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The Sunday Debate: Should the West pay Reparations for Slavery?

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The West Should Pay for Reparations for Slavery

Catherine barbelsing is a descendant of slaves, slave owners and indentured laborers. She says the debate isn't about whether or not slavery was bad or good. It's about whether the west should pay reparations for slavery? Which west ought to pay? The portuguese who brought the slaves? And what if the african people who sold their brothers and sisters in exchange for guns, allowing them to grow their own kingdoms? Then there's brazil. Is it part of the west? Of the 12 million africans that were shipped across the atlantic, bBrazil received nearly five million of them. So why are we only discussing whether theWest should pay for rep

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