National Slave Remembrance Day is not only an idea whose time has come, it's positively shameful that it hasn't happened yet.
Tell you what; the next time you're walking past the White House or the Capital in Washington, ask yourself the following question:
Who built that?
Both of those buildings were built by human beings who were in bondage - slaves.
The Case for Reparations or, what ever you want to call it.
Americans Can't Even Stomach An Apology for Slavery, Much Less Reparations
The center of gravity of Coates’ argument is that the current gap in wealth between blacks and whites—the highest on record—can be explained by the wholesale transfer of African-American capital in each of these forms to an economic system which has redistributed them in a way such that whites have overwhelmingly benefited."But we’re a grown up country which means it’s time to do the adult thing and own up to the past."
Americans Can't Even Stomach An Apology for Slavery, Much Less Reparations
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