Posted on 02/06/2020 10:15:22 AM PST by karpov
exactly. One side of my family (that I know of) owned slaves. On the other side I am heavily native American. Do I have to pay myself reparations?
If you offer a partial payment, you are accepting that the debt is legitimate, it’s just the amount that remains to be negotiated.
“When will this ever end?”
It will never end. Sharpton said base point is $600k to every black plus preferential jobs, minority owned business grants and tax payer subsidized housing and other give aways above what is already given out.
“8,000 known descendants”
800,000 tomorrow.
Start cuttin' checks
A fool and his money....
1838? Hah! Under this ridiculous theory, most of us (of all skin tones) are owed millions by all kinds of governments and institutions. Unless all your ancestors at that time were lucky, at least some of them probably lived under circumstances where they got royally abused by somebody.
How much do I get? I’m part Pottawatomi Native...
First class tickets back to their ancestral homelands and container ships loaded with all their belongings... It’s a fair fare...
There were wide variations in Jim Crow laws. Some states had hardly any.
Already paid for...in the blood of at least 620,000 American lives....probably a whole lot more. Lots and lots of American blood shed for em at Gettysburg, Shiloh Hill, Chickamauga, Chancellorsville, Antitetam, Bull Run, Vicksburg....and the list goes on. Nobody owes em anything...not one, single, damn red penny....nada. Love it or leave it.
This couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of phonies. Go get-em and if they don’t cough up enough money (and WHEN is it ever enough?) close the liberal hate America factory down.
Talking about reparations---hey, how about a couple of mill from Egypt? They kept MY ancestors enslaved there for a LONG time. C'mon Egypt, cough it up!
If they want to get rid of their endowments, that’s cool. It’s not my money.
I gave a great, great uncle, and another’s leg. I think we are all set with our reparations.
These leftists fools running universities have no idea how ungrateful and demanding other leftist fools are when it comes to their money. I hope to see these institutions go bankrupt trying to please everyone.
At heart, reparations of this sort are really little more than a symbolic gesture anyway that acknowledge past injustice. In addition, such an award also demonstrates that such wrongs were ended 60 years ago and very few people still alive have been subject to officially sanctioned discrimination and its time to move on , which is also fair.
The requirement that any government welfare paid out to an individual in the past be considered reparations already paid out would go a long way to quashing the resentment culture by forcing the grievance culture to own up to the fact that Black Americans have not been persecuted and denied opportunity by a wicked white majority intent on keeping them down ( unless of course, you count Democrat politicians who have set up a government plantation to keep them down).
People on welfare have plenty of free time on their hands to better themselves via a huge network of education or employment programs intended to get people off welfare
As of last year, one son of a Union veteran was still drawing a Civil War pension from the VA Administration.
I thought Trump’s idea to offer trade classes in high schools was tremendous.
“The were first captured by African (Kenyan) tribes who sold them at the ports to slave merchants”.
Kenya is on the East side of Africa. Doubt they would have been heavily involved in the West African slave trade.
They might have been involved in slave trading with the Muslims in Egypt or the Persian Gulf area.
Read this article by a Black Man that shares the history of Slavery, and we did not start it...
They did!
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/01/im-saddened-white-mans-emasculation-raymond-ibrahim/
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