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From: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Affirmative Action/Discrimination
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Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 23:29:26 EDT
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> [...]
> Simply, figure out the dollar amount owed the
> survivors/decendants of forced labor (slavery), and make
> payment.  Let's call it compensation for wages deferred.
> That along with the Civil Rights Amendment making it illegal
> to discriminate in the future (actually, from '64 on) will
> even the score.  The affect?  Complete elimination of the
> Affirmative Action debate.  No more wimpering from the
> liberals about inequities, no more bitching and moaning from
> privileged classes about reverse discrimination (which I
> don't really believe can exist).
>
 
> 					Brian Day

    oh boy, I can just see the disputes arising if this were enacted.  There are
vitually no good records on just *how much* work any particular slave did 
therefore there is no way to calculate just compensation. 

				Chris Andersen