UNIT TEST:
Life Stories - Part 1
Refer to the Newsela article "Issue Overview. Should the Descendants of Slaves Get Reparations?"
According to the article, how do opponents of reparations make distinctions between groups that have received reparations in the
past and the descendants of enslaved people who seek them today?
O Past recipients suffered serious injustices; the descendants of enslaved people have suffered no real injustices.
O Past recipients did not receive cash payouts, the descendants of enslaved people will accept no other form of reparations.
O Victims who received reparations in the past suffered the injustices firsthand; the descendants of enslaved people did not.
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Victims who received reparations in the past were paid by corporations, the descendants of enslaved people are seeking
them from governments.
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The logic of the opponents of reparations to slavery descendants according to the above mentioned article is that, Victims who received reparations in the past suffered the injustices firsthand; the descendants of enslaved people did not.

After the Civil War freed the enslaved people in the country:

Reparations were paid to slave owners
Very few enslaved people got reparations

Those who oppose the descendants of slavery getting reparations say that the few that got reparations in the past actually deserved it because they witnessed slavery first hand. They believe that because the descendants did not, they shouldn't get anything.

In conclusion, opponents of reparations being paid to slavery descendants base their argument on the fact that the descendants did not witness slavery.

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