Subj : Re: Reparations
To   : AARON THOMAS
From : BOB ACKLEY
Date : Mon Mar 25 2019 16:28:02

>  LL> They were people, forcibly taken from their homelands, and then
>  LL> treated like cattle to do the bidding for their new "owners".
> 
> Everyone has been victimized by the government in one way or another; 
why not
> focus on government-mistakes more recent & relevant than slavery? 
Who's in
> office right now cracking that slavery whip?
> 
> The government used to allow lead paint for residential use; should
> descendants of lead paint victims sue the government?
> 
> How will it feel for a white guy like me to knock on a black person's 
porch
> with a check in my hand saying "I'm sorry for the slavery! I think 
you should
> have this money because someone with the same skin color as me 
enslaved your
> ancestor."

Actually, blacks were enslaved by other blacks, who then sold their 
slaves to white slave traders
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