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Reparations for the Exploited
By Michael Boyajian
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in a recent edition of the New York Times argues that there can be no reparations for the descendents of slaves because Africans took part in the slave trade. Therefore there are no innocent parties to this tragedy.