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If someone told you that you were eligible to receive money from the government with little or no trouble, would you take them up on the offer? I know I would. The issue of slave reparations has stormed our nation's capital. Many supporters of the ongoing battle for black civil rights have looked toward slave reparations as a step to provide more equality for black Americans. They believe such reparations will place blacks on equal turf with white Americans of similar socioeconomic situations. Supporters also claim that, had emancipated slaves been allowed to possess and retain the profits of their labor, their descendants might now control a much larger share of American social and monetary wealth. While agreeing that racism has not been expunged from the fabric of American life, I believe that the force of the civil rights movement and the '64 Civil Rights Act have knocked down most barriers blocking blacks from the economic mainstream. Reparations are not the answer to more......

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