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Kennedy has stepped in the mud on this one. Reparations cannot help get votes as no matter what the amount, it will not be accepted as enough. Then he will lose votes as the people thinking they should get more - they will be angry. There is no winning on this issue. Maga voters he is courting, Hispanics he is courting and Asians will all have a different take and his ability to get their vote will lessen. What will the Japanese whose parents were in internment camps in WW2 think? Will hispanic immigrants want to pay taxes to fund decedents of slaves? How will American Indians feel? There is no way to win on this. My eastern European ancestors came long after the civil war - why should I pay? I am already paying as my top academic children were denied good schools due to racial preferences. Now I have to pay more. How is this fair?

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Coming out in support of reparations, which is arguably one of the most divisive issues on the political playing field, is, let me be frank, pure idiocy. We are talking about something that over 60% of liberal Californians are against. In one swell swoop, RFK will lose support of the significant numbers of conservatives, libertarians, and independents who support him, along with a significant portion of anti-woke liberals who know what a disaster this would be. The winning recipe that MLK and Fred Hampton both hit upon before they were assassinated, was a working class coalition of blacks, Latino's, and whites. The key being helping working class and poor people, all of whom today are struggling to pay their inflated rent and food and healthcare. Not giving dubious handouts based on something that we dealt with when his Father was alive. Time to move on. We have to attend to our nation and planet being hijacked by predatory capitalists and techno-fascists.

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