The US should pay reparations for slavery in the form of $100B given to educational and economic renewal in the black community, just as Germany paid $89B in reparations to Jews after WW2 & the US paid $20,000 in reparations to each surviving victim of Japanese internment camps.

Jan 9, 2019 · 4:58 AM UTC

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Hey Marianne: Appreciate elevating the issue and discussing it on your feed, but: 1) a lot of data points to increased education not being a sufficient response to centuries of systemic racial discrimination 2) you’re missing a couple of zeros: newsweek.com/slavery-reparat…
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I gave up on that long time ago. I just want us to be treated fairly.
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And who will compensate the families decendent from the 300,000 white Union soldiers who died to free the "black community" in the U.S. Civil War??
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I agree with you on the most things, but not this.. when America freed the slaves England was alone with slavery abolished. Nothing peculiar about it. It was accepted worldwide. Everything has to be taken in historical context. Comparing slavery to the Holocaust is false logic.
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So , if your parents killed someone you should go to jail for it ? I was never a slave owner and people today are not slaves and have not for generations. We are not victims of our past but creators of our future.
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No. There’s no precedent. The issues are as different as night and day.
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So, what would reparations for Native Americans look like? Especially groups like the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Ponca nations who were forced off their lands illegally.
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If that happens every white person would claim they were black.
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What about the American Indian?
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Send the bill to the Confederacy. The U.S. fought a war to end slavery, and over 600,000 men died to bring back freedom to this covenant land.
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