Not even a nice try.
Considering how much Americans have dished over and wasted in $ Trillions $ on blacks with welfare, “community improvement programs”, prisons, their schools, their colleges, and now the hiring process where unqualified candidates get hired over 2 or 3 qualified candidates - based on race...I’d say we’ve wasted enough money and time even debating this.
The losers and clowns that keep pushing this just want to keep whitey on the hook for their own failures and lack of adaptability to the modern world.
Darwin’s law eventually does pan this little problem out.
See Haiti for any references. Oldest “Black Republic” and still a basket case over 200 years later.
I have no problem with paying reparations to descendants of slaves.
I just think that the reparations should be paid ENTIRELY by the Democrat Party, which should be completely liquidated to provide the funds.
And also, there should be a fine for every registered democrat in America, which would go towards reparations.
Fair is fair. Why is America always blamed for slavery, while the Democrat Party — the Party of Slavery, Segregation and Jim Crow gets off scott-free.
Let’s put the blame where it belongs, and collect the damages from the guilty party.
It amounts to trolling.
My family came over from Germany in 1870 with nothing but an accordion and $10. Great Grand Pa Hallebush got a job at a Church and wrote several hymns. Churches were the record companies back in those days if you think about it.
So I am sorry for that part of our history, where need for slaves was replaced with agriculture machinery, But we got thru it and you became citizens who can vote and work hard like the rest of us and improve you lot in life. My WW2 Dad defined success as, did you live better than you did at home? Well I did, how about you. Folks gave be an education and I applied it.
Long story short. I don’t owe you anything.
Should have subtracted the value of food/housing/clothing provided to the slaves (which was probably superior to what they had back in Africa).
And, half the total, whatever it may be, should rightly be assessed to the (primarily Muslim Arabs) who sold them into slavery originally.
Either way,debt repaid.
Prove that I was here when your slave relative was enslaved
As the son of legal immigrants, one side of the family dates to the 1700s and the others to the 1890s-1913, can I get reparations for money wasted on illegal immigrants, on government redistribution scams, etc.? Seems my family has been penalized for being here legally, for surviving, and being successful.
Check’s in the mail.
Pay them all to go back. The break even payment would be staggering.
What about taxes not paid?
Over 90% would be destitute in 5 years and they would be whining for more.
This really is not very hard. All living people who were slaves are owed compensation by those who held them in captivity.
Anyone who was not a slave, receives nothing. Anyone who did not own a slave owes nothing. That is common law.
a 150 year old debt that was never presented to an estate, is null and void.
Thanks for playing!
I don’t think that the UK has that much in their budget what with they started it and all.
Can we first deduct the cost of Johnson’s Great Society?
They already got 40 acres and a mule after war was over.. I can’t help it if carpet Baggers came down and swindled it from them..
What if my ancestors were poor and illiterate - and not only did not own slaves, but fought with the North to free them?
And what about mixed race blacks, who are, like Obama, half white, and half black - they only get $3/4 million, right? What if they are 75% white? They only get $375k, right?
What if I have worked among blacks for years to help them get ahead, and have helped their children be educated?
And what about blacks and their descendents who came here after slavery?
Lastly, how can you punish someone for a crime they never committed and that one of their ancestors did?
This man claims to be intelligent, but he is an idiot.
I’ve really got to arm myself, in case of a reparations-inspired plundering by angry Blacks.
(And yes, I’m aware that Black Freepers and many other Blacks won’t be participating in such a thing.)
In the meantime, the lady who cuts my meat at the store is bi-racial. Does that mean she will only receive $750,000 dollars?
PING!
Minus food, clothing, shelter, child-rearing, etc...
Seems to me that the slave descendants might owe descendants of the owners.