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Reparations for Today, Reparations Tomorrow, Reparations Forever
Why some of you white Neo-Liberals and Conservatives remain clueless about reparations
One of the definitions of the word reparation, is the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. In America, if we want to discuss groups who have been wronged, the list is long, but few groups have been treated as poorly as black Americans. Black Americans were stolen from their native lands. They were drowned by the hundreds of thousands, as they were tossed overboard in their chains from the slave ships that ran into storms during transport and were foundering.
Black Americans were put to work as human property, to build the wealth of America with their labor and misery. Slavery and American Capitalism poisoned just about every group prior to the Civil War, including groups who had themselves been persecuted. Black Americans have been abused by most groups in America at one time or the other. This is the potion white supremacy mixed with American Capitalism, to create the carrot on the end of a stick to entice immigrants and others to support the white supremacist system. That if they worked hard enough, they too, could one day own slaves, rule over employees, or be wealthy.
