[IronJack]

As she studied the issue, however, she concluded that many modern-day disparities are the legacy of slavery, that years of unpaid labor unfairly shifted wealth from blacks to whites. She further decided that slavery's lingering effects on black America -- such as limited health care, housing and educational opportunities that echo through the generations -- entitle all blacks in this country to compensation from the government.

As she dried her hair from the rhetoric of such nonsense-spewers as Randall Robinson and Cornel West, she concluded that a fat lunch ticket could be at the end of this argument. She further decided that she would legitimize her parasitism by rallying under such noble-sounding rhetoric as "slavery's lingering effects" and "modern-day disparities of the legacy of slavery." She slept better that night having avoided language such as "willful disenfranchisement" and "culture of failure." And the ghosts of half a million dead let her slumber in peace.

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She doesn't see quotas, racial "set-asides", city preferal to minority contractors, as programs already in place to "right" past wrongs?

Anyone who owned slaves should be forced to pay anyone who was a slave. No sense in berating the decendents for the actions of their grandparents, however.