whitesagainstwhiteness: White people today say that they never had anything to do with slavery, beca
whitesagainstwhiteness: White people today say that they never had anything to do with slavery, because it happened so long ago. They use this as an argument against paying reparations. But the truth is that white people today have inherited the social and economic wealth that was created by black slave laborers during the development of America. The truth is that America owes its formation to the black slaves, without whom it would not have been able to prosper. Why else would white plantation operators in the South, who in their day were the wealthiest 1% in the country, start a war to keep their black slaves working? The truth is that all the international wealth brought in by these high-production plantations, is a direct result of unpaid black slaves who were the means to that production. This is why reparations are owed and deserved. -- source link
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