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U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel

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(This post was last modified: 09-28-2016, 09:43 AM by Solid Snake.)

Quote:It's not workable. You can't figure out whose ancestor was a slave. A lot of black people do not have slave ancestors. A lot of white people have African slave ancestors that lived in America as slaves. A lot of US citizens only came to the United States recently.


Who collects? Who pays?


There's no way to figure it out. So the whole idea is ridiculous.
So work out a way to find out who did or didn't have ancestors who were slaves. Also I'm not sure where this idea most black peoples ancestors weren't slaves comes from. If you can trace your ancestors back 150+ years in North America your ancestors were likely slaves. They certainly weren't immigrants attempting to escape religious persecution.


And reparations don't necessarily have to be of direct monetary value. It could be reduced tuition costs or something that might benefit everyone including non-blacks in the long run.
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U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel - by Solid Snake - 09-28-2016, 09:35 AM



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