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...Not racist to basic critical thinking. Slavery existed in the United States for just 76 years. The detestable practice was outlawed over 1.5 centuries ago.
There is nobody alive today who was a slave. There is nobody alive today who ever owned a slave. Those slavery years were a sad chapter of our history, but there is no way we can relive the situation.
Things cannot be made whole by punishing those who had nothing to do with the practice, and were not living during that period of history.
As moamonkey said, many whites were sent to the colonies as indentured workers. It is likely my own first ancestor to arrive in the "new world", arrived as a POW, indentured person. Still, I don't expect or want any "reparations".
BTW: over 110,000 Union troops were killed, trying to free the slaves... who pays their descendant's their "reparations".
Many more were killed fighting the Germans and Japanese, do we go after their respective governments?
..And how about North Korea, China and the Republic of Vietnam?
If this stupid ball is started to rolling..where does it stop ?