Principles of Compensation (Fred Speaking)
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I agree that what was done was unjust. But you still run into the same sort of problem that I've mentioned before. The people who supported and carried out the policies you are talking about are dead. Most of the victims of those policies are dead. We can't compensate them directly and nothing we give to anyone else today is equivalent to compensating them.

White Americans in 1994 shouldn't be held responsible for injustices done to blacks in 1930 or 1950 by other people. Most white Americans today wouldn't even think of supporting the policies you're talking about.

But what we can do is treat everyone without regard to color.

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