Original Ape I completely agree with you. The payment of reparations will directly benefit the grandmother and grandfathers of our communities. It saddens me that the young people (under 30) are so out of touch with the history of our struggle. The Slave Trade was nothing but a free enterprise, free labor, no wage system. The ENTIRE United States benefited from this system and yes, elderly African Americans should receive some type of compensation for their suffrage. Because the parents and granparents of OUR Grandmothers and Grandfathers experienced all of these terrible sufferings. We cannot minimize the treatment of these Americans from Africa as something that happened so long ago and is lost in history. The fact that it happened is terrible enough.
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