Are Black People Embarrassed When Politicians Suggest Reparations? Considering the Odds are all People have Ancestors who were Slaves at One Point?

Leweman

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Do only black people matter when it comes to slavery. If so, why? Seems like a racist take.
 
I don't understand how you didn't understand.

Black people are not embarrassed. They want the reparations, and they don't care if they truly are slave descendants or not.
I don't think most black people think this at all.
 

  • 6800 B.C. The world’s first city-state emerges in Mesopotamia. Land ownership and the early stages of technology bring war—in which enemies are captured and forced to work: slavery.
  • 2575 B.C. Temple art celebrates the capture of slaves in battle. Egyptians capture slaves by sending special expeditions up the Nile River.
  • 550 B.C. The city-state of Athens uses as many as 30,000 slaves in its silver mines.
  • 120 A.D. Roman military campaigns capture slaves by the thousands. Some estimate the population of Rome is more than half slave.
  • 500 Anglo-Saxons enslave the native Britons after invading England.
  • 1000 Slavery is a normal practice in England’s rural, agricultural economy, as destitute workers place themselves and their families in a form of debt bondage to landowners.
  • 1380 In the aftermath of the Black Plague, Europe’s slave trade thrives in response to a labor shortage. Slaves pour in from all over the continent, the Middle East, and North Africa.
  • 1444 Portuguese traders bring the first large cargo of slaves from West Africa to Europe by sea—establishing the Atlantic slave trade.
  • 1526 Spanish explorers bring the first African slaves to settlements in what would become the United States. These first African-Americans stage the first known slave revolt in the Americas.
  • 1550 Slaves are depicted as objects of conspicuous consumption in much Renaissance art.
  • 1641 Massachusetts becomes the first British colony to legalize slavery.

  • ~S~
 

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