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Liberia's Slave History Is Complex
NEWSDAY ^
| Sept 7, 2001
| TODD PITMAN
Posted on 09/07/2001 11:30:25 AM PDT by rebdov
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:18 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WHITE PLAINS, Liberia -- Sarah Andrews is clipping the legs off a half-dozen crawdads snatched from a river beside her house, filtering through memories of her American ancestry and her troubled country's remarkable past.
Andrews' forebears were among freed American slaves who returned in the mid-1800s to help found this West African nation, named Liberia for "liberty."
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Freed slaves became slave owners. But they got those slaves as reparations for their own slavery. They were entitled to slaves because they suffered! Hmm. Do those freed slaves anscestors get reparations and then pay their slaves, and then their slaves also can claim pay from the US for having freed them causing the newly freed slaves to enslave the locals? Oh, the reparations circles go round and round and round....
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posted on
09/07/2001 11:30:25 AM PDT
by
rebdov
To: rebdov
All have sinned, some are just looking to now profit off the guilt of others.
"Your wrong was worse than my wrong" and all that.
To: SocialMeltdown
Lot's a profit in guilt, and don't put no coins on that plate, the clinking gives me a headache.
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09/07/2001 11:42:37 AM PDT
by
rebdov
To: rebdov
To: Nellie Wilkerson
I haven't read the web link yet but why is it that where Africa is concerned, the solution ends up being worse than the problem it was ment to correct?
When it comes to Africa, there is no solution.
To: All
BTTT
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