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Originally Posted by Byte1
There has already been reparations in our country. Affirmative action comes to mind.
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Affirmative Action probably did help some, and only about 100 years after the end of the Civil War. Hard to figure why that wasn't enough...
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Originally Posted by Byte1
But, how do you figure out who gets what? After all, many former slaves received confiscated land in the South after the Civil War. I would think that everyone having the same Constitutional rights today should be enough to satisfy most, without having certain groups treated better than others, just based on color, gender or sexual preference.
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Some former slaves received confiscated land, however "Almost all land allocated during the war was restored to its pre-war white owners."
Forty acres and a mule - Wikipedia
I'm unsure exactly which groups you feel are being treated
better than others...
