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Back to episode — Episode 2986 CWSA 10/12/25

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rations? Do you think it'll be people who are on the committee that were doing reparations? Of course it is. Some of them. So this seems to be just another way to funnel tax money to reparations advocates without ever getting any reparations. So I don't believe this will lead to reparations because even Gavin doesn't think that's a good idea. But it will lead to people who want reparations getting…

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ere's no chance of that. That's never worked for anybody. You probably would just blow through it and be glad you had it for a year and then it would be gone and it would have no impact on your life after you bought a car and although if you needed the car for work, that might have helped a lot. Yeah, lottery winners don't exactly become successful and happy after they win the lottery. So there's your reframe. The reframe is not how much reparation should you pay. The reframe is nobody has a special problem. That your problem isn't special. And the only way black America can fix their problems is if black Americans decide to fix their problems doing the exact same thing that everybody else did to fix their problems. There's no other path. Nobody can give you a leg up on that. There's no secret password. There's nothing. You just do what everybody else did. And if that doesn't work, well, I'm sorry. That's all we have. All we have is what everybody does. There's nothing else. So there's your reframe for reparations.

All right, everybody. That's all I got for today. That's all you needed. I'm going to say hi to the special people on Locals and the rest of you. Thanks for coming. I will see you again tomorrow. Same time, same place. Locals, my beloveds, coming at you now. It'll be private in