Thread: PUB DISCUSSION Reparations
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Old 05-06-2009, 05:03 PM   #31 (permalink)
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What are you talking about? Who said anything about white slavery?
I wanted to make sure Roachboy's post wasn't misunderstood. His point about the historical context was important, but I felt the descriptions about "the white southern petit bourgeois" needed clarification.
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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.
Who are you arguing against? It's certainly not me. I've always supported the idea of reparations.
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