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Aug. 18th, 2002 02:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bzarcher"African Americans rally on D.C. for Slavery Reparations."
For -possibly- the first 60, maybe even 70 years after the E. P., I could see this.
Maybe even an even 100 years.
But why? What -possible- good can it do now? None of the offending or offended are alive. Their family fortunes were mostly destroyed by the War, or by Reconstruction. Even if not then, then certainly by 1930.
What -possible- good can this do? One of the people involved is quoted as "America still owes Blacks for what they have endured."
I seriously wonder if that kind of attitude is just setting up more and more racial battles.
What are -any- of us owed? Race irregardless?
America gives us land between our ass and the sea.
America gives the possibility of gaining basic services.
The rest is supposed to be up to us.
Whatever happened to earning things, rather than demanding them?
