Letters to the Editor
Reparations will 'prolong hatred and prejudice'
Laura Winsky's column, "It's not charity; it's an outstanding debt," in the Monday Wildcat is utterly fallacious - hardly the "logical approach" she promises. "Our colonial-era economy was forged with cotton cultivated by the hands of free labor - quite a rewarding investment and one which we continue to profit from today" is a false statement. The entire United States was not one giant cotton plantation, in fact only the South was. Nor did the South make a large profit from it. The South was impoverished and backward, its industry and education far behind the North, with only a few aristocrats making any profits from slave labor, hardly any different from their aristocratic contemporaries in Europe making money from the serfs.
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