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Old 08-22-2001, 12:24 AM
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Post Slave Reparations

How do u feel about this? Should we be given reparations for slavery? Or should we just let it go?

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Slave Reparations

Debating the Wages of Slavery
Paying African-Americans reparations is an idea as old as the republic. So why has it suddenly become the hottest civil-rights issue of the day? The anatomy of a crusade

By Vern E. Smith
NEWSWEEK


Aug. 27 issue — How many of you have heard of reparations?” activist-attorney Adjoa A. Aiyetoro asks a crowd of 200 African-Americans gathered at Agape Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago on a recent Saturday afternoon. About 10 hands go up. Undeterred, she explains the concept: in recent years, Holocaust victims, World War II-era Japanese-Americans and Aboriginal groups in Australia and New Zealand have all been successful in extracting compensation from governments and corporations for the legal and moral wrongs committed against them. Are the descendants of America’s slaves any less deserving of restitution? The crowd erupts with shouts of approval and applause.
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