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'Do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial' (www.rawstory.com)

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[–] sadreality@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While vast majority were "white"... There were others who owned slaves.

All of their families should be held accountable and their profits and wealth should be dislodged to pay reperations to the decedants.

Allowing successors to keep these gains is a crime in of itself.

[–] trias10@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How could you even track accounting profits that far back in time to repay today? What if the family descendants are poor today? (They lost everything in the Great Depression, as an example)

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Funny thing about money is that it is all traceable. I am not going to act like it is easy but it is not impossible

Sure if money is gone, you can't get blood from a stone... But many families who made money are still ruling us.

Same thing in Germany with families who profited from slave labor during Nazi regimes...