I feel the same way. By the way, I'm curious about your name. Do you profess the atheist, communist dogma of Ted Kennedy or are you using your alias to slander his name? I'm thinking the latter. Ted Kennedy is personally my most hated PERSON in the whole (*)(*)(*)(*) country. He is the absolute epitome of debauchery, atheism, despicable thinking, corruption, etc. and has caused this country more harm than most people can possibly comprehend. He is one of those people that are particularly responsible for redirecting this country out of its excellent old character and ways towards it's own destruction. He's spent his whole life working against America and I hate him so.

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I'll never Forget. To pull You Closer is to Pull You Down. Ignorence can be an envy. Applaud us as the old American Power goes quietly into the night.

But why? As far as I understand, slavery was perfectly legal before that time. Why should anyone pay reparations for acting according to the law?

What would you say if for example the ecologists took power in the US in about twenty years or so and would demand that every owner of a car and/or a driving license today should pay reparations for »destruction of the environment« then?

I was being facetious. The irony here is that there is no one living today that could have possibly owned slaves. There aren't people alive, whose grandparents could have owned slaves. My point is that people who do not, and would not, own slaves shouldn't be punished or denigrated for what is clearly totally out of their control.

Otherwise, Britain owes us a major apology for oppressing us in the early 1700's!

Couldn't it be that you owe to the British because of your illegal rebellion against a king imposed to His throne by God's grace?

P. S.: I love your avatar!

Doublepost - sorry!