Posted on 04/17/2016 3:25:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Muhammad Ali: “Thank God my Granddaddy got on that boat.”
Wise man. Ali understands:
1) No present day descendant of slaves in the United States would be alive today if his African ancestors had not crossed the ocean to become enslaved. The specific combinations of DNA from numerous black and white ancestors over multiple generations would not have occurred.
2) Despite all of the cries about white privilege and racism in America today, almost every black African child born today in Africa has fewer opportunities and will live a lower standard of living that almost every black American. The fact virtually no African Americans emigrate to Africa is evidence. If life was better, we would see more moving. No one is preventing them from leaving.
3) Blacks who immigrate to the US from Africa and Caribbean nations enjoy greater economic prosperity than average African Americans even though many do not have the language skills or cultural knowledge, much less networks of family and friends, needed for success.
4) As others have pointed out, reparations were paid in blood and trillions of welfare spending and income transfers over decades.
Clean Water, Best Health Care System in the World and Welfare are enough...
Phuq dem all.
So the government that freed the slaves has to apologize to all the people in America who may or may not be their descendants for what they freed them from?
So the government that freed the slaves has to apologize to all the people in America who may or may not be their descendants for what they freed them from?
None of my husband’s ancestors came to the US until after the civil war and only one of my grandparents had any ancestors who were here while slavery existed. As far as I know-none owned slaves. But because we happen to have less melanin we owe those whose ancestors may have been slaves all because they happen to have more melanin.
Insane.
Say we approve reparations, all tax payers, even blacks, Asians, Hispanics, etc., would be paying for it. How are blacks gonna like that?
I think we should just forget about it. Ok?
“Talked to one guy who did pretty good that told me he paid over $100,000 in taxes in 5 years time.”
Believe him. I am paying at that rate too. Over $20,000 just to the feds this year. And that is after a lot of legitimate business deductions, etc. Could be worse, a lot worse.
Indeed. I am not against TEMPORARY assistance for those that CANNOT work. I am vehemently against ANY assistance for those that WILL NOT work.
Memo to those demanding reparations:
To quote your Messiah, Barack Hussein Obama:
“YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT!”
You’re welcome.
Well, tell that 2.1% to open up THEIR checkbooks, then.
Set the example... “make a difference”... etc., etc.
All of those ex-slaves have died and so have those who oppressed them. There are no living ex-slaves to reimburse for anything because those who were harmed are DEAD. Moreover, in my family, my great-great-grand uncles fought for the Union during the Civil War. On my mother's side, my grand parents came from Sweden after the turn of the 20th century and never owned a slave. The blacks who want reparations really need to be paying whites and Republicans for freeing them from Democrat instituted and defended slavery.
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