[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

What about decendants of whites who owned no slaves or freed their slaves? What about the decendants of blacks who owned slaves? And what about folks decended from both whites and blacks? Do they get to pay reparations to themselves?

[Impy]

a paltry 21 percent of whites are in favor.

2.1% would be too much.

[ozzymandus]

I had an ancestor who served in the Union army and ended up in Andersonville prison camp at the age of 16. How about some reparations for me? (He survived and lived until 1927, BTW)

[disndat]

However, the question remains as to what it will take — what event or series of events — for the tide of public opinion to turn on the question of reparations for slavery.

When idiots like this realize NO ONE alive on this planet had anything to do with slavery in this country back then.

[proxy_user]

Read the comments - three out of five are spammers promoting work-from-home schemes. I guess they know where their audience is.

[JPJones]

“Given the existence of millennial racism, and unresolved issues of white privilege among white millennials — not to mention the racial hostility still exhibited by young whites against Black people on college campuses and elsewhere — there is much work to be done.”

I’m offended and in need of a safezone from such hateful rhetoric.

[bigredkitty1]

Reparations? That’s what the last 50+ years of welfare has been. Between affirmative action and racial set asides in college admissions and hiring, there is no reason for reparations. They do not want equal opportunity. They want equal outcomes, without having to put in the equal amount of effort.

[BwanaNdege]

How does he manage to fit all this ‘fine print’ on the back of his Race Card?

Just translate it into Ebonics and it will all fit easily:

“Gimme Dats”

[Dilbert San Diego]

This would be a big slippery slope.

What about reparations for American Indian tribes?

What about reparations for homosexuals who were discriminated against in the past?

What about reparations for females, who were discriminated against in the past?? Heck even today we are lectured that females make 79 cents on the dollar and all that. Will women be able to file lawsuits for their reparations?

What about reparations for various Asian-Americans? Heck, Chinese-Americans were discriminated against, slotted into running laundries and Chinese restaurants. Did Ben Cartwright pay Hop Sing a living wage and give him full benefits???

What about reparations for those who worked in factories and industry before modern environmental laws and labor standards were in place?

What about reparations for those who worked before we had a minimum wage law, and were paid subsistence wages for their jobs?

What about reparations for those who lived before the modern welfare state, and suffered due to not having EBT cards and a social safety net??

This could go on and on. Take this concept that somehow we owe reparations not to people living today, but to their descendents for some wrong doing done when judged by modern standards, well, you open a can of worms.

[Jonty30]

Reparations is a politically dead issue. Nobody outside the black community believes anything is owed and every other minority would be violently opposed to paying a penalty tax for which they share no history about.

[Fungi]

How about reparations to Jews for the Holocaust? Logically correct, but it does not stop there. The Armenian genocide, the genocide of Christians in India, the pogroms against so many and it never ends. Everyone is a victim and all the rest must pay, unfortunately, when everyone is a victim, there are no others to pay.

[BwanaNdege]

A 2016 Fusion Issues Poll surveyed 1,045 adults from ages 18 to 35.

In this day & age, for most individuals, 18 is definitely NOT an adult (responsible citizen) and some of the 35 year olds are still "students" and dependent on Mom & Pop.

[DeFault User]

I had one great grandfather who owned slaves and fought for the Confederacy. The other great grandfather fought with the Union in the Army of the Potomac. Both survived the war. I figure one cancels the other if we are doing this based on ancestry.

[jsanders2001]

Haven’t they had enough reparations, already? I’d say millions of white men and women working an extra day a week to pay for freebies is way more than enough. The taxes Americans have been paying the last 7 years have been astronomical despite the taqiyyan liar’s claims that he lowered them. Talked to one guy who did pretty good that told me he paid over $100,000 in taxes in 5 years time. Sorry but that sounds pretty damn high to me...

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

That’s because every single one of them is a racist, commmiting untold microaggressions and occasionally milliaggressions and everything White America has done for Blacks is insufficient and always will be. Deal wit’ it.

[WENDLE]

Why would young people want to pay more than there parents already have? We do get credit for welfare and free houses and stuff since 1968 don’t we? Obama phone? This needs to stop anyway. Been long enough to get them on their feet?

[Crucial]

The slaves deserved an apology and more but you can’t apologize to people who are dead. Their “descendants” are also descendants of other non-slave families and even other races and have never felt the touch of a whip but live quite well and if not is usually their own doing.

[dfwgator]

David Chappelle nailed how Reparations would work in real life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg6J1Skptbs

[Missouri gal]

Abraham Lincoln said that the Civil War was the price of slavery. It killed 1 out of every 5 males then living in the states, and especially devastated the South. After that, some states paid direct reparations to former slaves.
The sixties brought welfare, the Job Corps workforce training aimed at helping unemployed blacks, desegregation, busing whites to black schools and vice versa, employment quotas, enrollment quotas for universities, and who knows what other quotas. In 2008, “White Guilt” helped push Obama into the White House.
Now, we have the “snowflake” movement, where nobody with a white face better say one word in opposition to the opportunistic persons of color, no matter what they do.
Maybe some economist will add it all up and decide blacks owe everybody a whole bunch of money.

[biggredd1]

reparations should be a one way ticket to africa.