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Originally posted by Phasad1913
From my understanding of what apartheid was, it was much more closely related to the racial oppression that black americans recieved during the pre-civil rights era/civil rights era and many more black americans who lived and suffered through that could relate to the plea of the black africans who suffered through apartheid so it was a more immediate outcry. Basically, there was more of an identification to this system then there was/is to the whole issue of slavery.
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If that is the case and the African American community can't identify with slavery and its effects then I never ever want to hear a single word about reparations.
-Rudey