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If corporations that exist today can be proven to have profitted from slavery, regardless if they are owned by black or white people, then they should pay reparations to the descendents of the people they enslaved.
This doesn't extend to all whites, and it doesn't extend from a single corporation to all blacks. Merely, if an existing entity can be proven to have directly benefitted (or utilized) slavery, then it ought to reimburse the lineage of the people it violated.
In this capitalist society, aren't the earnings, at least in part, of current corporations based on the capital it amassed in the past. If those assets were ill-gotten, then it shouldn't be allowed to continue to profit from such gains.
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