Thread: Do you think it's time the Democratic Party make Reparations part of its original platform?
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Old 02-14-2016, 06:09 PM  
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But what about Historic injustice?

I'm not advocating a position for or against reparations. What I would like to bring up is the fact there is an increasingly vocal and sizable element on the left side of American politics that is saying the TIME IS NOW for black reparations.

Do they have point?
Why would the time be now? I'm pretty sure that everyone that was a slave or owned a slave during the time that slavery was legal in this country is dead now. Maybe the time was in 1865 when it became illegal.

So to answer your question... No, I do not think they have a point.
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