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The Sunday Debate: The West Should Pay Reparations For Slavery

Intelligence Squared

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Reparations Are Not Helpful to the People One Is Helping

It's bizarre to suggest that human beings should inherit the outrage of their parents. In America, in the main, it was the Democrats who owned slaves and enforced Jim Crow laws. It was also the Democrats who founded the Clu Klux Klan. We do not inherit the sins of our fathers. Giving people lump sums of money does not work.

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