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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By the same logic, the only people who should pay/be punished for such a reparation are the slave owner's descendants. Why would anyone else be liable for this?[/quote]

Everyone in the US now benefits from the fact that slavery and Jim Crow existed, just like everyone in the US now benefits from the fact that Native Americans were pushed west and then onto reservations and then those were broken up. The economic and political power and stability of this country in 2024 would not exist without those things having happened. The United States—the same, ongoing country/government we have—a democracy, by the way—did those things. They are in our founding documents which we still refer to. It doesn’t matter who owned who, as citizens of the US we all own this country and its history. [/quote]
That's false. You have to prove it.[/quote]

Prove…that the land the US is on belonged to Native American tribes, over 500 of which still exist? That the Industrial Revolution in the US was financed with wealth derived directly or indirectly from slave labor? 
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