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Europe should be the ones to pay it. They’re the ones that brought it over here. America fought two wars to end that business.
Payments should only come from the southern states that owned slaves.
Doesn’t the $22 trillion spent since 1964 on the war on poverty count as reparations? What about Affirmative Action, minority set asides and probably dozens of other programs?
This is to secure the black vote in the mid-terms, 2022, and beyond.
Unfortunately, this isn’t going to play well with Latinos.
Ok, reparations now. Assuming it is a worthy cause, and it isn’t since there are no living slaves left to pay, How many trillions of dollars will that cost?
We can’t seem to spend money fast enough on a federal level. Either we will have a massive tax hike to pay for it or we will print more money like we have been doing.
Hyperinflation is inevitable.
If this country is so evil then I support a program that would give a one way ticket to anyone of any race to anywhere in the world upon surrendering the person’s US citizenship and passport.
We can't do anything to help anyone who was a slave in the US because they are all dead. Meanwhile there are millions of people who are still held in slavery today and no one is making any effort to help them. Maybe because most of them are in Muslim countries.
Now for the “funny” part of this. Under no plan by the pro reparations side does one dollar go directly to a black person. It would all be administered by Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, or people equally as nauseating. Even under the best case scenario from their side it’s all a scam for race pimps to siphon off money directly to themselves. The bigger the bag of money, the more for them.
And do 300,000 dead Union Civil War soldiers count in the equation?
I’m African-American, if you believe Africa is the Cradle of Humankind. Where do I sign up?
I am fully in favor of reparations...to be paid by those who actually owned slaves to those who actually were slaves. Otherwise, not so much.
Not one person in my family was in this country prior to the 1890s, with most coming between 1910 and 1925. Once here they were, themselves, subjected to discrimination (though not as bad as blacks have been, to be sure). This includes my mother, who was told point blank in the late 1950s not to apply to certain schools because they simply did not admit Jews - she is STILL ticked off about that. My kids were born about 40 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed. Why would my mother, I and my wife, and my kids have to pay anything - we had NOTHING to do with slavery or Jim Crow.
Why would Barack Obama get anything? His mother’s family was involved in the slave trade, his father’s family stayed in Africa, and his “suffering” includes being elected POTUS twice and having a net worth of over $50 million, and growing. How about Oprah, net worth of over $1 billion? How about recent immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean who are black - and never experienced slavery or Jim Crow? How about my (lily white) friend who is, technically, an African American (he was born in South Africa, came here and later became a citizen)?
This is SO incredibly crazy and unworkable that I hope that it will lead to a huge backlash against Biden and the D’s. Either that, or if it goes through, perhaps the recipients will then be denied welfare benefits of any type, owing to the wrong of slavery having been rectified with reparations (yeah, I know, there’s a greater chance of a flock of flying pigs blotting out the noonday sun than this, but I can dream, can’t I?).
I will identify as a black person. Were’s my money?
Obviously, step #1 should be $50 cash and free immediate transportation back to their country of ancestral origin...
I want reparations for the damage Polish jokes have done to the other half of my ancestry.
I want a damn thank you note from the NAACP for what my Irish great grandfather did for them in the civil war.