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The Michael Berry Show.

Democrats talk about reparations for slavery.

They form commissions in places like California to study it.

Candidates running for office promise it.

There are many questions involving reparations including well

who's going to pay for it, who gets it, how much should be paid out. However, one

question that's rarely asked is will it ever happen? Well, Thomas Sol was asked

that question and here is that great man's answer.

Something moved in the California legislature calling for formal reparations to African Americans.

How do you respond to that?

One, I know and they know, it's not going to happen.

So what we're looking at is someone who wants votes or followers, and this will get them votes

or get them followers and financing.

But it's not, all it will do is simply tear the country apart.

What we see in the United States in terms of the bad things, you see all around the world.

If you were to give reparations to everyone whose ancestors had been slaves, I suspect that you would have to give reparations to more than half the entire population of the globe.

Slavery was not confined to one set of races. I suspect that most of the people

who either slaves or slave owners around the world were neither white nor black. I mean, this was a

universal curse of the human species. Africa, the Middle East, Asia. Slavery took place everywhere.

And it continued elsewhere long after it was abolished in the Western countries.

The other thing, I have a slight sidebar on the history of slavery.

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