No more welfare checks

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Originally posted by Chunkster

Reparations? Yeah, right. Ask the African-Americans how that's working out for them. A few Pacific island nations get assistance from the USA because we detonated A-bombs and made parts of them uninhabitable. No comparison to Hawaii, which voted overwhelmingly for statehood in a free election.

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This is all hypothetical but if the US did grant Hawaii it's independence, we would go the full route with reparations. I mean the US is for fair play after all and if we are going to admit to and correct this mistake by granting independence, we would have to take it all the way. African-Americans did not get direct reparations for slavery but they did get other benefits and entitlements, did they not? The vote for statehood has no bearing on this issue of reparations.