chamber would move to disagree with the idea that slavery was an

atrocity, committed from the depths of the darkest parts of the human

sole. Africans were seized from their native land, and sold into

lives of servitude into a foreign land. Indeed, it was a tragedy on

such a scale that cannot be measured nor quantified. And it is this

very notion of unquantifiable tragedy which speaks to the matter of

reparations for slavery. To be quite blunt, reparations, even if they

may be deserved, are not feasible under any system or economic tangent

- indeed such an undertaking would only not remedy the situation, but

it would sink Africa and her people deeper into the cycle of poverty

and oppression that they have so struggled to free themselves. While

the arguments against reparations may seem shallow or self-serving to

advocates of such a system, upon examination, the logistics of what to

give, and whom to distribute it to, preclude any potential benefits of

such a system of indemnity and requite. The point of the follow

critique is not to say that Africans were not mistreated, nor that

were ever kept. Also worth of addressing is African involvement in

responsibility for repaying the slaves for their oppression and abuse.

separate treatment. Indeed, the point of this address was to display

succeed. This type of compensatory system would not only be

governing body can be sure of who these reparations ought to be

the nations which contain these former kingdoms today deserved of

many unanswered questions in the issue - the risks of the distribution

deserved of recompense, but it will never truly be possible to requite

The U.S. News and World Report comments:

apologetic state, will only further social damage and entrench abusive

and colonialism damaged the native structure and society - some might

assistance on Africa - it would distinguish them as something

Africa is a continent in dire straits. European colonization

The final case against the organized business of reparations

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