re: Slavery reparations- currently $27 is on the table. Would you pay?

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Slavery reparations- currently $27 is on the table. Would you pay?

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Furthermore

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Slavery reparations

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I'd like to think that I would have been vehemently anti-slavery had I been raised in the early 19th or 18th century, but it is impossible to tell. The social norms of the south, well, normalized slavery.

As humans, we like to think there is some kind of inherent goodness in people that allows them to see when true injustice takes place, but that just isn't the case. People find comfort living within the same type of system in which they were raised.

Case in point, slavery throughout human history. Some of the earliest writings (mesopotamia) we have on record make reference to slaves. Egypt, Mongolia, Rome, India, China, England, Greece, France, Persia, Germany and likely every other nation/state with any kind of power had slaves at multiple points in their existence. I can definitely see how people of the 1800's could argue their case and convince themselves it is ok.

From a modern perspective, the Americans of that time were immoral and cruel due to practicing slavery, but we can't look at a moment in history from a modern perspective. If we don't think of something in the context of the time in which it happened, then we will never understand it and will make grand assumptions.

So, with all of that considered, I don't see how we can make a logical case for reparations for this group, but not that group. I would be willing to bet a good deal of money that a good 99% of the world population has slavery somewhere in their ancestry.

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if it's only $27, seems like you're getting off cheap here.

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It's $27 per student, per semester.

Also there are only 4 students that would qualify to receive these benefits.

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"It's unjust to compel 7,000-plus people to pay for the university's historical sins,"

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~190k spread between 4 students. Per semester. Paid for by people who had nothing to do with slavery to people who were not slaves.

No. frick them.

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if it's only $27, seems like you're getting off cheap here.

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I would gladly pay it if they would shut the frick up from now to forever.

Nope. One can only guess how misappropriated this could turn out.

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. One can only guess how misappropriated this could turn out.

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not if they get someone with integrity to oversee it, like Sharpton or Jackson

Good Lord, can you imagine that?

I brought my workers lunch last week, four of them are black. The cost was $52.75 ... so I’m paid up plus some