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We oppose any form of reparation based on discriminatory criteriareparations for slavery. It is impossible to correlate modern social ills to a practice abolished almost 150 years ago.

Contemporary reparation talk is about slavery. Get to the point.

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Reparations

Submitted by SilentLamb (not verified) on Mon, 2010-11-29 16:34.

What about the reparations due the tribes?  Treaty after treaty was signed and broken.  The Cherokee even took their case to the Supreme Court at that time and were still moved illegally off their land and then genocidally murdered. 

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