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Article: Generations of unpaid labor make a case for reparations.(Special Report)
- Article from:
- The Black Collegian
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
- Author:
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Slavery and segregation in the United States have led to chaos in African America, unparalleled in the western world. The two S's, slavery and segregation, have led to Black folks' present day experiences of inadequate education, lagging in economic development, constant struggle for ample representation in every respectable field of endeavor, and being over represented in the doldrums of the criminal justice system.
The government of this country manufactured a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde personality and set in motion an immoral institution that, on the one hand jeopardized the sanity of everyone it touched, and on the other, was justified by time development of laws ...