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Reparations from the Romans and Arabs

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 21 Sep 22 2:17 PM | 40 view(s)
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We British have previously been enslaved by the Romans and the Arabs. Can they give us some money, please?

Also, think of the poor Slavs. Please can whoever enslaved them - the Venetians among them - give them some money?

Also, can the Mongols please give some money to the East Europeans, Central Asians and Chinese people they enslaved?

And would the Spanish please give some money to the indigenous peoples of the Americas?

Also, could the people from the West Coast of Africa please give money to Genoa on the grounds they enslaved some of their sailors who were attempting a circumnavigation around the year 1300?

etc.

In case no one understands the point, slavery was a universal phenomenon until the late eighteenth century. Everyone's going to owe money to everyone using the reparations model. Totally silly.

Happy to give money to any American still living who was once a slave and who was transported to America in a British ship before 1833 (when the British entirely abolished slavery). That person is at least 189 years old. But to their descendants? Nope. They are in the same boat as everyone else. Nine generations is plenty of time for a family to improve its condition.


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Re: The Racist History of the Democratic Party 1864-2020
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Wed, 21 Sep 22 1:23 PM 		Msg. 47165 of 54818

ps By the way, I've said to clo previously that I find the racial politics of the US corrosive, but probably not in the way you think.

I hate the idea that anyone should attempt to corral people of a particular race or ethnicity into their party. I don't care if you mean black people (the current Dem policy) or white people (the GOP's famous southern strategy). All that happens as a result of doing so is that the party eventually becomes beholden to a racially slanted view of the world. Hence, the absurd reparations ideas espoused by some Dems and the corrupt gerrymandering of the GOP.

Unlike many Americans, I'm not obsessed by race. Nor do I see racism wherever I look in America. Most of the Americans I have met were pretty much like folks everywhere. They try to treat the people they meet much like one another. But I'll agree with anyone who tells me I haven't met Americans from every part of the country. And so there may be local issues of which I am not aware.

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