Originally Posted by: tomcas929I wasn't mentally prepared for this on a guitar site.[/QUOTE]

Stick around long enough and these sorts of threads become commonplace. We have a really diverse group of regulars here and sometimes the thread's get pretty heated (election years :D)

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Simple. It's the WASP businesses that benefited early on from slave labor. Why not let them pay for programs to bring blacks up (the businesses and their descendants, not just WASPs in general)

Could you go into a little more detail here? For those of you wondering why a hornet's cousin should be made to pay slavery reparations, I should point out that a WASP is an acronym for White Anglo Saxon Protestant. Pretty much most of us crackers here on the board :D Oh yea, it's also the name of a marginally kickass rock band from the 80's.


Any way, I digress. I consider myself to be a very liberal thinking person but absolutely reject the idea that any thing can be done know to right the sins of the father. What sort of WASP businesses exist today that were beneficiaries of slavery?