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Reparations
I agree. Just last Sunday, "60 minutes" did a piece on this movement by some in the black community to get reparations for slavery. The pro-reparations group feel that because Jewish (slave) workers are getting money from German industry and former Japanese internees got money from the US Gov't, the black community should get paid too. One the one hand, this seems somewhat reasonable - however, the problem (in my opinion) is in the implementation of this payout. One politician estimated the figure to be up to 10 Trillion dollars, which is a completely insane amount of money. Furthermore, as someone stated earlier in this thread, WHO would get the cash? It would just be one huge mis-managed slush fund where certain "connected" parties would get rich while the majority would get nothing.
Living in the past and demanding retribution for past wrongs can only lead to conflict and unrest (Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ireland, the Balkans, Canada etc. etc.). Simple as it sounds, we all have to deal with the present and stop letting some people constantly beat us over the head with things that happened decades or centuries ago. If we go back far enough, I suspect we ALL have some legitimate complaint against somebody.
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