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

Intelligence Squared

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The Biggest Lies in the West

The wealth that was derived from slavery is still with us to day. The biggest lie in the west, will tell you, is that when they encountered africa, asia, the other parts of the world, they were advanced. Because of this advancement, we are able to have capitalism and what wey call so called civilization. In 14 92, europe was coming out of a dark age, and was the only place on the planet that actually was in a dark age at that period of time. And one of the mary ways that europe an, the west became rich was through the enslavement of african people. This isn't money that has gone away. Its money

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