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Originally posted by captain
Reparations will do nothing to improve race relations.
Besides how would we devide the spoils? Where do we stop? Do the 2500 descendents of Freed Slaves who became slaveowners get some of the money? Do the people who came here after slavery need to pay? How about the southern sharecroppers who did not own slaves.
Way to many questions without answers.
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Very interesting point. Speaking of reperations in general,does a time line exist for those who get and those who don't?
For instance,German companies as well as the German government paid out billions of dollars to Jewish holocaust survivors and their families for the atrocities commited against Jews.
Not so the case with between 1-2 million non-Jewish Poles who suffered the same fate in concentration camps. Apparently their claims were viewed as secondary and incidental.
In Canada during and after WWII Japanese citizens were put in camps for security reasons and immigration from China wasn't allowed. How about these folks?
In years down the road will screening people who may be thought of as suspicious because of race or religion regarding terrorism be seen as a civil rights issue? If so,what may they expect in terms of a settlement?