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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody alive today perpetrated the exploitation of slavery on blacks, or has any responsibility for it.  And, ALL Americans today are the ones living the legacy of it - to include the supposed "benefit.[/quote]

If you benefit from it, as the entire country does, you share responsibility for it. You just don't want to share the benefit and lessen it for yourself and your future generations. And many alive today perpetrated and in some ways still perpetrate the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws -- it's watered down, yes, but it still exists.

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This nation's history and present is woven from a great many threads, and slavery is one of them.

Yes, it has its dark chapters.

But, the fact is that nobody can fix them  there is no repairing it or righting the wrong.  And, any Americans born today have no more blame, responsibility, benefit, or shame than the next one, regardless of race.

The only thing we can to is remember the past for the purposes of teaching it so that it doesn't happen ever again.  Yet for all the talk of our prior slavery of Africans, we TODAY continue to perpetuate slavery elsewhere, and that includes AAs (and ALL Americans, I am not singling out AAs, just pointing out that they are included) who are themselves responsible for slavery RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT, TODAY, in their choices of products and brands.  This is no joke, this is dead serious - assess your own footprint and impact on modern-day slavery via this website:  http://slaveryfootprint.org/   [/quote]

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