One more reason to like Mark Twain, His Reparations for Slavery

“I do not believe I would very cheerfully help a white student who would ask a benevolence of a stranger,” Twain wrote, “but I do not feel so about the other color. We have ground the manhood out of them, and the shame is ours, not theirs, and we should pay for it.”

One more reason to like Mark Twain, His Reparations for Slavery

“I do not believe I would very cheerfully help a white student who would ask a benevolence of a stranger,” Twain wrote, “but I do not feel so about the other color. We have ground the manhood out of them, and the shame is ours, not theirs, and we should pay for it.”