# Are you allowed to make predictions for a Pit thread?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 11, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-allowed-to-make-predictions-for-a-pit-thread/683401 "2014-03-11T02:15:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-allowed-to-make-predictions-for-a-pit-thread/683401/17 "2014-03-13T12:04:31Z")

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Trust **Clothy** to make the dumbest post… In a thread about how, in order to make reparations for slavery in segregation, we should give each black person a lot of money and send them to a foreign country. _Wow_.

> [@Reparations Revisited](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reparations-revisited/681969/157):
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> Since you’re so adamant about reparations, you’ve completely overlooked an area of reparations that never gets addressed.
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> Our southern ancestors legally owned property that was taken from them without due compensation by the northern government. We deserve due compensation for such outrageous theft, plus interest since 1865.
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> Sound reasonable to you? It’s just as reasonable as the hogwash you spouted, so why don’t we simply consider it a wash and move on?

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