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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.”

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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.”