Pope John XXIII
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Thank you for being constructive.OK, so I probably didn't debate as constructively as I could yesterday. My apologies for that.
I think Covid stuff has gotten under my skin the last couple of days and my midset hasn't been super healthy.
I retract any allegations of racism, and accept they aren't (at least an overt) manifestation of such.
I do believe the legacy of Colonialism and Slavery are so closely intertwined to the extent that it's nigh on impossible to separate them out. However they are also distinct and I recognise that for some posters the distinction is much more apparent.
I do believe we continue to profit from both and others continue to suffer from both. For me that renders the argument sins of our fathers as redundant but I can see how others struggle to make the connection.
Reperations for slavery (and indeed Colonialism) are essentially a mia culpa, an acknowledgement that we profited from the misery of others, and continue to do so.
That won't undo the historical damage that Western nations have done but they can be a platform towards easing the pain that continues to linger and a step towards creating a more equal society.
We are all racist, or at least racially biased somewhere. And I mean every human being on the planet. The starting point is accepting that and wanting to try to identify where it comes out. It is invariably linked to fear of something or other.
When you talk about reparations, what form would you envisage that taking?