42. "I would avoid the issue entirely if I were a politician, no winning stan..." In response to In response to 0 Tue Mar-05-19 07:35 PM by ConcreteCharlie
If you come out for it, you alienate some people (fuck yes, even on the left), if you come out for it, you get bogged down in specifics and probably alienate some allies who are for it. Above all, it's not an issue that's going to be high on most voters' priority list, even black voters in many cases.
As a citizen, I feel like it would be really, really tough to implement but I am open to it in the form of communal wealth and investment. We are 150 years removed from slavery and figuring out who was a victim, who's black and how much to give them are all impossibly complicated questions. To do it in a one-for-one way would be difficult to trace and extremely costly to compensate in a fair or even meaningful way (generational wealth over that amount of time could be a lot of money for a lot of people). Instead I think there has to be a means of making facilities and opportunity available on a broad level to black communities, if we want to dub that reparations, so be it.
And you will know MY JACKET IS GOLD when I lay my vengeance upon thee.