>Nobody even knows if they're related to the slaves or not. They don't >care. >They want us to pay them back for stuff that we aren't responsible for, and >they didn't go through. > A lot of questions pop up in my swollen little head: Who are ‘they’ here, exactly? And ‘us’? What is it you don’t think these ‘us’ are responsible for? I ask, because it looks like you are trying to say that it is not known whether now living Afro-Americans have ancestors that were slaves or not. And that the white majority in power is not historically responsible for that slavery. But I hope I’m reading you wrongly. That you’re really saying something to the effect that there must be a limitation to the use of the ‘white guilt’ argument. That not every colored person is an ancestor to a slave, and even if they were it is history, we now have such an equal society there really is no need historic arguments at all. I would disagree with a lot of that second reading as well. But I could at least understand it. /TLM ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com