South Africa parliament votes to seize white owned land

[Benton]

(03-09-2018, 04:13 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Well I believe  that’s crazy but I admire your consistency.   Since you don’t believe in reparations what do you plan on doing about this injustice?  Just talk about it?

That's an important part of it.

Take Indians. When I was a kid, we learned Native Americans welcomed Puritan settlers to their world, gave them all their possessions and decided arbitrarily to move west, many along the Trail of Tears (that was probably only brought up sine the trail runs through my area). The military provided escorts, but many Indians still died anyway.

Which, of course, isn't what happened.

We re-wrote that history because it's no fun explaining to a kid that their school sits on land that belonged to somebody else, and the government that's supposed to protect them wiped out those original people because they wanted that dirt. 

It's no different with slavery. When we support the view that we were just helping Africans we re-write the history of kidnapping, forcing them into labor, and sometimes committing acts of violence  against them.