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> >...I don't know whether or not Obama intends to pay
> reparations to various ethnic groups or how he might do that should he
> want to. 

I very much misdoubt Obama will even bring it up.  From my readings he had 
had his economists work out what any sort of reparations scheme would cost. 
NOT 
to seriously consider implementing it but rather to shut up the people who 
expected him to take up the issue.

He's a socialist but he's not stupid.

The real issue here is not what Obama is going to do, but what people's 
expectation of what he'll do is.  And the thing I took from your original 
observation on the matter, Bev, is that probably not everyone is  even 
consciously 
aware that they even have that expectation.  But so very many do.

If you had been stewed in the notion that many of your problems were not your 
fault, not the results of your decisions, but instead were the lasting after 
effects of abuse and discrimination, then with a non-white president, how 
could you help but have a feeling of expectation.

When that expectation is not realized, there may be trouble.  It may be as 
subtle and below the conscious as the expectation itself, but it's coming to 
a 
country near you.

James