Black leaders divided over reparations for slavery

["Seth Sandronsky" <ssandron@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

PEN-L:

Shelby implies that "white responsibility" and the capitalist system are
synonymous, no?



Black leaders divided over reparations for slavery

Special report: UN conference against racism

Ed Vulliamy New York
Sunday August 26, 2001
The Observer

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Shelby Steele is the best-known black opponent of all reparations.
Labelled a 'neo-conservative', Steele said reparations fall into line
behind the fight for welfare programmes that 'only subsidised black
intertia'. 'The demand for reparations,' he said, 'is yet another
demand for white responsibility, when today's problem is a failure of
black responsibility.'

Seth




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