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stoner22

 Everyday I agree more and more with reparations
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they ate people. they tortured people. they forced people fight to the death. they raped people. they took peoples' teeth. but "being a slave is better than dying"
112 upvotes, 17 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "they ate people. they tortured people. they forced people fight to the death. they raped people. they took peoples' teeth. but "being a slave is better than dying""
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Reparations would make sense… if anyone who directly profited or engaged in slavery we’re still alive. But they’re not. My grandmother’s grandmother was just a little girl when she heard the canons firing at a nearby battlefield in the civil war. We are so far removed that the reparations may help those families but they would only serve as a punitive measure against people who are completely disconnected from the objective crime that was chattel slavery.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4w

mind you, the private industrial prison slavery complex still targets and brutalizes Black people. the people who directly profit and engage in slavery are completely fine and well today, in addition to the descendants of chattel slavery having the benefits of generational wealth because europeans were never chattel slaves, nor were they ever barred from wage labor

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Anonymous replying to -> _orangutan 4w

slavery isn’t even illegal in the US, and people think we’re so far removed from it

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Anonymous replying to -> _orangutan 4w
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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4w

I’d like to point out that a large portion of the regional ruling class in the south has much of their current wealth because of the slave holdings of their ancestors, which means that much of their wealth comes from the confederacy because the confederacy was a nation born out of the greed and racism of the slave holding gentry and seeing as the confederacy was never truly dismantled and defeated the wealth and power of the ruling class was and is still in effect

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Anonymous replying to -> stoner22 4w

I would be interested to see a rigorous study on that. Having wealthy grandparents certainly it makes you more likely to be wealthy yourself onl 10% of people with grandparents who where in the wealthiest 1% ever reach that themselves. So I think there is some reason to doubt that current wealth is very correlated with slave owning ancestors especially when you factor in that a lot of plantation homes where simply burned down. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w33355/w33355.pdf

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