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

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Should the West Pay Reparations for Slavery?

It would be impossible to make reparations work in any sensible or practical way. Giving people lump sums of money does not work, he says. Reparations might relieve white people of their guilt but it will do little else. Rather than give a man a fish, it is always better to teach him how to fish. All giving the fish does is make the giver feel better.

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