Re: Re: Re: RE: reparations

[Michael Yates <mikey+@xxxxxxxx>]

But you are living in the USA not in Central Asia.  You have benefited from
slavery and exploitation of black persons as have I and every other white
person.  This is our history and it is we who have to confront it.

Michael Yates

Brad De Long wrote:

> >'Cute little quips,'
> >dismissiveness, etc., show an insensitivity that should not be tolerated.
> >Mat
> >
>
> Go learn something about the experience of French Protestants,
> Spanish Jews, Gypsies, Poles during World War II, Soviet or Chinese
> or North Korean peasants, Cambodian city-dwellers, the Albigensians,
> the Irish, or people unlucky enough to be in parts of central Asia
> conquered by Timur-i-Lang.
>
> Then come back and we'll talk.
>
> Brad DeLong