Anti Reparations
As we all know, there are deeds in this world that are viewed as evil, and dehumanizing on any level rape, murder and slavery, the holding of people to do work against their will. Slavery in the United States ended more than 150 years ago, with the end of the civil war, and Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation.
There is a movement in this country to give the descendents of slaves' reparations, or compensation because their forefathers suffered through the horrors of slavery. Unfortunately, the reparations movement is seriously flawed.
In 1880 and again in 1960, there were two gigantic inflows of immigration into the United States. America today is a multiethnic nation, and almost all Americans have no direct (or indirect) connection to slaves based on the interracial and constant mixing of races. How should we decide who should receive reparations? Should you receive reparations if you are half black? A quarter black? One sixteenth black?......
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