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Originally posted by BuDDaH
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It's a CLASS ACTION suit, not only for just the 8 of them... And it seems like they can actually PROVE with evidence how these companies affected them and their ancestors. They will most likely get laughed and ridiculed because IF they CAN prove it and it held weight, imagine the floodgates it will open. Almost EVERY BLACK AMERICAN can PROVE it just by showing his linage 5 generations back. Thats why we might forgive how we were treated then, but NEVER forget "OUR" history.
did you even read the article? it's not a class action suit. there are only 8 plaintiffs. and they are "accusing them of profiting by committing genocide against their ancestors." i'd have to say bringing them over to work, while not caring too much about their welfare, is far from genocide. going out and trying to kill them all would be genocide.
*ADDED Random FACT*
Every President that has tried to enforce equality to Black Americans has been ASSASINATED.
if you're gonna throw that out, please, back it "f" up.
Ask yourself "Why"? The answer might scare you...
especially when you realise it's not quite that simple.
.... and SLAVERY was NEVER a culture, dude.
no, but it's been apart of the ruling culture since the beginning of times. it's just a matter of whose on top and whose on bottom at the time.
It's like the German's were saying, "Sticking the Jews in an oven is quite the fashion this time of the year...."
don't throw jokes into a serious debate, it makes me smile and that just throws off my A game. jk... and i don't think that's a real german saying, sounds more like a joke said about them.
Excuse me for being blunt, but this is a very serious topic, and I need to point out the severity of this charges being made against "Big Businesses" that has profitted because of slavery..
you're right, it is a serious topic. and "big business," other than tobacco, did not profit off of slaves. they profited off of trading and insuring merchandise. if it wasn't slaves, it would have been tea, or ink, or any number of other things. not that that makes slavery right. but it was legal...