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Originally Posted by cmac2012
It's a tough one. I don't think massive reparations to Afro-Americans for slavery would be a good idea but there is some merit to the notion that we are living in mansions that our grandfathers built with slave labor -- not specifically you or I, but some of us, and the nation as a whole to some extent.
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What my dad did then was legal. If today it is not legal, I will not do it. Way back when, cocaine was legal too. In Singapore, my wife's grandfather owned an opium bar. It was legal then. However, since the sentence for trafficking drugs today is death, would you say that my wife should be executed or at least locked up? After all, she could be said to reap the benefits of grandfather's opium bar. So she is by that definition a beneficiary of the opium bar.