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Some moron will bring up reparations about once a month.
There has never been any serious traction on paying reparations. It's a talking point for the extreme left and right of both parties.
Besides that fact, America has already paid reparations to American Indians, Japanese, and Holocaust survivors. I hardly saw anyone blink an eye when that happened.
I don't support reparations, but it seems there's a deep underlying message when it comes to reparations for slavery coming from both sides of the political aisle.
It was a hard era for humans in general. People were much tougher black and white. I’m just thankful I was born when I was, as you should be.
Depending on where you are in this world, it’s STILL a hard era for humans. Ask the people in Syria or Iraq. People are as tough as circumstances demand them to be.
So the fact that the epoch may have been tough is no excuse for wanton murder, rape, torture, and ripping families apart and selling off their children.
Regardless, it wasn’t as bad as abortion. Think of the millions of aborted souls who never got the chance to breath the air or feel the sun on their faces.
Abortion isn’t relevant to this topic.
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Originally Posted by skeddy
many were like members of the family.
Frequently they pleaded with local officials for permission to remain where they had long resided, and sometimes they simply ignored the law and settled on worthless, abandoned land near their former master's plantation. Some even refused to leave the old homestead and adamantly claimed it as their rightful home despite the stunned objections of their former owners.
No Slave was ever like a member of the family. That’s not even possible.
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A better question would have been what was the percentage of people that actually owned slaves. Whether the slaves were treated well or horribly isn’t a valid question. Too many today believe if you’re ancestors were white and in USA during the time slavery was legal then they either owned slaves or believed slavery should remain a legal institution.
There were 4 million slaves by the end of slavery. That means a helluva lot of people were participants in the institution.
Frequently they pleaded with local officials for permission to remain where they had long resided, and sometimes they simply ignored the law and settled on worthless, abandoned land near their former master's plantation. Some even refused to leave the old homestead and adamantly claimed it as their rightful home despite the stunned objections of their former owners.
Of course telling a slave to "skat now , you're free" was like telling them you now have no place to eat nor sleep today. Freedom requires the kind of resources a newly freed slave didn't have at the moment of freedom.
Depending on where you are in this world, it’s STILL a hard era for humans. Ask the people in Syria or Iraq. People are as tough as circumstances demand them to be.
So the fact that the epoch may have been tough is no excuse for wanton murder, rape, torture, and ripping families apart and selling off their children.
I can’t imagine not having any control over your own life. Without a doubt a terrible existence. You for sure have ancestors who lived through that and I believe I do maybe farther back.
We’re talking about a time when people were whipped in public for adultery or fornication which was simply being suspected of sexual contact outside of marriage. People sold their incorrigible boys into apprenticeships at age 11 where their childhood was over and they worked until age 21 for little or no pay and endured abuse.
I’m not saying slavery wasn’t terrible but the slaves were not alone to abuse in those harsh times.
China's social credits system is a Progressive's wet dream.
oh ffs gtfo with that bs
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