No wonder they are upset. Just think of the wonderful land of hope and opportunity they were taken from. I can't understand for the life of me why blacks don't return to their beautiful homeland?
Posted on 08/03/2016 4:00:29 AM PDT by Biggirl
Follow the money. Black Lives Matter was never really about protesting whatever drug dealer, robber or petty criminal was the latest to die in another violent confrontation with the police. Its founders, left-wing gay activists with a professional interest in community organizing, had little in common with the inner city criminals that they claimed to care about. Michael Brown or Freddie Gray were only their means to an end.
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When one ponders the cost savings of sending 747’s laden with First Class seating, Filet Mignon meals and Crystal (which seems to be the drink of choice) on a 1-way flight to Liberia with a one-time payment of $10,000 per person; in exchange for their US citizenship- I would vote for this in a heartbeat.
The cost savings in welfare, crime reduction, drug abuse, gangs, and other social programs would delay this lump sum distribution within 2 years.
Thanks for the David Eddings reminder.
Great author and a truly unappreciated series. Never did reach the acclaim he deserved, IMHO.
The only branch of my family that was here prior to the Civil War had a son who fought for the Union. That would qualify for an exemption and a thank you, right?
Black Loud Mouths...
The Liberians would not take them.
please note this response comes from a American of African decentt:
NO, reparations should not be paid to any decendant of any slave based on at least 4 sound arguments:
1. Blacks (i.e., descendants of slaves) are better off in America than to have been left in Africa. Those in disagreement should be offered air fare to return.
2.black Americans, even those NOT of slave ancestry, have ejoyed over a half century of preferred treatment by law over Caucasians, most of whom have no slave ownership I their ancestry.
3. Countless numbers of blacks who have legally migrated from Africa(true African-Americans) have thrived, proving the belief that native born blacks are hampered by past slavery a moot point.
4. According to what they tell me, over 600,000 folks (most white) died to “end slavery”. I’d say that debt has been paid.
We shoulda picked our own cotton.
Better yet, when will they end the practice?
Slavery in modern Africa
Slavery in Africa continues today. Slavery existed in Africa before the arrival of Europeans - as did a slave trade that exported millions of sub-Saharan Africans to North Africa, the Middle East, and the Persian Gulf.[1] However, slavery and bondage are still African realities. Hundreds of thousands of Africans still suffer in silence in slave-like situations of forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation from which they cannot free themselves.
Modern-day enslavers also exploit lack of political will at the highest levels of some African governments to effectively tackle trafficking and its root causes. Weak interagency co-ordination and low funding levels for ministries tasked with prosecuting traffickers, preventing trafficking and protecting victims also enable traffickers to continue their operations. The transnational criminal nature of trafficking also overwhelms many countries' law enforcement agencies, which are not equipped to fight organized criminal gangs that operate across national boundaries with impunity.
Slavery by African country
Chad
IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks) of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports children being sold to Arab herdsmen in Chad. As part of a new identity imposed on them the herdsman "...change their name, forbid them to speak in their native dialect, ban them from conversing with people from their own ethnic group and make them adopt Islam as their religion."[2]
Mali
The Malian government denies that slavery exists, however, the slavery in Timbuktu is obvious. Slavery still continues with some Tuaregs holding Bella people.[3]
Mauritania
A system exists now by which Arab Muslims -- the bidanes -- own black slaves, the haratines.[4] An estimated 90,000 black Mauritanians remain essentially enslaved to Arab/Berber owners.[5] The ruling bidanes (the name means literally white-skinned people) are descendants of the Sanhaja Berbers and Beni Hassan Arab tribes who emigrated to northwest Africa and present-day Western Sahara and Mauritania during the Middle Ages.[6] According to some estimates, up to 600,000 black Mauritanians, or 20% of the population, are still enslaved, many of them used as bonded labour.[7] Slavery in Mauritania was finally criminalized in August 2007.[8] Malouma Messoud, a former Muslim slave has explained her enslavement to a religious leader:
"We didn't learn this history in school; we simply grew up within this social hierarchy and lived it. Slaves believe that if they do not obey their masters, they will not go to paradise. They are raised in a social and religious system that everyday reinforces this idea.[9]"
In Mauritania, despite slave ownership having been banned by law in 1981, hereditary slavery continues.[10] Moreover, according to Amnesty International:
"Not only has the government denied the existence of slavery and failed to respond to cases brought to its attention, it has hampered the activities of organisations which are working on the issue, including by refusing to grant them official recognition".[11]
Imam El Hassan Ould Benyamin of Tayarat in 1997 expressed his views about earlier proclamations ending slavery in his country as follows:
"[it] is contrary to the teachings of the fundamental text of Islamic law, the Quran ... [and] amounts to the expropriation from muslims of their goods; goods that were acquired legally. The state, if it is Islamic, does not have the right to seize my house, my wife or my slave."[12]
Niger
In Niger, where the practice of slavery was outlawed in 2003, a study found that almost 8% of the population are still slaves.[13] Slavery dates back for centuries in Niger and was finally criminalised in 2003, after five years of lobbying by Anti-Slavery International and Nigerian human-rights group, Timidria.[14] More than 870,000 people still live in conditions of forced labour, according to Timidria, a local human rights group.[15][16]
Descent-based slavery, where generations of the same family are born into bondage, is traditionally practiced by at least four of Niger's eight ethnic groups. The slave masters are mostly from the nomadic tribes -- the Tuareg, Fulani, Toubou and Arabs.[17] It is especially rife among the warlike Tuareg, in the wild deserts of north and west Niger, who roam near the borders with Mali and Algeria.[18] In the region of Say on the right bank of the river Niger, it is estimated that three-quarters of the population around 1904-1905 was composed of slaves.[19]
Historically, the Tuareg swelled the ranks of their slaves during war raids into other peoples' lands. War was then the main source of supply of slaves, although many were bought at slave markets, run mostly by indigenous peoples.[20][21]
Sudan
Francis Bok, former Sudanese slave. At the age of seven, he was captured during a raid in Southern Sudan, and enslaved for ten years.(Courtesy Unitarian Universalist Association/Jeanette Leardi)
There has been a recrudescence of jihad slavery since 1983 in the Sudan.[23][24]
Slavery in the Sudan predates Islam, but continued under Islamic rulers and has never completely died out in Sudan. In the Sudan, Christian and animist captives in the civil war are often enslaved, and female prisoners are often used sexually, with their Muslim captors claiming that Islamic law grants them permission.[25] According to CBS news, slaves have been sold for $50 apiece. [1] In 2001 CNN reported the Bush administration was under pressure from Congress, including conservative Christians concerned about religious oppression and slavery, to address issues involved in the Sudanese conflict.[26] CNN has also quoted the U.S. State Department's allegations: "The [Sudanese] government's support of slavery and its continued military action which has resulted in numerous deaths are due in part to the victims' religious beliefs." [2]
Jok Madut Jok, professor of History at Loyola Marymount University, states that the abduction of women and children of the south by north is slavery by any definition. The government of Sudan insists that the whole matter is no more than the traditional tribal feuding over resources.[27]
It is estimated that as many as 200,000 people had been taken into slavery during the Second Sudanese Civil War. The slaves are mostly Dinka people.[28][29]
South Africa
Despite significant efforts made by the South African Government to combat trafficking in persons the country has been placed on the "Tier 2 Watch List" by the US Department of Trafficking in Persons,for the past four years.[47] South Africa shares borders with Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique and Swaziland. It has 72 official ports of entry "and a number of unofficial ports of entry where people come in and out without being detected" along its 5 000 km-long land borderline. The problem of porous borders is compounded by the lack of adequately trained employees, resulting in few police officials controlling large portions of the country's coastline.
Child slave trade
The trading of children has been reported in modern Nigeria and Benin.[30] The children are kidnapped or purchased for $20 - $70 each by slavers in poorer states, such as Benin and Togo, and sold into slavery in sex dens or as unpaid domestic servants for $350.00 each in wealthier oil-rich states, such as Nigeria and Gabon.[31] [32]
Ghana, Togo, Benin
In parts of Ghana, a family may be punished for an offense by having to turn over a virgin female to serve as a sex slave within the offended family.[33] In this instance, the woman does not gain the title of "wife". In parts of Ghana, Togo, and Benin, shrine slavery persists, despite being illegal in Ghana since 1998. In this system of slavery, sometimes called trokosi (in Ghana) or voodoosi in Togo and Benin, or ritual servitude, young virgin girls are given as slaves in traditional shrines and are used sexually by the priests in addition to providing free labor for the shrine.[34]
Ethiopia
Mahider Bitew, Children's Rights and Protection expert at the Ministry of Women's Affairs, says that some isolated studies conducted in Dire Dawa, Shashemene, Awassa and three other towns of the country indicate that the problem of child trafficking is very serious. According to a 2003 study about one thousand children were trafficked via Dire Dawa to countries of the Middle East. The majority of those children were girls, most of whom were forced to be sex workers after leaving the country. The International Labor Organization (ILO) has identified prostitution as the Worst Form of Child Labor.[35]
In Ethiopia, children are trafficked into prostitution, to provide cheap or unpaid labor and to work as domestic servants or beggars. The ages of these children are usually between 10 and 18 and their trafficking is from the country to urban centers and from cities to the country. Boys are often expected to work in activities such as herding cattle in rural areas and in the weaving industry in Addis Ababa, and other major towns. Girls are expected to take responsibilities for domestic chores, childcare and looking after the sick and to work as prostitutes.[35]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_modern_Africa
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The Price in Blood
Casualties in the Civil War
At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and some experts say the toll reached 700,000.
The number that is most often quoted is 620,000. At any rate, these casualties exceed the nation's loss in all its other wars, from the Revolution through Vietnam.
The Union armies had from 2,500,000 to 2,750,000 men. Their losses, by the best estimates:
Battle deaths: 110,070
Disease, etc: 250,152
Total 360,222
The Confederate strength, known less accurately because of missing records, was from 750,000 to 1,250,000. Its estimated losses:
Battle deaths: 94,000
Disease, etc: 164,000
Total: 258,000
I’ve got some extra air they can have.
LOL - are you serious?
I hope you are including the descendants of the thousands of blacks in the south who owned slaves. There were 3,000 black slave owners in New Orleans alone.
And what about the descendants of the black slave breeders? They sold their own children into slavery. Should they pay more?
Then there are the blacks who, when freed, petitioned to go back into slavery because they couldn't take care of themselves. Should those descendants get reparations?
Bullshit. NO ONE should have to pay reparations.
Why?.
By what rationale does any black skinned American today deserve any "reparation" payment for something that occurred over 150 years ago and 4,5,6 generations back?
Are we also to pay some level of "reparations" to the descendants of the Irish, Welsh, Italian, Polish and countless other nationalities whose ancestors endured discrimination and extreme hardship?
Granted, they weren't slaves, but by modern standards they were abused and used in violation of their constitutional rights.
And what about the blacks whose ancestors, or they themselves, did not arrive in America until well after then end of slavery?
The truth is that every descendant of immigrants who is an American today, black or not, should thank their lucky stars that somehow their ancestors came to America.
“Any reparations should be paid by the families that benefitted from slavery. The descendants of the Yankee slave traders and the southern slave owners should have to pay reparations to Blacks who are direct descendants from those slaves. Those who came to the US after the Civil War should have no claim to reparations or no obligation to pay reparations in this matter. Just because one is Black doesn’t mean he is entitled to any reparations for slavery.”
Nonsense.
You feel the 620,000 American dead in the Civil War wasn’t enough?
And the immense amount of money spent on the Great Society and other government programs?
People need to quit making excuses and take charge of their own destinies.
WHAT? Why do you think the descendants should have to pay or receive reparations? Are you guilty of any transgressions of your ancestors? Are you serving penance for those transgressions?
Where did someone come up with the retarded idea we owe people reparations for something that was rectified 140 yrs ago? The whole thing is just stupid.
They have it backwards. Looking at the difference in standard of living between the people of their African roots, the BLM folks are far ahead. They owe us reparations for bringing them out of poverty and destitution and providing them freedom, education, and jobs.
Many Union soldiers died for them.
The owe us big time!
Black Lies Don’t Matter.
No wonder they are upset. Just think of the wonderful land of hope and opportunity they were taken from. I can't understand for the life of me why blacks don't return to their beautiful homeland?
I’m all for paying them reparations...in Confederate dollars.
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