The number of Whites who were enslaved in North Africa by the Barbary pirates exceeded the number of Africans enslaved in the United States and in the American colonies before that put together. But nobody is going to North Africa to ask for reparations.
— Thomas Sowell, Maverick: Jason Riley On The Life And Times Of Thomas Sowell (2020)
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