RE: Retribution for Slavery or Racism? Can this even be done?
July 25, 2013 at 1:48 pm
(This post was last modified: July 25, 2013 at 1:54 pm by The Reality Salesman01.)
(July 25, 2013 at 1:46 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: There cannot be any retribution since the victims are dead by now.
What can be done is to take the historical responsiblity of creating a egalitarian society.
Sidenote: There is more slavery today in a world in which it is outlawed, then there was whilest it was still legal.
I'm glad you were able to read what I wrote without taking offense. The latter statement you made carries a lot of truth. This is a tough subject to comment on, I just hear a lot of bias driven opinions surrounding it dailty (both black and white) and it annoys the hell out of me.
(July 25, 2013 at 1:47 pm)whateverist Wrote: Insofar as slavery helped build the wealth of the nation and insofar as it did so at great costs to the enslaved people and their descendants, I think we owe it to them to at least maintain a society with true upward mobility and opportunity. Personally, in recognition of the fact that we don't have that, I would be in support of efforts to give the descendants of slaves a leg up at least in regards to access to college and financial support as needed to make use of it.
I don't have a problem with that specifically. I just don't see how that can be offered without the segregation implied by the requirements to qualify for them. Especially since both, the original perpetrators and victims are long since gone. We should be trying to move forward. Innocent people repaying relatives of victims seems to be a wasted effort if progression is the goal. Moving forward means being aware of the past and trying to improve upon it. What we're doing seems to be something quite different.
