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I'd point out that I am with everyone else here that I detest the idea of slavery(either african, child, sex or any other persecuted group throughout history or geography) but I'd like to put a thought forward.

The people who are taking the stand that we should pay live their lives in good conditions with a decent quality of life. Is it not the bounceback from the suffering that their ancestors underwent that they now live in a world far removed from that which their ancestors could ever have hoped for them. What are they doing about the poor Africans alive today who may be distantly related? There but for the grace of god(and some terrible ordeal of their ancestors) go they.

In these days of racial harmony(much removed from the sensationalistic media I believe the vast majority of people are not racist) how much of that is due to the proximity of different cultures and races irrespective of how they were brought together. We can't say that we would be as integrated in the Western World had it not been for whatever went on in the past. Just like the holocaust spread the Jews throughout the World during their persecution(Ask me about the blond, fair kiddies in Dom Republic sometime) sometimes these periods however regrettable have positive effects on society.