• Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I don’t know how many times Ive had to argue with white ppl on both sides of the political spectrum about how reparations are deserved.

    “It HaPpenNeD sO LoNG aGo!”

    You mean the fucking 70s?!

    • Etterra@discuss.online
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      9 hours ago

      Somebody deliberately crushed your knee when you were 9, leaving you in lifelong pain and with a limp. They never went to jail or paid your medical expenses, and now they’re chief of police, while you’re 45 and disabled. But it happened so long ago.