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Would it be racist of me to to suggest that if they have “lost their national and ethnic identity” perhaps they should start looking for it in Sierra Leone?

Perhaps they’d consider it racist, but I wouldn’t.

I wonder what is stopping them from practicing their “racial and ethnic identity.” Nobody stops me from practicing my ethnic identity.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Those comments that you are making are uneducated and unrealistic.  Africans in America were beaten and even killed for practicing their culture and traditions of their native land.  Therefore, inabling them to pass these traditions down to their children and so on.  Africans in America today do not hold any since of connection with Africa because of these reasons. 
If your mother was raped and beaten while on the job.  Wouldn’t you sue that corporation.  Or better yet, Jewish people sued Switzerland for money taken from their ancestors, so why can’t Africans.  If there is an injustice, it has to be set right.

You said:

“If your mother was raped and beaten while on the job. Wouldn’t you sue that corporation.”

No, I wouldn’t sue the corporation.  The corporation isn’t capable of raping my mother.  The corporation exists only on paper.  I’d find the individual who was responsible for raping my mother and make sure that he was arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Slave reparations is craziness.  Should Jews be allowed to sue Germany’s current government over the atrocities of the holocaust?  Should Christians be allowed to sue Italy’s government because of what the Romans did to ancient Christians?  Of course not.

Slavery was a terrible, terrible thing, but nobody who is alive today is responsible for slavery.  All those people died a long, long time ago.  The people you’d be punishing with your lawsuit today had nothing to do with slavery.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Other race and or ethnic background were paid or granted some type of payment because of what was done to them.  Could it be that because there is so many AA in the US there is no way to pay back what was done so they pushed it under the table in a way, but not to exclude them but only because something so terrible can never be fixed.  Even today many AA are still being treated badly because of who they are.  I feel that if anyone wanted to make up what was done during slavery they would change the way they still treat AA.  Some people say that they didnt have anything to do with slavery but when you discriminate aganist AA you play a role some way or another.  That not only goes for treating AA right but every other race. But it IS only my opinion .