Native American reparations first Regarding Gabriel Greschler’s article on black reparations (“Atonement: The Jewish case for black reparations”), if we’re going to use the Holocaust as the model for justifying reparations, then we need look no further than Native Americans as the worthiest recipients. They were the victims of a long genocidal campaign by the…
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Religion
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