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…in reply to @dootabb
@dootabb @fayolabostic @nhannahjones @Jeff_Jacoby In what other context would deaths of soldiers in a war constitute restitution for a grievous injustice done to a specific group? If a soldier today died while rescuing a hostage, would that preclude the hostage seeking restitution because blood was spilled?
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@dootabb @fayolabostic @nhannahjones @Jeff_Jacoby The idea that enslaved people's freedom was bought with the blood of northern soldiers, making freedpeople indebted to the nation instead of the other way around, was also a staple of advice literature at the time: slate.com/human-interest/2017/12/education-during-reconstruction-and-how-formerly-enslaved-black-americans-learned-to-read.html
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@dootabb @fayolabostic @nhannahjones @Jeff_Jacoby But that very idea---soldiers lives as payment---is part of what allowed northerners to rationalize doing very little else for freedpeople, which opened the door to Jim Crow, lynching, & the other evils that reparations advocates address. It's not just about slavery.
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@dootabb @fayolabostic @nhannahjones @Jeff_Jacoby A commission to study reparations (like the one that examined Japanese American interment & ultimately recommended restitution) would explore the questions you raise. If slavery was a hideous evil, it deserves that kind of study before you or I dismiss call for redress.
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