[QUOTE="SpartanMSU"]
The fact that you view people in this country based on race is, quite honestly, disgusting. Aren't we supposed to be past that? Aren't we supposed to look at people by the content of their character? Isn't this a society based on indvidualism and protecting the indvidual?
EntropyWins
1) I find the fact that you think the United States government can be racist against blacks (especially considering the severity of slavery) for hundreds of years (they have been racist longer than they haven't been) and then not have to do anything to help those who they commited crimes against absolutely appalling.
2) We can't be past that because society is still feeling the affects of this extended, institutionalized racism today. You can't just give them the lable of "free" (which didn't really happen until 40 years ago) and expect the problem to go away. That is like beating a man within an inch of his life and then instead of taking him to the hospital to heal, you leave him on the side of the road and say he should just be thankful you stopped beating him.
3) No, you like to pretend this is a society based on individualism, but the fact that there was a provision in our original constitution claiming that blacks only counted for 3/4 of a person seems to say otherwise.
1) Everybody who was ever a slave, a slave owner, or alive in the era where slavery was legal is dead, as is their children and grandchildren. You are advocating rewarding or punishing people who had nothing to do with it. 2) And white people who are in hard times don't count for anything right? Black people have basically had 50 years of equality since the racial equality movement, and honestly if you haven't improved yourself over 50+ years, that's on you. 3) It was 2/3, and again this was the past, we learned from our mistakes, why pretend that we didn't? 
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