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Old Oct 4, 2004, 09:58 pm   #19 (permalink) (top)
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and, someone correct me if i'm wrong, but this march wasn't about reparations, it was about the stain of slavery.
"The stain of slavery" makes as much sense as a bunch of white folks saying that "they are sorry." No one wears a "stain" because of our skin color, whether white or black. And no one is responsible for slavery today unless they are a slaveowner currently or in the recent past.

Given the ongoing debate about race it seems unlikely that any reasonably aware individual will forget the institution of slavery. At the risk of repeating myself, I fail to see how playing dress-up advances the debate.


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