GoLocalProv | Whitcomb: Just Don't Call Them 'Reparations'; Back to Work; Summer Agoraphobia; Cash for Corridor
But seeming to bill people living now specifically because of the offenses of others, most of them long dead, could widen racial discord. And there’s no end to where you can go with history’s crimes. (Seek reparations from the descendants of African tribal chiefs who kidnapped people and sold them to Western slave traders?) I would guess that most white Americans do not feel guilty about what some of their ancestors may have done against Black people, much as they regret the history. To create a “reparations’’ system would embitter many of them. And beware of extreme “id...
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