"Practicalities" of Reparations (was Re: Defacing Websites, "Stealing" Free Papers)

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Mar 30 08:48:40 PST 2001


Doug says:


>>(1) Affirmative action demands that we define race.
>
>Not for 35 million people all at once.

The Census? You always boast that the U.S. government has the best stats in the world.


>> Racial profiling demands that cops define race.
>
>So we get a bunch of NJ State Troopers who know 'em when they see
>'em to set social policy?

When America punishes blacks, it has no problem identifying them, but when it comes to paying reparations to them, it suddenly develops color-blindness? :-) How odd.

Yoshie



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