They made me pick cotton

It was the most heinous crime ever committed (besides the Holocaust)
Reparations forever

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*they made my great grandma pick cotton

Picking cotton in the hot, humid South was exhausting, back breaking work. Why do you think they had to use slave labor to do it?

Besides, the nature of the work was only part of the evil. Those picking cotton had no freedom, and even their very lives were subject to their master's whims.

Now wait just one cotton picking minute.

They made me wear cotton, we should be wearing our proud cockreeds like our ancestors

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exactly
*they saved my great granny from living in Africa forever

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Recently David Horowitz created a stir by attempting to place ads in college newspapers denouncing the idea of reparations for slavery that is, the disbursement of cash payments to blacks today as a way of repairing the injustice of historical slavery. This bizarre idea of reparations reminds me of a story related to the heavyweight fight in the mid-1970s between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. Held in the African nation of Zaire, this famous fight was billed quite insensitively by contemporary standards as the "Rumble in the Jungle." In any case, after the fight was over and the victorious Ali returned to America, he was asked by a reporter what he thought of Africa. He replied, "Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat."

There is a profound notion, I think, concealed in this clever quip. It is something that I learned growing up in India, talking to my grandfather. My grandfather was a sophisticated man, but in some ways a very embittered man. He never wanted me to go to America, because he recalled the injuries and humiliations that had piled up during British rule, and he held these against the white man. From this I realized something quite startling. I realized that although colonialism had been bad for the people who had lived under it, such as my grandfather, it had been good for me. As a consequence of colonialism, I was exposed to the ideas and traditions that inform the Western understanding of freedom. I learned about separation of powers, democracy, human dignity, and equal rights. I learned the English language. Much of what I am and believe today has evolved out of the benefits I received from the colonialism that injured my grandfather.

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and the buck breaking
don't forget about the buck breaking

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Muhammad Ali, whether he intended it or not, was making a similar point about slavery. Slavery, even more than colonialism, was wrong and harmful to the people who lived under it. But paradoxically, and against the wishes of the slave owners, it also was the transmission belt that brought Africans into the orbit of Western freedom. Obviously the slaves were worse off as a result of slavery. But are the descendants of slaves worse off? Is Jesse Jackson worse off? Would Jackson be better off, by any measure, living in Uganda? We today are not able to repair the harm done to those who suffered under slavery, but it would be absurd to make a show of doing so by paying money to those who have, in a sense, benefited the most from their ancestors' suffering.

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Now imagine what the white slaves had to go through in Africa.