Slavery reparations?

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Thanks IDCrewDawg for starting the thread.

You're welcome.

I just dont like the attitude where you think, "yes, something wrong happened. But who cares? It didn't happen to me, so lets not worry about it." I don't think thats right.

Are you implying I have no concern for the history of African Americans? If you are, I am rather surprised you would make this assumption. My stance on this particular subject is; I don't feel there is any need to financially compensate a racial group of people for something that happened more than 2 generations before. There is not a single American "trapped in their current situation" as a result of something the US government did to their ancestors three generations ago. Not even living here in America. You may tell me they wouldn't be here if their ancestors hadn't been brought to America, and I counter than once slavery was abolished, those same ancestors could have at some point made their way back to their roots. This did not happen for whatever reason.

The attitudes and oppression that was very prominent until the civil rights movement of the 1960's is not related to this issue, and I would caution anyone who may attempt to link the two. For if you do, what your saying is America had a situation of near slavery, without acknowledging the slave status of African Americans.

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