[Keith P.]

Originally Posted by Drybrain

Well, a lot of people didn't have clear title for a whole whack of reasons relating to, dare I say it, racism. Nonetheless, Africville had been a home to a lot of families for generations. Even if the letter of the law was being upheld, is it morally correct to say, "here's 500 bucks, now we're taking your entire home and ancestral community and destroying it"? (Guess what my answer is.) ue that

It's silly to re-litigate this issue anyway; the general consensus nowadays is basically that the city did a terrible thing, and it shouldn't have gone down like it did. Arguing to the contrary sounds more absurd with every passing year.

So the city should have ignored people living in squalor?