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<a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/slave_reparations_lawsuit">Slave Descendants File $1B Lawsuit</a><br />n<br />n<i>Descendants of slaves filed a $1 billion lawsuit Monday against U.S. and British corporations, accusing them of profiting by committing genocide against their ancestors.</i><br />n<br />nGenocide: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.<br />nAncestor: one from whom a person is descended.<br />n<br />nSo riddle me this, if they are saying these corporations committed <u>genocide</u> against their <u>ancestors</u>, how are they here to complain about it? Wouldn't they have been wiped out? They brought some of their culture with them and expanded upon it like all Americans did. Genocide? I think not.<br />n<br />n<b>Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.</b>