(06-30-2019, 02:21 AM)jj82284 Wrote:

(06-29-2019, 09:03 PM)mikesez Wrote: There are lots of forms of slavery that have nothing to do with cotton or with whips.

None of them are comparable to how you feel when a judge interprets a 200+ year old document differently than you would.

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It does if that interpretation leads to the state stealing my labor for purposes not spelled out in the constitution.

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(06-29-2019, 10:16 PM)mikesez Wrote: And getting back to the original topic, the military reconstruction of the southern United States between 1865 and 1876 was not particularly friendly either. I'm not aware of civilians being brought in as forced labor, but the property taxes were punitive. They were trying to break up the huge plantations. Many of the big owners were not able to pay, and many lands were condemned and redistributed to people who previously did not own any land, both black and white, both northerners and Southerners. So while it was pretty indirect, I do think you could argue that the slave owners in particular paid some reparations.  
I think the bigger problem is what happened after 1876 when discrimination became legal again.  It's great that we're no longer officially discriminating but I do think more attention needs to be paid to eliminating the inequalities associated with that century of de-jure discrimination.

There you go again....

How many times does it have to be pointed out?  State intervention does not lead to massive uplifting of society!  Most of the pathologies that affect the black community can be traced back to government policies (all intended to help blacks) not slavery or even segregation.