Read it here.   I get it.  Slavery was bad.  It’s a blight on our heritage.  Not because we alone in the world owned slaves.  But because of the lofty principles upon which our country was founded.  True, slavery was something we inherited from our mother country.  True, not everyone – even from the beginning – supported slavery.   Nonetheless, a blight on our history it remains.
As for reparations, I’m of two minds about that.  Perhaps it’s because my wife proudly traces her lineage from two distinct sources.  On one hand, she is part Native American.  On the other hand, she is descended from Jenny Wiley, a hapless victim of Indian atrocities whose account of capture, murder and enslavement is an oft forgotten (deliberately or otherwise) part of the migration into the expanding United States.

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