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Don’t forget the role of Africans in enslaving and selling other Africans.  How shall they pay reparations?[/quote]

I never understand this argument.

Reparations people: Modern-day Americans are still benefiting from the results of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
You: Well, Africans were involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade too, so there, ha![/quote]

What about the descendants of the Africans who profited from the enslavement, mistreatment and sale of other Africans?  Haven’t they benefitted from the deplorable human trafficking by their ancestors?[/quote]

Why are you yelling at me about breaking the lamp? Larla was involved in the lamp-breaking too!

(In the bigger picture - please explain how modern-day Africans are benefiting from the results of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.)[/quote]

It doesn’t matter. No one who isn’t a huge racist with ulterior motives denies that the US Federal Government wronged enslaved Africans. All this whataboutism nonsense with Arab and African slave traders is a pathetic and transparent attempt to distract from that reality. Don’t engage with them as if they were arguing in good faith.[/quote]

So who would get reparations?  Descendants of Caribbean Africans?  Would mixed-race individuals get half, or less, of a reparations share?  Should someone have to prove that they are descendants of slaves?  And WTF exactly does this have to do with gentrification in DC?  After all, African-Americans moved into neighborhoods that had once been predominantly Irish, Italian or European Jewish immigrant.[/quote]

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