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Richard Luthmann's avatar

The reparations debate collapses when history is reduced to a morality play with one villain, one victim, and one checkbook. Slavery was not a uniquely American invention. It was a human institution, practiced across civilizations, including by some Indigenous nations. The Oklahoma Historical Society notes that slavery among the Five Tribes was abolished by new treaties after the Civil War, and current Freedmen-descendant citizenship fights show those legacies remain unresolved. So spare us the kindergarten history. If the multiculturalists want serious moral accounting, then account seriously: tribes, empires, Africans, Europeans, Arabs, Democrats, Republicans, all of it. History is receipts, not slogans.

Bruce Eden's avatar

Reparations? How about the ancestors of the 400,000 Northern (Union) soldiers killed during the Civil War in attempting to end slavery????? Does any one of those families of white Northern soldiers get reparations for giving up their lives to abolish slavery. The entire reparations argument is reverse racism.

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