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Article: How I Changed My Mind.(view on reparations demanded by African Americans for slavery)(Brief Article)
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- Sojourners Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Sojourners. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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A conservative Republican makes the case for reparations to African Americans.
I recently heard an interview with the editor of "Without Sanctuary," a collection of postcards made from photographs taken of lynchings in the United States. He described one postcard of a black woman and her son hanging by their necks from a bridge over a river.
Her husband was suspected of a crime, and when the lynch mob failed to find him at home, they hung his wife and child instead. After they were lynched, the citizens proudly lined up along the length of the bridge to have their pictures taken with the bodies dangling below. The idea of someone sending a postcard like ...