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[PurpleDaze112]

we talked about this in my history class. do you think black people should get reparations for slavery?

I actually do think so, and for these reasons.

1. they were PROMISED
2. slavery was an institution that not only displaced a people, but destroyed their culture and history
3. it would help the economy

reparations would cause each person of african descent (about 36 million in america)to get at least $10k. That would lead to new houses being purchased, cars bought, and educations paid for. Small businesses would be started too. And after all, Jews got reparations from the german gov't because of the holocaust, native americans get money for college from the feds, adn Japanese americans too. Slavery wasn't formally apologized for until bill clinton.

[BamBamBoogie]

Well I believe that it would be completely unfair to give every African-American person $10k for something that did not directly affect them. It would almost seem as though you're pitying[spc] them. If we did do this, then we would have to give 10k to everyone else whose civil rights were not protected (its not just black people).

Now I do agree that those who were actually alive back in the 1900s who were actually affected by the negative circumstances caused by the U.S. government's negligence and/or atrocities should have been given some type of reparation to help them began their lives on a more positive note. (Was that a runon sentence? )