# Blacks and the GOP

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-and-the-gop/543057>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 13, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-and-the-gop/543057 "2010-06-13T22:53:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Honesty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@Honesty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honesty)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-and-the-gop/543057/361 "2010-07-05T16:07:04Z")

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> [@Susanann](#):
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> That is the stupidest idea I have ever heard!
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> If you really want reparations, then come up with a workable computer program that will correctly process all possible conditions.
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> Until you can correctly figure out how to do it, then the “reparations” that you talk of is just a “red herring”.

Why is it a red herring? The United States owes a debt. If you notice, everyone else America bullied got reparations (e.g. domestic Japanese citizens during WWII, tribal land for Native Americans, etc). The United States even gave the Jews reparations for WW2 even though, if my history correct, the U.S didn’t support the Nazi Germany at all. The GOP could support reparations by issuing a a partial reparation check to everyone who is identified as “African-American” in the social security database. Problem solved.

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