They still need to pay reparations to white descendants of the Irish who were held as indentured servants after being shipped here by the British without their consent. The reparations should be 40x that afforded African Americans because the Black slaves were valued at 40x that of white Irishmen, therefore hindered 40x as great as the Black Man. The Black Man was ‘da Man in those days, so they better start paying up to the white man if they bring up reparations. /s
I’m in favor....if it involves sending them to Africa one way with a loss of American citizenship, never to return.
I find it fairly hard to believe Danny Glover is worth more than the change in my sofa.
So they’re asking Danny Glover, a MILLIONARE actor, to come speak on behalf of reparations for African Americans.
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Danny Glover, who helped make Venezuela what it is today.
Dear Danny,
I never owned a slave.
You never picked cotton.
Move on, chump.
Simply trying to buy votes in any election. Like standing out front of a polling place with a bushel basket full of $100 dollar bills whining, “please vote for me”. Rediculous.
Reparations should be paid to every former slave. Not their descendants. Practically everyone is descended from an enslaved or otherwise oppressed people if you go back far enough.
“Who pays for them?”
Democrats do since they are the ones who owned slaves and started a war keep blacks enslaved. I propose all democrats pay reparations out of their own pocket and leave US taxes the hell out of it. The USA paid reparations already with the blood of 640,000 Union soldiers.
Every American, regardless of ancestry, should be thankful to live in the United States of America today. No matter where our various ancestors came from or the circumstances under which they came, we are all better off today than we would have been if they had never arrived. All of us are beneficiaries of sacrifices made by our predecessors, and we should be grateful for the birthright they bought for us.
Even millionaires like free things.
Why did John Conyers resign? Seems like he had a good racket going.
Black people ought to kiss the ground here and be thankful that somewhere in their families’ distant past an ancestor was driven from his African home by an Arab muslim and sold to a waiting ship, bringing him the the US.
Else if all that had NOT happened, chattel slavery (an Arab invention along with the cell phone bomb) would be unknown in the US and the present day black person would be some muslim’s chattel slave in some African hellhole.
Further, who pays reparations for the black slave owners - or the Native American, aka Indians, slave owners?
The Egyptian were North Africans a mixture at different times in their thousand of years of civilization of different skin colors - there were no slaves. The were either bonded (in debt and working it off) meaning they were very valuable, or willingly submitted to be owned to improve their lives. The concept of blacks as ‘inferiors and fit only for slavery’ comes from the still-current Arab muslim worldview, wherein beatings, mutilation, rape, and pointless murder are justified since blacks are inferior and a new one can be bought at any time; they are replaceable automotons.
America was the first country to end chattel slavery and Republicans are the people who did it - the Republican party was begun because of the Democrat need to have slaves.
Oprah wasn’t available? *SNORT*
Just keep picking at that scab democrats until you make a bloody mess out of everything.
I’m glad the question was brought up.
Considering they were already enslaved when european slave traders purchased them, i think they should try and get reparations from the arabs or current inhabitants of africa
1. My ancestors were too poor to own slaves. Therefore not one cent of my money should go to reparations.
2. Not all blacks in the US are descended from slaves and should not get reparations.
3. Many men fought and died to end slavery therefore their ancestors should be exempt from paying reparations.
4. Decades of affirmative action and social programs were a form of reparations therefore no additional reparations should be paid to anyone.
5. Why are they not going after the descendants of the Africans who sold their fellow Africans into slavery?
I remember Danny Glover picking cotton before the Civil War just like it was yesterday.
Let’s see. I can support “reparations” if it works like this: “Reparations” means making amends by paying money to an aggrieved party. So, having made amends, the issues related are to be considered by all, including the aggrieved, to be set right. The slate is wiped clean, because that is what the recipient of reparations agrees to. So, no more claims of racism, no more whining about America’s slave holding past, no affirmative action, no “white privilege”, no preferential treatment, no quotas. I”m sure all of you can add to this list of what would be permanently and forever off the table. Solved. Made whole.
In 2 years the people who had the money in the first place would have it all back anyway.
Glover enbodies everything I hate about the left. Absolutely everything.