Reparations: Who Should Pay? To Whom Should It Be Paid?

American Thinker ^ | 06/15/2018 | Tom Trinko

[Mears]

“I’ll go for one way tickets to the African nation of their choice.”

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They won’t know what you mean—————many of them think Africa IS a country.

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[JimRed]

Sixty-seventy years of welfare, thirty-forty years of minority set asides and preferences...any such debt is long paid, and overpaid.

[yoe]

"the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged."

There were many 'wronged' and they were not all from the Southern states...“The story of slavery in New England is like a landscape that you learn to see,” said Anne Farrow, who co-wrote “Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited From Slavery”; (How the Slave Trade Took Root in New England)

Reparations for American slavery is a fools project....Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters want to keep Blacks on their Plantations instead of encouraging them to stop living in the past, to work hard and make something of them selves.

[SkyDancer]

Dig up the dead Democrats of the Civil War era and make them pay.

[utax]

I’m all for reparations. Where do I send my $0.02?

[mrmeyer]

Nothing should be paid to no one. Those that were slaves are dead that were slave masters are dead as well as those who free them. Perhaps we can give out one way vouchers for a free flight to Liberia.

[Kozak]

They can book a trip to Wakanda...

[Bull Snipe]

Wrong. 360,000 white and black men died to free those slaves, the other 258,000 white men died to keep them slaves

[Leaning Right]

> Reparations: Who Should Pay? To Whom Should It Be Paid? <

Anyone who was helped by an immoral government policy should pay. Anyone who was hurt by an immoral government policy should be paid.

In other words, everyone should pay, and everyone should be paid.

See, that was easy.

[Stanwood_Dave]

Reparations: Who should pay? ANSWER: "shall now take that matter up with the "Dahomian tribe "of West Africa."

The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s. It Just Surfaced

https://www.history.com/news/zora-neale-hurston-barracoon-slave-clotilda-survivor BY BECKY LITTLE // MAY 3, 2018

Cudjo Lewis, the last surviving captive of the last slave ship to bring Africans to the U.S. (Credit: Erik Overbey Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama)

Roughly 60 years after the abolition of slavery, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston made an incredible connection: She located the last surviving captive of the last slave ship to bring Africans to the United States.

Hurston, a known figure of the Harlem Renaissance who would later write the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, conducted interviews with the survivor but struggled to publish them as a book in the early 1930s. In fact, they are only now being released to the public in a book called Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” that comes out on May 8, 2018.

Hurston’s book tells the story of Cudjo Lewis, who was born in what is now the West African country of Benin. Originally named Kossula, he was only 19 years old when members of the neighboring Dahomian tribe captured him and took him to the coast. There, he and about 120 others were sold into slavery and crammed onto the Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach the continental United States. Those wanting Reparations for slavery, shall now take that matter up with the "Dahomian tribe" of West Africa.

//////// “When Hurston tried to get Barracoon published in 1931, she couldn’t find a taker. There was concern among “black intellectuals and political leaders” that the book laid uncomfortably bare Africans’ involvement in the slave trade, according to novelist Alice Walker’s foreword to the book, which is finally being published in May. Walker is responsible for reintroducing the world to a forgotten Zora Neale Hurston, who’d died penniless and alone in 1960, in a 1975 Ms. magazine essay. As Walker writes, “Who would want to know, via a blow-by-blow account, how African chiefs deliberately set out to capture Africans from neighboring tribes, to provoke wars of conquest in order to capture for the slave trade. This is, make no mistake, a harrowing read.””

http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/zora-neale-hurston-barracoon-excerpt.html

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Lincoln had it right. Send them all to Liberia!

[Bulwyf]

Air drop some pallets of money over their ghettos. The problem will resolve itself.

Sounds harsh I know, but it would work out better for the real black people who want to pursue happiness.

[jmcenanly]

A lot of it might be paid to 23 & Me, or some such firm just so we can sort out who owes whom.