There’s Nothing Stopping You Now: Coleman Hughes on Race and Poverty in America | GoodFellows: John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster | Hoover Institution
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The Principle of Reparations
My position is that reparations should have been paid two freed slaves in 1865. Thereabouts during reconstruction. Once you have a situation where I think I'm the six or seven greats descendant of slaves, I should not get reparations. It's a fantasy to suggest that I know exactly how my life would have been different had my great, great, great,. great grandfather not been a slave. That's the stuff of the butterfly effect in Hollywood. So reparations should be paid to freed slaves, haves to their children, not to their long, long run descendants.
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