RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - To In Excelsis Gloria :

OU.

You struck the nail right on the head.

Some smart Alec musician in 2004 once asked me a similar question on a flight from the US to London.

I said to him the communities where slaves were taken should be beneficiaries of reparations.

If we cannot deny children their inheritance simply because the person who worked for the wealth is no longer here we cannot deny liabilities for the source of the wealth if the wealth is fraudulently acquired.

This is why there is contemporary money laundering laws.

If slave reparations are unrecoverable then the Abacha loot should be unrecoverable and his children should have the right to keep the loot since they stole no money.  Never mind that the loot originally belonged to other people whose name is not Abacha.

OAA

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One possible reason is inheritance. People do inherit the assets and liabilities of their forefathers.

On Jun 29, 2020 8:27 PM, "Cornelius Hamelberg" <hamelbergcornelius4@gmail.com> wrote:

Please, short of spitting fire and venom, how does one begin to approach this question  :

Why should people who never owned slaves give money to people who never were slaves?  

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