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Originally Posted by Zenturian
My comments were pretty much ignored...
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...fine.
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Originally Posted by Zenturian
I figure fighting a war where one in four American was wounded in is enough of a payment. Also, black Americans enjoy the seventh best quality of life in the world, far better than any African nation. So in effect, reparations have already been paid.
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The civil war was mainly about economic divergence, statism vs. federalism, and Southern paranoia about Lincoln. Oddly enough, these same issues plague our nation today. While the one of the eventual outcomes of the civil war was the Emancipation Proclamation, the war itself wasn't really just about slavery. It wasn't even primarily about slavery. Those injured Americans weren't just injured for slaves, they were injured for myriad reasons.
As for quality of life, that's a bit of an oversimplification. Black people in the US are disproportionately impoverished. Black people in the US are disproportionately incarcerated. Black people in the US are still very often the victims of systemic racism. Things are better than they were 100 years ago, but that's not really saying much.