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Originally posted by BuDDaH
Well, I guess the fact that these companies have been BUILT on and have PROFITTED on slavery has NOTHING to do with it... with the intention of PROFITTING by forcebly keeping people in slavery isn't a factor either..
Here's an DOCUMENTED FACT: They came and "bought" people who clearly did not belong to them, ship them half a world away, make then pick their cotton and tobacco and all that whatnot, never paid them a cent, forced long hours on them, beat, raped, killed, lynched for sport, force them into servitude, made them even breed to make more slaves for them (Do this for about 7 generations..) Tell them they have no rights and never will be "equal", steal their culture and make them understand yours, all the while the "owners" are doing it all just to make money and become multimillionaries, and you tell me you have a "problem understanding why this lawsuit is happening.
And "IF" I made a product that clearly causes death and sickness, and then injected more chemicals just to make it even more addictive, how quick would they pull it off the market and I'd get sued?
I guess if I took of you over there to work a diamond or gold mine and hit it big and made millions and didn't pay you anything at all, you'd sue..
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These companies' names were built on slavery yes. They profited from it. The people working there now, years later, have nothing in common with the people then, they are mostly not even related. They are just as much opposed to slavery as you are, as are we all. They supplied the BOATS, they didn't sell any slaves, they didn't buy any slaves, they supplied boats and insurance for them, as they did for other trading routes just the same (spices, soap, ... ) Slavery wasn't illegal then, and for most people not even morally reprehensible at that time ( different times, different morals).
So the people working there at that time, were only indirectly involved, and the people working there now, are not even directly involved with the people that were indirectly involved then.
The people sueing now, are not the grandchildren, or even the great-grandchildren of those slaves.
They can very well be genetically linked to those slaves over several generations, I agree. But how did it affect them? really? Explain to me how it had an influence on *their* lives?
If you're going to say that afterwards for generations they were put down, and kept small and such... that's a thing society did called racism, not something the FedEx of the time did..