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Pastimes : Slavery Reparations
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To: Neeka who wrote (32)8/21/2002 4:59:30 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 203
 
Sure is. My great grandpappy volunteered for the Union Army and was captured and imprisoned in Andersonville. That destroyed his health and he died a year after being freed by invading Union troops.

Now it seems to me that since he fought to free to these people, I should get an exemption from reparations.

OTOH, I think everyone should. No living American Black has ever been a slave. And no living American non-Black has ever owned a slave. And the Constitution specifically bans ex post facto laws and bills of attainder, which means the crimes of the fathers cannot be visited onto the sons.
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