Reparations
Justa thought (courtesy of The Cave of Adullum): during the 16th/17th century slave trade, somewhere around 600,000 to 650,000* African slaves were transported to what is now the United States (although some were transported to French and Spanish territory, now U.S.). During that same time, Muslims captured and took to Africa as slaves, between 1,000,000 and 1,250,000 Europeans. I’m sure that had some kind of deleterious effect upon my European ancestors. I want reparations. The Saudis have deep pockets. Let's all sue them. *note: yeh, there were 10,000,000 or more African slaves taken/transported during the same time frame, but most went elsewhere, not to what turned out to be the territory of the U.S. Brazil? Jamaica and Haiti and Cuba, ya think? Tons. Etc. |