Re: reparations

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:34 PM 2/10/00 -0800, you wrote:
> I was recently thinking about Robinson's call for reparations.  Suppose
> that United States was called upon to pay reparations for what they
> imposed on the slaves, what they took from the indigenous people, the
> damage that they caused through imperialism.  How many years of gross
> domestic product might be involved?

sorry to distract from the Brad/Louis set-to, but if this is the same
Robinson who was interviewed on US National Public Radio the other day,
he's not calling for reparations in the form of checks to those who were
superexploited or their descendants. He was talking about aid in the form
of education grants, below-market business loans, and the like. He was
clearly against reparation checks.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &  http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine