Comments by "The Shake Shack" (@StonyCurtis) on "USA: Can reparations solve the racial wealth gap? | DW News" video.

  1. The slave owners are the one who enjoyed "free money" not the slaves or their descendants. Reparations are an award for damages done, not free money
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  2. Many! The Dutch also have a reparations plan, not just the USA. I am sure the UK also has considered something similar. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade involved many nations, not just USA
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  3. Its not just America; What about the role played by France, UK and Netherlands? They also owe
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  4. Because we live in a society that based its development on the slave trade and still benefits from the results of that activity. These damages should have been paid out decades ago!
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  5.  @notorio526  Oh, the UK will be paying reparations some day, rest assured. So will the USA. You cant run away form a debt!
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  6. If you can enslave people based on color, you can pay damages based on the same idea
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  7. You win the prize for stupidest comment of the day!!!
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  8. Many states already have some kind of reparations plan, so does the federal government
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