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Blacks Rally D.C. for Reparations
(Yahoo! News)
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Hundreds of blacks rallied in front of the Capitol on Saturday to demand slavery reparations, saying that compensation is long overdue for the ills of that institution.BoyCaught has mixed feelings about this. The cast of characters leading the charge are problematic because they're not taken seriously. But on the other hand, there are some merits to the issue. After all, Japanese-Americans where compensated to the tune of $20,000 per person for five years of internment during WWII, where 120,000 people were incarcerated. And the American government has hosted talks with Germany on reparations for victims of the Holocaust. Something like 90,000 were considered slave laborers, and an estimated 6 million died. By comparison, American slave trade covered several hundred years, destroyed hundreds of millions of African lives in the process, and created immense wealth for the country. Other groups have placed a dollar value on their perceived timebound pain and anguish, so why not African Americans? You keep on being told that it's different today. That white people today didn't bolt chains around your neck. But what if all of those banks and businesses, that won't give you a job or a loan today, had their start by bolting chains around your forefather's neck. Any connection to the present? It's a complex issue, but everything's not black-and-white. Or is it? Related:
Japanese Internment History
U.S. hosts talks on Nazi slave reparations
Slavery Reparations Resource Page
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