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Originally posted by gothweb
Affirmative action is not the same thing as Slave Reparations.
Affirmative action is, in effect, hiring quotas to help overcome the economic hardship and suffering inherent in the second-class-citizen status that followed the era of slavery.
Slave reparations is the silly idea that people should be paid cash by the descendents of the people who enslaved their ancestors, and people who happen to have the same skin color as the people who did so but are totally unrelated to them.
(For instance, most of my ancestors were either French Canadian farmers or 19th century German immigrants-- not a lot of slaves owned by my ancestors.)
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I'm still waiting for Italy to pay up for what the Roman Empire did to my ancestors!
