Reparations to FBA is actually beneficial to everyone else as well and I believe that's the biggest reason nobody wants to do it. Kamala Harris was right when she said any policy that helps black people will help everyone but her conclusion was to do the opposite thing as her premise.
Kamala Harris: "let's be clear, the door says push"
also Kamala Harris:
But is not her fault. We're talking about a nation that said all men are created equal as they had slaves and didn't let even some white people vote and most everyone didn't see the contradiction in that. This type of word/action incongruity is the bedrock of America and was merely passed down generation after generation because no one ever addresses it.
People see what they want to see. America's justice system is said to be based on collective precedent. What is the precedent created if some people get justice and some people do not yet it's still called a "justice system"? The precedent is injustice, that America's justice system is actually based on preference and luck and everyone believes that is justice. But being un-preferred and having bad luck cannot be localized to just black people. Simultaneously, if you believe what we have is justice (preference and luck), its opposite, actual justice will appear to be injustice to you thus making it virtually impossible for America to un-fuck itself.
We hear this inherently contradictory phrase: "Racial Justice" as if it means anything but everyone thinks it makes sense. You can't have "Racial Injustice". You either have Justice or you don't. Either the entire American collective has justice or the entire American collective does not.
We talk about certain black individuals being used as proxies to fight against the Black collective, but I would also say the Black collective is being use as a proxy to fight against the entire American collective. Though I would say it is unconscious because to fight against justice for FBA is literally to fight against justice for yourself, it's insanity. It's futile to fight for justice anywhere else in society if you fight against or ignore it here.
It is embedded in the fabric of America to hold noble beliefs about America in the face of a clearly contradictory reality; since the beginning, everyone has been agreeing to see the same illusions. This is why these politicians can speak the correct premise yet draw self contentious conclusion from it and no one bats an eyelash.
I posit, we are not necessarily dealing with malicious people as much as we are, insane people.
