[nathanbedford]

Let's see, if the descendents of slave holders (or merely white people?) had to pay reparations to descendents of slaves then Obama himself would have to pay but would not receive reparations bounty.

His daughters, would have a neutral account or would more likely have to pay more than they receive depending on the slave ancestry and the slave holding ancestry of their mother. They would have to pay as the children of Obama but they might receive something as the children of Michelle, but only that part of Michelle which descends from slaves and not that part of Michelle which might have descended from slaveholding whites-that part would have to pay a proportional amount.

It is apparent that we are going to need both genealogists to determine both the sanguinity of people like Barak, Michelle, and the two kids as well as on the ground historians to determine who was naughty and who was nice.

Now we have the problem of quasi-slaves like indentured servants who might have been white and some who were black. Do they get or do they pay reparations? And we have another problem of slaves who became emancipated and then held slaves. And yellow people pose a real problem too because many of them were held in virtual slavery in mines in the American West so the question arises whether they are entitled to reparations as well. What about the American Indians who held black slaves? Don't you think Indians who were oppressed and ejected from their lands ought to get reparations as well as the descendents of slaves?

This is getting more complicated than I thought. Maybe we should just pass a law making white people give their money to black people.

[tet68]

Well, before you know it, there will be a Ministry
Of Racial Heritage to sort this kind of thing out.
It’s happened before.

The Office of Planned Parenthood and Racial Registration.
Sign up now. or else.

[Smokin' Joe]

I think every person who has been a slave in the United States in their lifetime should be compensated for their productive labor by those who owned them. (With exception for those whose labors were part of serving their sentences for crimes for which they have been found guilty.)

If the sum total of those people isn't zero, it is very close.

[ozdragon]

Nathanbedford:
Anyone who immigrated subsequent to 1863 and their descendants would be exempt from the process.

[Gumdrop]

How about descendants of people who fled Missouri because of their anti-slavery opinions? They were chased out by the early forerunners of the KKK, barns burning, looting, homes invaded and threats.

Do I have to play reparations too?