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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 321: Should the U.S. pay reparations for slavery?
Description: Pigweed and Crowhill drink and review an IPA from Three Floyds, then discuss whether the United States should pay reparations for the evils of slavery.
P&C agree that the concept of reparations is sound. When you harm someone, you should try to repair the wrong that's been done.
They review some of the arguments for reparations and have sympathy for many of them.
The idea is not simply that the ancestors of slave owners should pay the ancestors of slaves, but that the entire system was complicit in slavery, so the entire...