Quote Originally Posted by Big D

Also, current generations of African-Americans are paying the price for past injustices. Disproportionate levels of poverty, crime, poor education and unemployment are a direct result of having been second-class citizens, not only during the slavery era, but right up until the legal activism in the '60s. Effects linger from one generation to the next, it's an undeniable fact. If your father was poor, uneducated and abused, you're going to have a poor and uneducated uprbringing - add to that the knowledge that your circumstances are due to the colour of your skin... my point is made, I think.
But, Look at a state like Vermont where There was NEVER slavery. It was put into the constitution that slaves were illigal. Why should people who's familys even be made to pay? And my father was poor and uneducated and I am not. Most of my fathers side of the family are dairy farmers who have a high school education at most and yest seem to still lead a happy life and beable to provide for there familys.