They’ll always be used as victims by the demon party. Nothing will change with paying them off.
All for it- have all the folks who are enslaved present their case in court to sue the slave owners for damages etc.
Oh, you mean the descendants of pre-1873 13th Amendment folks getting money from descendants of pre13th Amendment folks? Not so much. Ex Post Facto laws and all....
Even worse, people claiming to be progeny of slaves seeking damages from everyone by virtue of federal tax revenues? What an idea!
Money is not the answer to their problems, but a good starting point is for them to work on the disintegration of the black family. A lot of that is because of the War on Poverty. Blacks need to clean up their own house first before we start throwing even more money at it just to buy votes.
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.
Everything the Rats are for is costing quadrillons.
Islam owes Europe reparations for the ~1 million white slaves taken over the years ("Barbary Pirates" -- recall the US Navy was founded in response to such).
Dems know that nobody on their side excites the African-American vote, that President Donald J. Trump's policies have brought full employment and economic opportunity to entire swaths of the Dem base, and all they're hoping is that they can maintain their tenuous hold on the House.
Pay the families of the soldiers killed fighting to free the slaves in the Civil War, all 360,222 of the Union Army who died.
They need to buy some votes. How will they attract attention if they do not promise something?
The Federal Gov. is an ATM Machine. People work hard to pay all these taxes. Elected officials will use tax money to buy votes to get re-elected.
Time for the Democrat Party to pay up. As for the rest of us, none of us were alive during slave owning times. Most of our forefathers arrived here after slavery was abolished. Pay up, Democrats!
There’s another possible reparations issue completely ignored: Blacks as well as whites live on land that was taken, sometimes brutally, from American Indians.
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I thought the land was either purchased or acquired by treaty.
A few talking points:
1. Blacks wouldn’t want to be in the same position today that they would have been if their ancestors had never been enslaved. They would be living in poverty in Africa. The descendants of the enslaved are better off than the descendants of the Africans who sold them into slavery.
2. What about the reparations that they have already received in welfare payments and getting benefits by racial preferences against whites? Enough is enough.
3. What about all the things they have done to become their own worst enemies — crime, drugs, divorce, “learning is acting white,” etc.?
“As of 2014, U.S. taxpayers have spent $22 trillion on Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty (in constant 2012 dollars). Adjusting for inflation, that’s three times more than was spent on all military wars since the American Revolution.”
22 trillion. Isn’t that the current amount of our on-the-books national debt? What do we have to show for it?
If you pay them they will want more.
Nobody is saying it, so here goes. Knowing the people who would receive this theoretical cash windfall, the monies would be wine poured into the sand. It would be spent on non-durable consumer goods and gone within months. No lasting productive benefit such as industrial machines or job training or permanent jobs would come of it.
Democrats are wrong about calling for slavery reparations. They should not even ask for reparations until Islam pays reparations to the USA for the damage from their 9-1-1 attacks on America. Those were direct costs to Americans, not demands made generations after the fact.
We could never have owned a slave, and were not even in America during the period when slavery was legal.
My family does not own a dime to anybody that claims they are due reparations because their great-great-great-great uncle knew a slave in 1854.
As far as white privilege is concerned, one grandfather was killed in the mines, the other shot while driving a beer truck during prohibition.
What a great white advantage they had.
BTTT
That guy needs a medal if freedom award a national treasure and a really decent person