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Seems Alan Keyes (Republican candidate for Senate vs. Barak Obama in Illinois) has flip flopped and come down in favor of slavery reparations:

Tax exemption would give Blacks "a competitive edge in the labor market," because they would be cheaper to hire than federal tax-paying employee" and allow Blacks to be compensated "for all those years when your labor was being exploited," said Keyes, who is challenging Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama for the U.S. Senate seat.

Funny thing.. as recently as 2002 he was quoted as follows:

“The issue of slavery was very prominent in the minds of the young men who went into the cannon's mouth during the Civil War,” Keyes railed. “[A] lot of folks went consciously, believing that God called them to give their lives to repair the moral wrong of slavery. Something money could not do. So, they gave their blood.” “Now, it seems to me that by the very comparison you're suggesting, almost I feel an insult to our slave ancestors. You want to tell me that what they suffered can actually be repaired with money? You're going to do the same thing those slaveholders did, put a money price on something that can't possibly be quantified in that way.”

I wonder... you think this will become part of the Republican Party's platform at the convention? hehehe....
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