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10. Negotiations will have to deal with the stolen lands.
Fri Sep 23, 2022, 02:57 PM
Sep 2022

Why is that it's the ones who have been victimized and suppressed for decades and had land and (wages stolen...US enslavement), always have to be the ones who have to forget the past and acquiesce to know compensation/reparations for past wrong doings?

The one side who dominated and stole resources has the wherewithal, after decades/centuries of draining resources, to be sincere and show good faith to negotiate some sort of agreement for compensation or there will always be bitterness, and thus no solution.

This same feeling has come up with the dying of the Queen as the bitterness in the former colonies and the commonwealth nations has been revealed to be still there because there was never any apologies or attempts at compensation.

That's human nature. The previously dominant side should not expect the victimized to just forget. They shouldn't just forget either.

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