Posted on 10/09/2017 8:00:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Watchu problem Honky....U no U r da problem ! Dem muzzys B r friends now—helpin us 2 get yur honky reperashuns ! /sarc and LOL
It comes down to who gets paid? Not so easy.
Are we paying blacks who can verify an ancestor was actually a slave? Or blacks without that history as well? Blacks whose family only arrived in the 20th century?
What % African ancestry is required? At least 50% ? 25% ? 5% ? Those who simply self-identify? (Hello Rachel D.)
And how much money per person are we talking about? $10,000 seems somewhat trivial. $100,000? $1.0 mil? The bill would be ugly.
Where does this money come from? Tax? Who are we taxing? Everyone? Caucasians only? Hispanic and Asian too? Everyone but blacks? Are we excluding certain low income levels? At what level? So we’re taxing the rich? Middle class?
And what of blacks who have been very financially successful and are millionaires? Paying them too when the money could legitimately help out much lower income levels better?
Or is this not just about slavery but discrimination? Do nearly all races but Caucasian suddenly lay claim?
Any payout formula could get messy fast, if it could even be agreed upon to begin with.
Utter bunk.
Prior to the development of modern vaccinations and antibiotics, the life expectancy of a non-African in central Africa was under a year.
The Atlantic slave could have not existed without the enthusiastic cooperation of the stronger, more aggressive Africans who enslaved and sold their weaker, less-aggressive neighbors.
The only acceptable reparation would be repatriation. Don’t let the door hit you on your way out.
Notice the author leaves out South America, which also had a thriving slave trade. The South America, the average slave lived 10 years, compared to 30 years in the US.
Well, that settles it. If Cuba gave him an award, he must be a good guy.
I think the slave-owners and -traders did the Africans a huge favor, bringing them to the New World and introducing them to civilization.
I think African-Americans owe US reparations.
“Money for Nothing and the Weed’s for Free”
h/t Mark Knopfler
” who cannot find someone whose ancestors were not wronged, by slavery, genocide or other heinous acts by another. << “
Don’t recall the VIKINGS being victims too much, nor trading in the mdse of topic here ....
Might just be that I haven’t read the appropriate books ?
Consider, that if captured enemies could NOT be sold into slavery, that there would be no incentive to take prisoners. The incentive would be to just kill them all and take their land.
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The Vikings were the most ancient “indigenous people.”
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Shoulda picked our own cotton.
Current income**
-453.60 USD*
Total
If the total is greater than $453 then you are making more than the folks living in Guinea. Consider that your reparation.
If the total is less than $453 (negative) we will cut you a check to make up the difference.
**To include social payouts
* Annual Per Capita Income in Guinea (Just a random West African Nation where many of the slaves may have come from)
Blacks have had trillions in welfare as reparations.
We need to cut them off just like we don’t feed the bears because it makes them dependent.
“Notice the author leaves out South America, which also had a thriving slave trade. The South America, the average slave lived 10 years, compared to 30 years in the US.”
IIRC ~90% of the slaves from Africa were sent to South America.
The number of military deaths has been revised upward to 720,000. That does not take into account the tens of thousands of Southerners killed by Federal troops in the South due to shelling of cities, collateral deaths, and just thug killing.
I think I read some were its $30 trillion. That seems like an exaggeration, I would like to know how that figure (or any figure!) representing the amount was put together.
/s
Well...it WOULD buy a lot of Nikes, Hip-Hop and bling. For a couple of weeks, they’d be livin’ the dream. When the money was all gone, whose fault would that be? The Sharptons would stir up a bunch of bellyaching again.
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