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Why reparations are always about more than money
By Kerry Whigham NEW YORK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Jandworld
Where does going this far into history leave my country of choice
so far only able to conquer but not to keep it over time.
Strangerland
Are they? One ends your life. The other ends your life of freedom, and forces you to live the hell. Both end your life, in different ways.
Strangerland
And what about those who were slaves then ended up dead? Do you think they appreciated the time to be alive and be property?
Or do only the ones that escaped count? And if so, why?
englisc aspyrgend
I demand reparations and a personal apology from the president of Italy for the illegal invasion, religious oppression and human rights abuse of the Roman invasion!
Hito Bito
Why reparations are always about more than money...
No, they're not. Not even close to "always".
Commodore Perry
This article is all over the place.
Germans killing Namibians, Torture and death of hundreds of thousands in Latin American countries. The Holocaust. Genocide in Cambodia.
Oh--slavery in the US.
Commodore Perry
Christopher LoweryToday 01:27 am JST
Totally different.
I don't know any country in the world that has the same penalty for killing someone or enslaving them.
Zaphod
OK, but how many generations back do we go? Are Europeans and Americans going to get reparations from Morocco and Tunesia for the thousands of sailors who were captured and enslaved by the Barbary Caliphates?
bass4funk
How would you even quantify or delegate reparations, it's literally impossible, I just can't see it happening, the lawsuits would fly like crazy, just absurd on its head.
Commodore Perry
The author of this poorly written article is a university professor?
But really, in the US today, what would reparations actually do?
If anything, I am for giving back certain lands to Indian tribes. Beyond that, there is no rationale for reparations, unless a former slave is still living.
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StrangerlandToday 01:51 am JST
Oh, so they are the same? Not in any modern day country.
ANYONE who escaped slavery will say they are thankful for the chance to live.
Hey freed slave--you have two choices--you can die, or you can live freely.