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Robert Westley

excerpted from:  MANY BILLIONS GONE: IS IT TIME TO RECONSIDER THE CASE FOR BLACK REPARATIONS? , 40 Boston College Law Review 429-476 (1998) (citations omitted)

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For each beloved hour, sharp pittances of years.
Bitter contested farthings and coffers heaped with tears