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Originally Posted by Rochard
I fail to understand why anyone thinks we should pay reparations for slavery. While this ranks up there in the top of five of the worst things mankind has ever done, the United States should not be singled out as if we created it or thought of the idea. This was a world wide problem, and the United States went to war with itself to end it.
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Thank you. Also, black people were not the only ones kept as slaves. White people of various native countries, particularly Ireland, were kept as slaves right here in the USA and in the west Indies. I'm Irish, so does that mean I get reparations too? Of course not, and I wouldn't expect it.