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shakran · 03-01-2004, 05:29 PM

I've been hesitant to bring this up, but since this debate seems unable to die. . .

http://www.uwec.edu/Geography/Ivogel...s/charles3.htm

there are several other corroborating educational articles that confirm this - in the United States, free blacks owned black slaves.

Now, the reason I bring this up is to point out that to insist that white people should make reparations to black people is not only racist in the common-sense department, but it is also racially unethical as it penalizes white people who's ancestors never owned slaves while black people who's ancestors did own slaves not only are not penalized, but would benefit just as black people who's ancestors WERE slaves would.

Discuss.

03-01-2004, 05:29 PM	#184 (permalink)
shakran Tone.	I've been hesitant to bring this up, but since this debate seems unable to die. . . http://www.uwec.edu/Geography/Ivogel...s/charles3.htm there are several other corroborating educational articles that confirm this - in the United States, free blacks owned black slaves. Now, the reason I bring this up is to point out that to insist that white people should make reparations to black people is not only racist in the common-sense department, but it is also racially unethical as it penalizes white people who's ancestors never owned slaves while black people who's ancestors did own slaves not only are not penalized, but would benefit just as black people who's ancestors WERE slaves would. Discuss.