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Multicultural Reparations

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Are reparations a just way to manage a multicultural society? The purpose of reparations is to compensate for the harm that blacks have experienced throughout history. For what blacks have gone through, reparations don 't come close to compensating for the history of abuses and suffering that blacks have had to face by the US government. For what blacks have gone through; cannot be simply written off with a check. Sure, reparations from the government show that they acknowledge that blacks have suffered for many generations. But, the wrongs done to blacks cannot be simply waved off so easily. No amount of money can right the wrongs and suffering that blacks have endured. And to use reparation as a way to manage a multicultural society would

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