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Post by gameboy on Apr 5, 2020 2:21:52 GMT
I believe the U.S. Government owes reparations to the descendants of African-American slaves for allowing U.S. citizens to be enslaved in defiance of the U.S. Bill of Rights. That's a legal issue. However, I don't personally blame anyone who grew up in 18th century for believing slavery was acceptable. It was an established economic practice at the time. Gamey, that belies what you commented on earlier, about standards from over 100yrs ago. What is the difference then? Legal, historic, social context, establishment decree, it doesn't matter. It is now used as a crux to scream oppression. We know legality is full of selective reasoning and hypocrisies, we just need to learn from past mistakes. Africans even enslaved their own and sold their own to the white traders. Legal documents in writing which have the force of law and the state behind them are very different than one person's personal bias. The problem with the U.S. Constitution is that it guarantees its citizens certain inalienable rights in one place, and then takes those rights away arbitrarily from others based on race. The U.S. Government is 250 years old. It still exists and it must be held accountable.
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