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Quote by: Praxius Nor can one dwell on the past.... one can only learn from it. | But, one can get paid for past wrongs. Almost 50 years after WWII payments were given to Japanese Americans who were interned during the war. Why would that not be considered a fait accompli, but some kind of payment to the black ethnic group due to slavery is? Is it merely the length of time? What denotes a fait accompli in your mind -- or anyone`s who reads this thread? |
Your very first sentence contains the essential truth of this matter, and the real motivation behind this movement--filthy lucre.
It is a movement without reason, based in ignorance and politically correct offal.
How about the idea of 'reparations' for the whites whose ancestors never owned any slaves (about 98% didn't), and yet died to free those blacks? Shall we just ignore the white American's contribution to the black man's freedom, given that slavery would have possibly gone on for decades longer had it not been for the blood spilled upon the battlefields of our Civil War?
And not just a little blood, either. We're talking biblical scales, here, folks.
In fact, in all America's wars since, we have but hardly reached the total of that one callous adventure.
Add to that, the further insult of the revisionist's goal of painting America as the sole perpetrator and promoter of this vile, albeit entirely natural phenomenon called slavery, and you have a recipe for unfair and divisive recriminations that can only serve to alienate one part of our society from another.
Knock it off.