America Has Never Truly Atoned For Slavery. John Conyers Has Pressed the Issue for Nearly 30 Years.

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2. Why you should is because it's the right thing to do.

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For hundreds of years enslaved African Americans worked dawn to dusk and were not paid.

Their labor was stolen and this country became rich because of it.

Anyone who runs a business knows that wages are the biggest item of overhead. If you don't have to pay it, any business will do well.

I'm not talking about cutting checks to individuals. Small business grants, college tuition, job training, community centers and programs, healthcare—those kind of things to show that the country at least made an effort to atone for the centuries of stolen labor during slavery and the jim crow period that followed and the racism that still persists today (how many innocent, unarmed blackmen have been gunned down by coward, racist cops in the last couple of year since cell phone video has become available, not to mention all the killings that took place before cameras were everywhere?).

If those stolen wages had to be paid back, with the principle of compounding, even our treasury couldn't pay the trillions it would amount to so the items I listed in the paragraph above would be an huge bargain.