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SW-User
The theory I have is that not one person living black person today has been though slavery. Therefore they deserve and are entitled to nothing. Slavery has been abolished over a hundred and fifty years and I don't think anyone has survived that long. The north did everything we could to stop slavery and sacrificed our ancestors blood so they could be free. That should be more then enough in reparations.
@SW-User
But they are still suffering the consequences of slavery. You'd be a fool to think otherwise. It wasn't so very long ago that it was still illegal for a black person to marry a white person. It wasn't so long ago that black people were by law given different rights than white people.
Just because black people living today weren't enslaved doesn't mean they aren't still suffering as a result
But they are still suffering the consequences of slavery. You'd be a fool to think otherwise. It wasn't so very long ago that it was still illegal for a black person to marry a white person. It wasn't so long ago that black people were by law given different rights than white people.
Just because black people living today weren't enslaved doesn't mean they aren't still suffering as a result
BayouBoudin · 36-40, M
@Pikachu What consequences are they suffering due to slavery? Anti-miscegenation laws are Jim Crow laws. Not slavery. Again, rights were given to Blacks that made them less than that of whites. However that was pushed under Jim Crow. Black people today suffer from a few different things. The legacy of Jim Crow. The unfair Treatment by the US Federal Government. Adopting dependency on the state, High crime rates, Dindu behavior.