If something was done to you personally, sure. You're not owed special treatment for something that happened to people who look like you before you were even born though.

The communities that were harmed by government policy still very much exist. 

Yes, and those communities have had equal rights for a long time now. (As they should)

Everybody's ancestors were mistreated at some point. We can't move forward to a better tomorrow by living in the past or by continuing to treat people differently based on the colour of their skin.

Very true and that general idea applies to everything really. For example I'm gay and it would be an understatement to say that gay people had it rough in basically every country till pretty recently but that doesn't mean it'd be justified to give reparations for past homophobia. In countries like mine people like me can live equal lives now so equal treatment should be the goal or otherwise there could be an uptick in homophobia as backlash and in general it's trading one kind of discrimination for another which is not a good path.

There's also that most or at least many of the people in a group getting special treatment and many others who promote that sort of thing aren't gonna want it to stop even when it blatantly should so eventually it just becomes completely unjustified discrimination with no end in sight which only adds to the backlash.

Its all fun and games until you get to a point where it gets difficult to identify who is black and who is white (regarding black vs white racism). Me and my brother are 25% black as my mother is black (already mixed) and my father is white. I ended up being brown, my brother ended up being white. I got government privileges and quotas (if I wanted to), he doesnt get it. We both had access to the same opportunities from our parents. I would get an advantage applying for jobs especially for DEI loving companies. I never got discriminated in my life, he got several times as he has got a kind of bad boy appearance.

My wife is 100% white so my son is 12.5% black. He ended up also being brown although in a much lighter tone than me. His other traits are all "european" but having brown skin he could have access to a lot of privileges, which I will definitely forbid him to get if possible. At which point this stupid cycle stops?

I have a black cousin that loves white woman, only dates white woman. He is harassed online by other black people for doing so. In theory he should be allowed to date only inside his own race. Again, at which point the stupid cycle stops?

Racist attitudes should always be fought against, but creating divisions, quotas, privileges only seeds a "us vs them" environment, only creates more distortions, more racism. In the long run causes more harm than good.

Cyran gave you the explanation why the USA's setup is a unique one. There's no easy way out for the American people.

Eh, France's two round system may have a small effect, but the much bigger effect is the believe in the lie, that they cannot escape the two-party system. Beliefs are very strong influencers of our actions. So strengthening this belief is actively harming the people in the US.

But besides that, rules can be changed. In truth, two states already have a different system, a ranked choice system/instant runoff (even better than two-round): Alaska and Maine. More states are using it for local elections. So these rules aren't set in stone and can be changed. They are not the reason for the two-party-system.

I fail to see influence of the abscence of a presidential office on house seats. That sounds like a weak excuse.

Stop perpuating this lie. It bolsters the belief that there is no escape from the two parties. And that belief is the main reason nothing changes. Self-fulfilling prophecy.

I answered Cyran seriously, because I feel they are interested in a serious discussion.

You on the other hand put another idiotic lie on top: the idea of american exceptionalism. It is often used to paint americans as somehow superior, but you are not the first declaring americans as uniquely stupid: unable to break out of a two party misery pendulum like other countries.

The pendulum is that if people are fed up with one shitty party they elect the other, until they are fed up with them. But either way they don't escape the misery. So the misery pendulum. You declare americans are too stupid to break the cycle, you declare no escape from the misery. That is a lie and perpetuating this lie feeds into sustaining the two-party-system. As people fear the consequences of a third-party vote or resignate.

The situation is so bad that a murderer (Luigi Mangioni) is openly cheered on.

And yes, I know many hate americans enough to wish them not to escape this misery. As a non-american you have it easy to escape the misery. But I think differently. Besides the basic human decency for every human, I also think that this influences europe. Because enough dumb-dumb here want to emulate every bad policy from the americas. So a bad situation in the US over time leads to more boldness in proposing bullshit ideas for europeans.

So let's not make the situation worse. Let us not strenghtening the lie of the inevitability of the misery pendulum, of the two-party system. Americans should break free and improve their situation.

Which wouldn't be the main argument. But these communities still are affected by the ripple effects of the past discriminations. The main thing is that they didn't have time to build up generational wealth, but also in education (education level of parents already influences childs) and some other effects. I don't think you can repair past misdeeds, but I think policies can be applied to offset the still lingering effects of these past discriminations.

That looks like a very real life photo of a very ordinary and relatable moment that we see everywhere everyday, and I am extremely offended by it.