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  • If They Can Pass Health Care Reform, Than (Vanity)

    03/22/2010 10:10:12 PM PDT · by Ptarmigan · 25 replies · 683+ views
    If Congress can pass Health Care Reform, than could they now pass slave reparations?
  • Slave reparation lawsuit filed in NYC

    03/27/2002 12:18:42 PM PST · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 25 replies · 2+ views
    UPI ^ | 3/26/02
    A lawsuit seeking reparations for all who can claim slave ancestry was filed in federal court in New York City Tuesday against the insurance company Aetna, the railroad company CSX Transportation Inc. and Fleet Financial Services, the parent of FleetBank. However, the lawsuit also names more than 1,000 unidentified corporations that may have profited from slavery in the United States between 1619 and 1865. "Slavery constituted an immoral and inhumane depravation of Africans' life, liberty, African citizenship rights and cultural heritage," the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, said. "It further deprived African Americans of the fruits of...