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In reply to the discussion: Should the US provide reparations for slavery and Jim Crow? [View all]GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Inscribed in the Constitution every state lived under. It's quite possible more money from slavery was made for the north than the south. All those textile mills in the New England were spinning cotton raised by slaves. And the shipping magnates of new England in the mid Atlantic states got their start transporting slaves from Africa.
And taking out money from the poorest part of the country with the highest percentage of African Americans hardly seems the way to help the descendants of slaves. But you already know that.
Your post is really about the fact that the south is the region of the country that has prevented your beloved candidate from winning the nomination. The irony is it was the African-American voters that made that happen.