$1 billion is approximately the value of the original $115 K earning around 5% for 180 years. So yes Georgetown needs to pay up!!!
NO! White men died to free those slaves. The descendants should be billed for the services of those dead men. Their families had no life insurance, no unemployment insurance, no workmen’s compensation etc.
It was muslim slave traders who captured those ancestors. Make the muslims pay for kidnapping, human trafficking, cruelty, and whatever else sticks. Bill the offspring of the black tribal chiefs who sold them or betrayed them to the slave traders.
The people who bought them gave them shelter, fed them, clothed them, gave them jobs and assured their survival so that offspring could even exist in the first place, just like welfare does today.
I’m so tired of this oh poor me BS. Thank God you even live! Your slavery was not pleasant in some cases, but without it, most likely you would have died as those left behind did.
MY people were enslaved, kidnapped and shipped off to parts unknown as well, and the country that did it to this day refuses to acknowledge it or even apologize for it. Furthermore, their lands were confiscated, homes burned, and the farms given away to minor royalty of that enslaving country. 100 years later those people were starving to death, their children parceled out as slaves ...by the churches that took them in no less! Some of my people escaped and came to this country in hopes of finding work and survival. And they entered LEGALLY. LEGALLY! (think trump lol!)
I don’t want to hear the oh poor me bs just cuz your hair is fuzzy and your skin is brown. Grow up, Thank God for what you have today and move on! We live in a fallen world and ‘schitte’ happens.
Why? Georgetown did nothing illegal at the time, and there is a little thing in our Constitution about “ex post facto” laws.