[mikelets456]

True, slavery did start in Africa and the first slave owner in North America was black. But remember that 500,000 white Americans died to free black Americans. Should those 500,000 that died get their reparations?

[rktman]

Someone in the past posted slave trade routes and distribution of those slaves. The U.S. was NOT the biggest recipient of the trade. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of white folks captured and enslaved by mooselimbs over the years.

[jeffersondem]

“But remember that 500,000 white Americans died to free black Americans.”

That is an interesting comment.

But why did they go to war to “free the slaves?” That could have been done peacefully using the constitutional amendment process in - say, 1848 - or even earlier.

[Allegra]

True, slavery did start in Africa and the first slave owner in North America was black. But remember that 500,000 white Americans died to free black Americans. Should those 500,000 that died get their reparations?

That’s the narrative we need to be pushing right back at these poverty pimps.

I love the way Hilary Forwich gracefully tossed that reparations BS right back in Lemon’s face.