So let me ask you. If you could be assured that in exchange for a lifetime spent in slavery, your descendents 3 generations into the future would no longer be slaves but would have a lifetime of second-class citizenship, and that your descendents 6 generations into the future would have a lifetime of prosperity and wealth then would you do it?
If the alternative was a certainty that they would be condemned to live in someplace like Rwanda, in perpetuity? Yes.
Nope.
Like I said, that good can sometimes can from evil does not mitigate the evil.
Seems to me that’s the issue on this thread. Does the benefit to today’s black Americans mitigate the evil of past slavery? That’s what some conservatives mightsay, or probably more often, what some liberals will say the conservatives are saying. The answerL not in my book.
The equal and opposite fallacy, IMO, is the black racist and liberal claim that the good for American blacks today is completely invalidated by the fact that it is historically based on the past evil of slavery. Therefore blacks are always and eternally victims and we owe them forever, both guilt and money.
IMO, both the evil and the eventual good are real. The good does not justify the evil. But that the evil existed in the past also does not invalidate the good of today.