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The defendants "have destroyed our national and ethnic identity," one of the plaintiffs, Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, said at a news conference announcing the suit, which seeks $1 billion in punitive damages.
IMHO, the problem with this is Deadria seems to think that her descendants actually have a national and ethnic heritage. Slavery IS their heritage when speaking of historical United States. I am sorry to say this, but there was little to no black population living in the U.S. before slavery was introduced. This is of course not the issue.
The issue is whether companies like the aforementioned should be held accountable for injustices that occurred long before anyone at that company was even born. 100 years down the road, can ethnic groups still argue that their lives are somehow hampered from events that happened several hundred years ago?
I am not proud of certain parts of our rutted history, but it has been long enough that people need to get over it! We all have an equal chance in society to make the best of our situation. It just continues to piss me off to see people taking advantage of our already fucked up legal system because there are always people (companies) that will just pay a settlement keep bitches like this from flapping her gums.
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-Homer Simpson
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