Black grievance and hate, passed from one generation to the next, meet white denial.
No American black demands compensation or reparations from the Africans whose ancestors kidnapped and sold them into slavery.
Slaves were not much more exploited, if at all, in the economic sense, than free white labor of the time.
See Jacob Riis.
All of us are descended from long generations of serfs and slaves for whose stolen labor no compensation was ever paid.
For which no reparations have been paid.
The function of demands for reparations is to legitimate yet more and deeper hate, more and deeper grievance on the one side, with the aims of intimidation, theft, and harm.
These demands are attacks.
They are blows delivered in assault.
The same is true of similar demands associated with Postcolonialism and the thoroughly racist allied ideologies.
Apologies, by the way, legitimate grievances and prepare the way for later demands.
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