by Paul Street Black chattel slavery made the United States an economic powerhouse and a beacon to European immigrants. “By 1836 nearly half the nation’s economic activity derived directly and indirectly from the roughly 1 million Black slaves. The descendants of that cauldron of torture and death deserve “a massive federal program of reparations in partial and belated compensation for the massive horror and theft.”
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http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/empire-of-cotton/383660/

http://www.c-span.org/video/?324267-1/book-discussion-empire-cotton

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/empire-of-cotton/383660/

http://www.c-span.org/video/?324267-1/book-discussion-empire-cotton

Explains a lot but admits little.

Explains a lot but admits little.

http://www.dweezilzappaworld.com/posts/1963441-the-crux-of-the-biscuit-is-the-apostrophe

http://www.dweezilzappaworld.com/posts/1963441-the-crux-of-the-biscuit-is-the-apostrophe

Ha, for a minute I thought you were critical of my punctuation...yeah, whadda ya expect?

It's a great line, 'the crux of the biscuit' has long been part of my vocabulary.

Ha, for a minute I thought you were critical of my punctuation...yeah, whadda ya expect?

It's a great line, 'the crux of the biscuit' has long been part of my vocabulary.

Ha, it is a funny line/concept...even if Dweezil's philosophical ideas are not very well thought out.