Except...Adam and Eve and their Garden are a fairy tale and slavery actually
happened. Human beings sold like cattle. Women raped and impregnated by
their "owners". Men and women brutalized and murdered, or worked until
death. Children taken from their parents and sold to the highest bidder. You know, the part of American history that certain people tend to gloss over, or ignore completely.
Since I'm a reasonable person, if someone can convince me that all the atrocities against African
Americans stopped with the Emancipation
Proclamation and the 13th, 14th, 15th and 24th Amendments, and that we live
now in a "color blind", just society, with equal opportunity for all,
good schools and fair housing for everyone, then I'll agree that the idea of reparations is absurd.
Until then, do
us all a favor and keep the fairy tales for Sunday school.
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