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Originally Posted by Willravel
Sherman's Special Field Orders offered each freed family 40 acres and a mule, not the white southerners. I'm not aware of widespread white slavery in the pre-Civil war US, therefore, the orders really only talk about the slaves we all picture. It's these orders people cite when commonly discussing reparations. Still, this is less about committed obligation and more about justice. The social inequality reparations were supposed to help fix still exist, albeit in a different incarnation.
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What are you talking about? Who said anything about white slavery?
Every freed slave was promised 40 acres and a mule, they were given some paltry bullshit consolation prize and then had it taken away from them by Johnson. I think the less-enlightened of us call that Indian Giving. If a nation honoring it's promises to its own quasi-citizens is not a form of justice, then I'd like to hear what you believe justice is.