in leadership.

"massive decline" doesn't mean they ceased to exist

but if you really want a line by line chronology of events here it is;

Grand parents were born in 1925 and 1923 (yes they're both long passed). They were in their 20's when they had the shop in the 1940s which was in middle of nowhere Houma Louisiana. They weren't allowed in to the regular corner store for "complexion" reasons, so my grandfather built his own store that all the colored folk could go to instead of having to travel hours away to Morgan City or even New Orleans every time they wanted to go shopping. Word got out that they had good produce (mostly food grown from their back yard) so even white folks started shopping at their grocery store instead of the store meant for whites (which meant lost business for the whites only store).

Long story short, they're coming home from church one evening and there's a cross in the yard and the store on fire. They leave the State and only a couple months after being in California my Grandfather is drafted. Luckily it was the tail end of the war, he was in the middle of Basic when the war ended. Came back home tried to build another business that never quite made it off the ground. He gave up on the grocery store business and just went into construction, then they had my dad in 1958 and I was born in 1987.

Fact of the matter is, i'm not nearly as triggered about this as you guys are. I've already said there's no way reparations are going to happen, and i'm doing just fine financially so i'm not in desperate need of any lump sum of money. Its just a bit of Devils Advocate instead of hearing the same old talking-points of; wElFaRe iS rEpArAtIoNs.


Little side note, even slave owners received reparations for the loss of their slaves when slavery ended, but noones wants to talk about that.

What made it a highly lucrative "grocery store?"

And his Grandparents owned it in the 40s, and by the timeframe they had to have maybe owned it in their early 20s? Maybe when they were both 18?

Then it was burnt down by the all powerful, mighty KKK, and they fled the state with nothing but the clothes on their backs and started over......

Yeah, I can move somewhere else, but I've got familial obligations (and ALL of my family is here). They're getting older so there's no point in moving somewhere else when they're going to need my constant assistance in another 10-15 years. I'm not putting them in a nursing home. I've worked in them and know what goes on in even the most luxurious of centers.

That's a shame...Africans who come here are usually pretty stand-up people, at least the first generation.

Riiiight white folks were like, "Hey Jethro, you hear about this colored grocery store in the colored part of town, the owner grows his own fruit and vegetables, let's go check it out!!!"

Black people were like, "Hey, now we don't have to drive" hours" to go get our groceries no mo."

You plan on being their 24/7 caretaker?

Love when you people claim what you're gonna do, until it eventually happens.

not 24/7. I've got a brother and a sister and they plan to help as well, but I'll probably do the brunt of the work since i'm the only one that doesn't plan on having kids.

I actually love my parents so it won't be a burden to me.

Yeah, we'll see what your mental state is like if they suffer from Dementia.....

yeah, my grandmother on my moms side had dementia before she passed away. My parents took care of her but they also hired At Home Nursing Care to come in a couple times per week just to get her moving with physical rehab help with the bathing and whatnot. I'll probably do the same thing when/if it gets to that point.

It just donned on me that every post you make about me is antagonistic and combative. Look, i'm sorry your job only forces you to see the worse in people, but whatever you think I am, i'm not that person.

A Louisiana town so racist in the 1940's that white people shopped at the black owned grocery store - thus making it highly lucrative!A discussion about why black people are owed reparations and you're the one who brought this story up, and how you missed out on your generational wealth bro. Sound pretty triggered actually.

If we're going to do grandparents, my grandparents fled Spain, with only what they could carry, because they were going to be executed due to the civil war (more people were executed than died in the fighting).

Do I deserve reparations from Spain?

My wife's parents were kicked out of Uganda due to one of them being asian.

Do my wife's parents,who are still alive, deserve reparations from Uganda?