Reparations for Slavery

Townhall.com ^ | June 26, 2019 | Walter E. Williams

[N. Theknow]

Democrats of old used their own money to buy their slaves.

Democrats today use taxpayer money to buy their slaves.

And as far as test scores go ...

When actually trying to learn something is frowned upon as “ acting white” and the black community does little to encourage respect and protects feral youths, what outcome would be expected?

[txrefugee]

Democrats should pay any reparations because they benefited from slavery. Republicans freed the slaves.

[Svartalfiar]

As to reparations, I am totally against it. The entire concept is political pandering. I’d be hard-pressed to support even $1 per person in reparations.

Actually, reparations might not be such a bad idea, with conditions.

- Anyone who accepts reparations, gets them (guaranteed!).
- Everyone who gets them, renounces US citizenship, ineligible for life to re-apply.
- Everyone gets a paid-for one-way flight to the African (or other ancestral country 'he' was enslaved from) country of his choice.
- Funding is available for 40 rural acres, or an average size suburban/city house, paid directly to the seller from the US Treasury/Embassy, at market rate.

[Svartalfiar]

and they didn't even free their own slaves till 8 months after the war was over.

Yup, funny thing about the Emancipation Proclamation, it was only directed at the Confederate States, where Lincoln had no power. The North (where he did have authority), didn't have anything passed to free their slaves. Technically, slavery ended in the South eight months before it did in the North.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

Slavery was done away with 150 years ago. Nobody alive today was ever a slave. What is all this talk about reparations for slavery then? It is a phoney effort by the democrats to mislead the black people who they consider too dense to realize what is being done to them. If I were black, I’d start voting Republican.

[Verginius Rufus]

American blacks would not be living in poverty in Africa (other than first-generation African immigrants). They wouldn't be alive.

Each person is the result of matings over countless generations by innumerable ancestors. The men and women who wound up as slaves in what is now the US (mostly before 1776) were from various places in Africa and I think the general practice was to mix people up so you would not have a lot of slaves who spoke the same language in the same location. The slave children born in America had fathers and mothers who would never have met if they had remained in their native villages in Africa.

[econjack]

I’m starting to understand that poster I read that said:

We should have picked our own cotton.

[Texas resident]

Here is the best way to pay reparations.

A line item on the 1040 tax form.

Make it voluntary. All former slave owners can now contribute to the fund that will make whole all the former slaves.

done.