Shouldn't we give reparations to Native Americans?

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ijjawimisah said:

theman88 said:
If you havent noticed our country economically is still in the toilet. We cant afford to pay our bills, and we certainly cannot afford this. Nice idea.... but if this did happen then There would have to be African American reparations and we would be broke all the way to the birth of a second China in the western hemishere

Dude your country has  lower unemployment than 9/10's of the world's countries and higher gdp growth than practically all of europe. It's one of the top ten richest countries in the world (GDP per capita http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita) and despite all the complaing about the 99% America still has a huge middle class relative to the rest of the world. .

As an american, i don't think we should be using our economic situaition as an excuse for anything...

O and african americans aren't a cohesive group which can really be defined and located in the event we decided to pay them reparations native americans can't be compared to them.

Reparations are unrealistic but affirmative action should stay alive, at least in universities. MInorities should benefit from calamities.

Why should affirmative action benefit minorities and not the disadvantaged? Some disadvantaged white people don't get into university while there are African American's who are not disadvantaged who do get in with lower results despite having no reason for it.

I am for a few spots being put aside for affimative action, but only based on one's personal disadvantage's and not the presumed disadvantages of one's race or gender. And when i say gender i mean men and women as some university have lowered standards for men to balance the number's, something whith witch i totaly disagree.

I am also really surprised with your clearly childish statement "Minorities should benefit from calamities" as that is a completely absurd way to phrase what it is I think you're saying.