Posted on 01/20/2016 11:35:14 AM PST by C19fan
Last week Bernie Sanders was asked whether he was in favor of “reparations for slavery.†It is worth considering Sanders’s response in full:
No, I don’t think so. First of all, its likelihood of getting through Congress is nil. Second of all, I think it would be very divisive. The real issue is when we look at the poverty rate among the African American community, when we look at the high unemployment rate within the African American community, we have a lot of work to do.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Many blacks captured in warfare or raids were made slaves by their black captors. They then sold them to white slavers. Whites rarely if ever ventured into the interior of Africa. It was much easier just to pay black tribal chieftains/kings to get slaves. Evil on both sides.
No. Fire will be Obama’s gift.
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