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Slavery was an injustice. Nobody disputes that. However, it's not clear that reparations will correct the injustice.
In my view, reparations have rhetorical power, but they will not fix the problem. In fact, they will cause additional injustice. Reparations are theft in the present to pay for theft in the past.
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