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Graylight · 51-55, F
[i]Nobody is blaming you for slavery.[/i]
Let me repeat...[b][i]Nobody is blaming you for slavery.[/i][/b]
Reparations are a way of making whole a people who have been wronged. It's not a perfect solution - doing the right thing in the first place would've been - but it helps even the playing field.
I don't own slaves. My parents didn't own slaves. None of my ancestors did. In fact, we were all busy fleeing land that was oppressing [i]us.[/i] But I understand how institutionalized and systemic bias and disadvantage does over time.
Slave and their descendants are the [i]sole[/i] people wronged who haven't been paid some kind of reparation. Japanese, Native Americans, Germans, Alaskan natives, eugenics victims, testing victims, victims of torture...but not for slavery. Never once.
No you've got nothing to do with slave trade. No one says you do. That doesn't make us immune to the needs of others and the wrongs of ancestors.
Let me repeat...[b][i]Nobody is blaming you for slavery.[/i][/b]
Reparations are a way of making whole a people who have been wronged. It's not a perfect solution - doing the right thing in the first place would've been - but it helps even the playing field.
I don't own slaves. My parents didn't own slaves. None of my ancestors did. In fact, we were all busy fleeing land that was oppressing [i]us.[/i] But I understand how institutionalized and systemic bias and disadvantage does over time.
Slave and their descendants are the [i]sole[/i] people wronged who haven't been paid some kind of reparation. Japanese, Native Americans, Germans, Alaskan natives, eugenics victims, testing victims, victims of torture...but not for slavery. Never once.
No you've got nothing to do with slave trade. No one says you do. That doesn't make us immune to the needs of others and the wrongs of ancestors.