Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Let me help you out here Date:   6/7/2019 12:38:43 PM

I lost a good friend who is black, because I said I did not believe in reparations.  I told him I would be willing to pay reparations to any living slave, but not his children, great grandchild and great-great grandchilden.  I also told him that I thought that it was wrong for black folks to treat the police as I have seen on video after video.  He got mad that I thought it was not enough to "be tired being stopped" as a reason to refuse to cooperate.  I feel bad about losing his friendship (he used to call me Mom, for my mentoring him), but that is how I feel.  I don't think it makes me a racist.  When I was working, I always made it a point to hire well qualified minorites to give them a chance.  I have known a lot of black people in the past, been friends with a lot of them, but I do not understand this new attitude of something being owed to them.