Yes; we deserve reparations-for at least the following reasons:
1)payment to our people for taking us(the young and healthy) away from our land and our roots-against our will.
2)for our share of all of the gains of those corporations that got their initial financial foundation from the free labor of slaves.
3)for the countless lives lost during The Middle Passage
4)for all of the blindings, dislimberings, tongue-extractions, etc. that the slaveowners did to us.
5)for breaking the promise of 40 acres and a mule to all of us
6)for all of the free railroad labor we provided
7)for hanging any/all literate slaves
8)for forcing us to defend the constitution while never including us in it.
9)for making us hate anything black
10)for making everybody else in the world hate and fear black
11)because you paid the Japanese for encampment during ww2, and the Jews for the Holocaust.
I can think of many other reasons for reparations. I am really saddened that more of us aren't understanding what it's all about; and aren't asking our representatives to push for it.
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