re: Watch two Australian news commentators skewer Don Lemon's recent remarks about reparations

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It'll be a cold day in hell before I return to the motherland.

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I mean I wouldn't want to go back to where my ancestors came from either, and that was Germany

I just don't get it. These folks wouldn't even exist if the tribes their ancestors were fighting had simply taken the alternate course of killing them outright.

People will say "slavery wouldn't exist without a buyer," but the reality is that without a buyer these people wouldn't exist either. The African tribes who sold people into slavery would have killed their ancestors if there wasn't a slave trade.