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I have addressed it over and over again.I am not sure I understand how it fits in with the equal protection clause and thus far few are addressing that specifically.
The reason it is a false analogy, is because, the Japanese citizens that were interned, regardless of their position in society, rich or poor, educated or not, all suffered the same harm.
Likewise, of the native American nations, all individuals in those classes, all suffered the same harms when treaties were broken and economic harms were accrued to individuals in those classes.
OTH, in regards to folks in a class action restorative justice argument, the reason it violates the equal protection claus, I specifically remember, many friends, when I went to university, in my life before I suffered my medical problems, who were advantaged in higher education over me, simply because of the color of their skin.
They had advantages in applying to university, they had advantages in applying to the same job I had, and advanced quicker in the work place, simply due to their ethnicity.
. . . it is now, patently ABSURD, to try to make the argument, that all black folks in the nation now deserve payments from the state, while folks of other ethnicities, all ethnicities, who were not even here, and had nothing to do with slavery or Jim Crow, should pick of the tab for such payments.
The only thing this will do, is enrich the professional class of upper class black Americans, be wasted on the lower class Americans on alcohol, drugs and frivolous purchases, and cause more friction between all ethnicities.
It will do absolutely NOTHING to solve the economic disparities between the black community and other ethnic communities.
I have had enough experience with the poor, middle class, and upper class, to know, the only path to prosperity is education and self-discipline. It is NOT and never has been, hand-outs.
It is the very destruction of the cultural heritage by their kidnapping from Africa, and lack of community knowledge. . an amnesia as a people, and dependence on the state, which is the cause of this problem. African immigrants? Not refugees, but actual immigrants? They don't have a disparate economic disadvantage compared to white or other ethnicities. From what I have often gathered, a lot of the more conservative ones, don't even particularly like American black culture, due to this cultural amnesia phenomenon.
". . . And while relatively lower levels of development in Africa lead Americans to assume that African immigrants are less well-educated, "Data from the ACS shows that African-born immigrants aged 25 and over possess high levels of education comparable to, if not better than, the average American population."

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I was once having a discussion with one of my black friends, and we were comparing notes about our family histories, stored knowledge. . . all the things he would continually tell me, "wow, I wish I my mom had taught me this. . or jeese, I wish my grampa had taught me that, etc."
What white privilege really is? Is cultural symmetry, and "secret knowledge," if you will, silly things, about how anglo-American culture unofficially really works. . . like your family knowing what phonics is, as opposed to the "see and say," method of reading. . . etc.
But throwing money at individuals, based on some statistics, in violation of the constitution, with some abstract notion it will get results, (with no actual evidence?)
It is, I admit, an intractable problem, but throwing money at?
And more state dependence? Will more than likely, just make the problems worse in the end, and build even more resentment.
. . . but hell, maybe that is what the folks in charge really want? What the hell do I know?
