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So we leave out the homeless guy on the verge of death, because he's white. And we make sure Kanye and Oprah still get cut in?
The goal should be for a basic standard of living for everyone, not ensuring that rich people of color get the appropriate bump in their investment accounts.
Tbh who cares? Whenever any wealth redistribution plan gets brought up there's always so much concern that money doesn't get spent on the "wrong people." And as a result of that we end up creating a fuckton of bureaucracy to verify and gatekeep who is and isn't worthy of getting help, which invariably costs more than if we just... didn't do that.
Give Kanye and Oprah a check, whatever, I'd rather them get some money than spend an order of magnitude more on red tape
Black people have been and continue to be subjugated for being black though. Let's not pretend like exploitation in the US isn't race-based.
Of course our goal is liberation for all, but let's be real, any attempts at justice will necessarily assist black people especially, because they have been treated especially poorly for centuries.
You mean the rainbow coalition? It was multiracial and was led by black revolutionaries and emphasized black justice. So I dunno why you're insisting that black reparations and multiracial equity are mutually exclusive. They're not.
Also it didn't succeed because its leaders were assassinated and the movement got broken up by the feds. Reparations haven't happened because racism is profitable for capitalists, not because people haven't organized hard enough.
Of course white people are going to be involved, but we must keep in mind decolonization and self determination. We aren’t just gonna turn Amerikkka socialist, the wrongs of the Amerikan project must be righted. Every successful Marxist Leninist state has been decolonial.