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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings
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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (7670)3/25/2002 10:13:30 AM
From: Augustus Gloop  Read Replies (1) of 14610
 
<<Now if I own stock in a company that some research prick determines may have profited by slavery I need to be punished.>>

Another "Get Whitey" suit?

I don't see the logic either.

1) It was 140 years ago

2) None of the people suing were directly affected as none of them were slaves.

The result is I don't think any sort of rational financial settlement can be reached as far as its true societal cost in todays dollars. It would seem to me that a more logical lawsuit would be to sue their own relatives of today for occupying 50% of the jails when the "African American" culture itself only represents 12% of the population. That is a cost that can be measured and quantified!
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