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Originally Posted by freebeard
Au contraire
I'm neither a slave nor an enslaver. To me it's an interesting intellectual question. How to disentangle the competing interests, so that everyone has the best possible outcome.
What would you suggest we do?
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"How to disentangle the competing interests, so that everyone has the best possible outcome" is something that we might discuss, after the obvious (below) is acknowledged by you two. Without acknowledgment, the "But how can it be done fairly?" comments and questions seem like thinly veiled attempts to deny the damage done and/or claim that reparations shouldn't happen.
Chattel slaves and their descendants were obviously screwed over (to put it very mildly) for centuries, and reparations are long overdue.
The same goes for Native Americans. And probably Mexico, too. Then there's the list of peoples and sovereign nations wronged by the US, which is long. The first thing to do would be for the US to stop the wronging.