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Singer Lauryn Hill Blames Slavery For Not Paying Her Taxes
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http://hiphopwired.com/2013/05/08/la...es-on-slavery/ “I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them,” the New Jersey native told U.S. Magistrate Madeline Cox Arleo.“I had an economic system imposed on me. Someone did the math, and it came to around $600 million. And I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt?” |
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I think those government initiatives toward the education of minorities are working. Things are improving and will continue to do so as long as they are in place. Things don't change over night. Let this play out, man. It IS working. |
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DUhr unless of course there is some kind of genetic predisposition - after all there is genetic predisposition to make dudes like other dudes reparations and affirmative action don't fix the problem NOW though generations of blacks need to unlearn destructive behavior and generations of whites need to unlearn their racist/whatever behavior
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However, there were a few people in this thread that were getting carried away with the idea that believing in a need for reparations makes a person "crazy". It is not crazy. But, it is also not the answer (which you have pointed out). Government initiatives to further the education of minorities have a much more lasting benefit (as was pointed out by another poster). |
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Sure, but let's see why you think it is here first.
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Specifically, the judge and prosecutor, who, statistically, are likely to be white.
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I have no problem with us continuing programs like magnet schools, etc...; I think there's a great deal of promise in them. However, bullshit attitudes like Hill's stand in the way of that progress, as does the continuing decline of family bonds within the black community. The unbelievably high rate of unwed single mothers among young black women has nothing to do with 'the system'. And it's going to be what keeps any of that progress from being more than drops in the ocean. No amount of government intervention will act as a viable substitute for parenting and a stable family. Right now it sure looks like there is very little value placed on those things within the black community. You're just building on sand.
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Oh sure, we can try to take the kind, cuddly approach to it and say "well hell no!" but what the hell do I know? Whites are more genetically predisposed to certain diseases and physical maladies. Blacks are more predisposed to others. There are physical distinctions as well. There might be behavioral or cognitive distinctions as well. I don't know. I don't claim to know - I know exactly jack shit about the biological makeup of the respective races. Which is why your question is clearly little more than a trap question. None of us are even remotely qualified to answer it. Everyone knows the answer they should give, but their basis for giving it is based on...well nothing really. Personally, I think if you dropped 100,000 black babies on Mars and 100,000 white babies on Mars, after several generations you'd see some kind of split in where they excelled and did not. I don't think there would be a predisposition towards criminal conduct, no. I don't know what the differences would be - but I'm confident there would be quite a few of them. I also don't think that's terribly relevant to this discussion. I don't think biology is the problem in this instance.
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