-reparations???
No! I'm waiting for all the usual suspects to show up to refight the War Between the States. It's entertaining and informative until the name-calling starts. ; )
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
Don't get me started. I deserve reparations for my Irish ancestors in the South who worked harder than slaves for less compensation.
See post #27 on this thread quoting a pre-revisionist textbook on the South.
My wife's ancestors had title to 4 million acres. Between military conquest, treaty revisions, and getting screwed over "back taxes" they lost all but a very few thousand. (That was the entire tribe's land).
The slaves didn't have a pot to pi$$ in without their owners, unless they were given their freedom, as many were before the war on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.
Not all were black, not all were owned by whites.
Why not tap the Arabs who sold them (instead of converting to Islam, what a joke!)
The owners who were forced to free their slaves lost their investment and recieved no compensation in return. What about their reparations?
There is no way to administer "reparations" fairly, so forget it.
Before you turn on the flames, keep this thought in mind. I hold no bias against anyone over any issues of color or race. It is just that this 'issue' is being used to continue to foment racial unrest by the socialist liberals with empty promises of money for nothing. D@mned few southern families have much (if anything) left of plantation estates, the Northern Carpetbaggers got what the Union Army left of those.