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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (237573)	7/23/2007 7:47:09 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (1) of 281500

>Your racist ideology, to really lay it on thick, means that Obama and Condoleezza [one of them with no slave ancestors in the USA] would collect cash from some Jewish immigrant whose family was killed in Dachau and from some poor Vietnamese immigrant who lost their family to napalm in Vietnam.> No reparations are perfect. When Merck gets sued for a bad drug and has to settle a class action suit, all new employees of Merck take a hit for the mistakes or crimes of other employees who may have left the company. You are confusing ethics with practically of distribution. Just because there may not be a practical or fair way to provide reparations to descendents of slaves, does not mean that a theft did not happen. Actually, I am not trying to provide excuses for India. You are trying to provide excuses for the British. That the British (and their Indian administrators) did not do enough to prevent famines when they were in power, is a fact. So they have to be ascribed some blame for their negligence when it happened. The British were certainly decent rulers overall, otherwise such a large number of subjects would not have let them exist in power. -Arun

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