Do you want to have your life, your property, your earnings, everything you have worked for, taken away from you, to pay for the errors of many generations before you?
To make reparation to fellow citizens in order to go forward together in harmony? Like a shot. Reparations to Maori, from whom I never stole any land, are being made in this country. I agree with that policy. You can pretend blacks were not disadvantaged if you like, but you'll only be fooling yourself.
I don't know if the entire US economy was built on the back of unpaid labor. Could be true. Lot of room for argument. The economies of some states clearly did.
What do you think the manufacturies of the North used for raw materials? Cotton imported from India?[/QUOdusE]
U were disadvantaged from the start but it had nothing to do with slavery.