Beto O'Rourke calling for Reparations is a big mostake

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39. Of course it should'nt be a campaign issue but it's silly to think anyone who came...

later or even those who have always been here are going to dig in their pockets and pay for it. There are many institutions and corporations still extant that participated and made money in the slave trade (research Brown University for example. And there are many others). Why not hold them accountable? And why not hold the US Government that legalized such inhumanity accountable?

Here's a graphic way to understand it. Millions of enslaved people had their labor stolen from them. Just using the principle of compounding, where money doubles every seven years, that uncompensated, dawn-to-dusk labor of miliions over 250 years, and we won't even include the 100 years of jim crow, if all those wages were calculated and compounded over 250 years, if that had to be paid it would bust the US Treasury so programs of job training, college tuition, small business grants, community infrastructure improvements and such is a real bargain. It's about finally making an attempt to right a wrong.

If people came here after all this happened doesn't erase that it happened.