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Originally posted by Bamboozled
AchtungBaby, thank you for your honesty. I really don't want to turn librasoul's thread into another version of the "40 acres and a mule" thread, so I urge you to follow this link http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...450#post249450 and read the first post on the page (by me) that offers a reparations analogy. After reading it, I'd like to know if you stand by your opinion. Maybe you should PM me instead of posting it here.
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I read it, and it's a good analogy for getting people to understand the situation. But I still stand by my opinion. You could compensate the woman for her work, but what about emotional distress and all the other things that she had to put up with? How do you put a price on that? Even if someone tried, we could never get anyone to settle on it. Then there's the fact that in your analogy, the woman herself would be compensated for her own work, whereas in the actual situation, none of the people directly involved are alive today. If we were going to pay reparations, we're about 100 years too late. And that's really sad.
But I really respect you [Bamboozled] for not yelling at me like I was afraid people would. I was just trying to be honest, and I really don't want to offend anyone. Where I'm from, people still ride around with Confederate flags on their trucks and my family has had some KKK members, so I'm probably in the minority in what I think even though I might sound a little on the racist side to the rest of the world.