Point of View
40 Acrea.wfa a Mule
By Reva Lution
White Freedom came from
black labor,” says Sterling
Stuckey. He bases this on
how he believes the Revolutionary
War was funded through slave labor.
Today, Stuckey and many other
Americans of African descent believe
that slave descendants should receive
reparations for the devastation suf
fered by the slave population and the
backlash that blacks still feel today.
And who can argue with them?
It has been a historic trend that reparations in the form of money and a
^ formal apology. Erica Lee, a first year public policy
when an injustice IS committed agamst a large mass oi . . u - n ^
■’ . major insists, If you look at the history of the United
people, the government tinds ways to make restitution _ , , ,• . i
^ ^ ^ , , . , ^ States and see how it benefited from the lives and souls
to those injured as well as to their survivors. In tact, . . , , , . r.u tt o
■' . . of black people, it s the least [the U.S. government]
after 115,000 Japanese Americans were put into pnson , ^
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camps during World War II, the United States govern-