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Originally Posted by wireframe
Wow. She's only 65 years old today. It's easy to think of these things as belonging to an ancient past. It's pretty eye-opening to see a picture like that and place it in context.
It reminds me that the last residential school in Canada closed in 1996. That is so messed up.
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It was 155 years ago that slavery ended. For context, that is only like 2 consecutive Harrison Fords or Iron Sheiks.
When you consider that when slavery ended, there were 4 million people thrown into the body politic with no provisions. Most of them were illiterate with little training in anything but the lowest paying jobs.
There is still a considerable amount of wealth in the U.S. that was acquired through slavery and the subsequent underpaid black labour, and conversely a lot of poverty from slavery. This is why reparations are not an unreasonable proposition. It wouldn't need to be direct cash handouts, but rather things like interest-free loans for entrepreneurs and forgivable government scholarships. Or just more investment in black communities in general.