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Originally Posted by the ikara cult
I hate this idea that people around today are responsible for what governments did in the past. As far as reparations for slavery go the best thing we can do is support the continent where the original crime was committed.
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The responsibility is not necessarily financial, it should be spiritual, intellectual. If Rob can honestly sit down and argue with me about the good intentions of the Founding Fathers and that America is build on good principles, despite 400 years of blood shed and injustice to the contrary, then we are not taking responsibility. We are the descendents of this mess, this mess is our herritage, we can't simply forget about it or ignore because it is unpleasant. We must deal with it, or it carries on as ever, festering, until it errupts again and again, and brothers and sisters, there is a lot of residual violence, racism, and poverty festering and errupting across America as a DIRECT result of the past mistakes..
This is why we must openly address these issues of our history, and make the necessary ammends in our hearts and minds, acknowledging the truth, without having to flinch and through out a bunch of excuses, cop-outs, and stuttering "buts" into the mix.