I was listening to someone who said the whites need to pay reparations to blacks for slavery. Since no one alive today was a slave, the blacks should perversely thank slavery.
It is an unfortunate truth that anyone who ancestor had to move/or was moved because of a bad situation exists today because of that tragedy. Example: Assume you are a decadent of Irish person who forced to leave Ireland and go to he United States because of the rotten treatment by the English landlords. If that had not happen you would not exist today. It is not a choice of whether you would be living in Ireland or the U.S., it is a choice between existing or never been born.
You can receive reparations for anything that happen before your conception, for without those actions you would not have been born.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Side Note: Did you know the first slave owner was black?
"In 1654, John Casor, an African, became the first legally recognized slave in the present United States. A court in Northampton County ruled against Casor, declaring him property for life, "owned" by the black colonist Anthony Johnson. Since persons with African origins were not English citizens by birth, they were not necessarily covered by English Common Law. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States
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