reparations & exploitation

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie, I'm also puzzled by how you resist applying the term 
>exploitation to race relations, yet support reparations. Presumably 
>the reparations would be compensation for several centuries of 
>superexploitation, and not nonexploitative maltreatment.
>
>Doug

Exploitation takes the form of the expropriation of surplus from one 
class by another.  Therefore slaves were by definition exploited. 
Who were the exploiters, however?  The ruling class or all white men? 
The ruling class.

Yoshie