All The Times White People Got Reparations For No Longer Enslaving People

Black People In America Qualified If They Left The Country Forever

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When talk of reparations comes up, there are lots of reasons many white people are opposed to the idea.

1. There Is No Single Group Clearly Responsible For The Crime Of Slavery

2. There Is No One Group That Benefitted Exclusively From Its Fruits

3. Only A Tiny Minority Of White Americans Ever Owned Slaves, And Others Gave Their Lives To Free Them

4. America Today Is A Multi-Ethnic Nation, and Most Americans Have No Connection (Direct Or Indirect) To Slavery

5. The Historical Precedents Used To Justify The Reparations Claim Do Not Apply, And The Claim Itself Is Based On Race Not Injury

6. The Reparations Argument Is Based On The Unfounded Claim That All African-American Descendants of Slaves Suffer From The Economic Consequences Of Slavery And Discrimination

7. The Reparations Claim Is One More Attempt To Turn African-Americans Into Victims. It Sends A Damaging Message To The African-American Community.

8. Reparations To African Americans Have Already Been Paid

9. W…