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    1. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

      “White Americans have long known that in a country where black people have been kept disproportionately poor, rules and policies involving money can be nearly as effective for maintaining the color line as legal segregation” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/24/magazine/reparations-slavery.html …

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    2. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

      “You do not have to have laws forcing segregated housing and schools if white Americans, using their generational wealth and higher incomes, can simply buy their way into expensive enclaves with exclusive public schools that are out of the price range of most black Americans”

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    3. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

      “Slavery and the 100-year period of racial apartheid and racial terrorism known as Jim Crow were, above all else, systems of economic exploitation”

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    4. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

      “Laws barred enslaved people from making wills or owning property, distinguishing black people in America from every other group on these shores and assuring that everything of value black people managed to accrue would add to the wealth of those who enslaved them”

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    5. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

      “Most white Americans felt that black Americans should be grateful for their freedom, that the bloody Civil War had absolved any debt. The government confiscated the land from the few formerly enslaved families who had started to eke out a life and gave it back to the traitors”

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    6. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

      “To this day, the only Americans who have ever received government restitution for slavery were white enslavers in Washington, D.C., who were compensated for their loss of human property”

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    7. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

      “We are not prodded to contemplate what it means to achieve freedom without a home to live in, without food to eat, a bed to sleep on, clothes for your children or money to buy any of it”

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    8. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

      “When the serfs of Russia were emancipated, they were given three acres of ground upon which they could live and make a living. But not so when our slaves were emancipated. They were sent away empty-handed”

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    9. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

      “Just after the federal government decided that black people were undeserving of restitution, it began bestowing millions of acres in the West to white Americans under the Homestead Act, while also enticing white foreigners to immigrate with the offer of free land”

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    10. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

      “The campaigns of white terror that marked the period after Reconstruction, known as Redemption, once again guaranteed an exploitable, dependent labor force for the white South”

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      Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

      “At least 6,500 black people were lynched from the end of the Civil War to 1950, an average of nearly 2 a week for nine decades. Nearly 5 black people, on average, have been killed a week by law enforcement since 2015.”

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        2. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

          “98 percent of the loans the Federal Housing Administration insured from 1934 to 1962 went to white Americans, locking nearly all black Americans out of the government program credited with building the modern (white) middle class.”

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        3. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

          “White Americans tend to view the end of legal discrimination, after 350 years, is all that was required to vanquish this dark history and its effects. Changing the laws, too many Americans have believed, marked the end of the obligation”

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        4. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

          King said: “Now our struggle is for genuine equality, which means economic equality. For we know that it isn’t enough to integrate lunch counters. What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter if he doesn’t have enough money to buy a hamburger?”

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        5. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

          “Racial income disparities today look no different than they did the decade before King’s March on Washington. The racial wealth gap is about the same as it was in the 1950s as well. The typical black household today is poorer than 80 percent of white households.”

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        6. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

          The “2019 Yale University study, called ‘The Misperception of Racial Economic Inequality,’ found that Americans believe that black households hold $90 in wealth for every $100 held by white households. The actual amount is $10.”

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        7. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

          “Americans tend to justify persistent racial inequality by ignoring the ‘tailwinds that have contributed to their economic success while justifying inequalities of wealth and poverty by invoking the role of individuals’ traits and skills as explanations for these disparities.’”

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        8. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

          “Black Americans with a college education hold less wealth than white Americans who have not even completed high school”

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        9. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

          “Wealth begets wealth, and white Americans have had centuries of government assistance to accumulate wealth, while the government has for the vast history of this country worked against black Americans doing the same”

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        10. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

          “Reparations would go to any person who has documentation that he or she identified as a black person for at least 10 years before the beginning of any reparations process and can trace at least one ancestor back to American slavery” (that second condition seems tricky)

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        11. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

          “It took Congress just a matter of weeks to pass a $2.2 trillion stimulus bill to help families and businesses struggling from the Covid-19 shutdowns. When, then, will this nation pass a stimulus package to finally respond to the singularity of black suffering?”

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        12. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

          “Black Americans had already lost the largest share of their wealth of all racial groups as a result of the last recession and have struggled the most to recover. They are the only racial group whose household median income is less than it was in 2000”

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        13. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 28 Jun 2020

          “A truly great country does not ignore or excuse its sins. It confronts them and then works to make them right. It is time for [the United States] to pay its debt. It is time for reparations.”

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