Say a neighborhood has over 20 percent black people in it. Everyone in the neighborhood gets 10 grand. Don't have to worry about whites and Asians that way. Would have to figure a system to decide who is black. But the Confederates did it so I think we can.
The Confederates were in the wrong. That's why we are glad that their way of thinking was defeated and discredited.
Our ideal is that all people are created with equal rights (and responsibilities) before the law. We can't even get close to reaching that ideal when we qualify people by their percentage of ancestry from this that or the other continent, even for what we think are good purposes.
I'd be for some sort of reparations for people whose parents, grandparents, whatever were unable to buy houses or in any other way denied opportunities to prosper due to government policies. But not "black people" in general, because that would include people like Barack Obama who have not suffered from any government policies that discriminated against African Americans.
Every government program has unintended consequences. Sometimes the unintended consequences are worse than the good that is accomplished.
We really ought to take this conversation to the Stream thread, as this one is ostensibly for discussion of issues related to COVID-19.
We had our first minor die of COVID-19 in Oklahoma today. Or maybe it was yesterday, and is just now being reported.
