Germany paid $89B to Jewish organizations since the Holocaust. We should have similar plan of reparations for slavery. Until then we wont have made a fundamental economic amends. Not enough to stop kicking someone to the ground; you also owe it to them to help them get back up.

Oct 1, 2018 · 5:11 AM UTC

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Well, they paid them while most Germans of WWII age were still alive. My ancestors were virtual slaves of the English and over a million starved to death during the great famine, but it would be absurd for the English today to pay me reparations. Ditto slavery reparations.
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Very different situation.
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What do you hope to accomplish with comments like these... Ever read any of your own books.
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What I hope to accomplish is the furthering of a conversation that I think matters. And I've written about it in a couple of my books, by the way. A nation as well as an individual needs to clean up its past, make amends for its errors, and begin on higher ground.
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You and all your buddies go first. My grandparents were escaping mass murder in Russia.
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What about this land's Native peoples?
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We should return the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Sioux.
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I'm both and 5% Scottish I'm for all of it, doesn't seem it'll happen though
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Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.” ― Chico Xavier @tinyboo49
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