Posted on 05/09/2009 6:30:51 AM PDT by jxb7076
Reparations - The Law of Punishment and Reward
Anyone who captures a free person, brings them to another country against their will, forces them to do manual labor without pay, while physically and psychologically abusing them – denying them equal rights to resources are creating a moral and ethical system by which redress is inevitable. Although the era supported this type of behavior and it was acceptable by the legitimate government one could argue that no wrong was committed – except the one who was subjected to the treatment. For them, it was not consensual therefore it's illegal and degrading. Let’s say he/she was subjected to this type of treatment suddenly and unexpectedly. The psychological ramifications would be astronomical leaving mental scars for generations to come.
Let’s go a step further to say that his/her generation for the next two hundred years or more was subjected to this type of treatment from the time they were born to the time of their death. Let’s include the notion that the captured individual wanted to return to their home land and was not only denied the right, but was brutally killed for the thought. Taken a step further, let’s say the captured individuals tried to escape the brutality of their environment but was recaptured, ridiculed and tortured in the presence of thousands. And to conclude let’s say the captured people was suddenly freed – given the rights as free people, then the individual would probably sue and be awarded a lot money. That’s the law of punishment and reward.
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Obama’s ancestors sold slaves. He would be on the paying end.
Wasn’t it England that brought them here and wasn’t it Islamics who captured them for sale?? Go after them .....
Most of all, the slave trade ended in the USA in 1808. Read the Constitution. My advice, get over yourself and by all means hand them your paycheck. Moreover, my family did not own slaves, and my family doesn't owe them a blessed thing.
“The Court ruled that they were TOO LATE in bringing their case, and dismissed it.”
Asians are considered a privileged group of people, not like downtrodden dolts who squeal racism and get what they want.
“If so, when will others (Jews, Whites, etc.) be justly compensated for their ancestors being slaves?”
Whites and Jews simply learned that nothing is free and that what happened to their ancestors happened then and each day is a potentially clean slate. You can either continue to make the same mistakes or do something that will help you start over.
Yea - I like your thinking... Even God doesn’t hold the son responsible for his father’s sins. Imagine THAT!
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Anyone who captures a free person, brings them to another country against their will, forces them to do manual labor without pay, while physically and psychologically abusing them – denying them equal rights to resources are creating a moral and ethical system by which redress is inevitable”
The premise is all wrong.
Michelle Obama aside, whitey didn’t capture and enslave free people.
Blacks enslaved their own people, and when they began to have a population surplus , they unloaded their undesirable slaves for rum and guns.
wow, you’re really out there huh. You can’t read or you can’t think, I don’t know which. Get a sixth grade education and come back and read my post again.
A few years ago a black pastor spoke of going to Africa to preach at some churches there...
He said they walked from one impovershed village to another...
One was so bad that he turned to his friend, a white American pastor, and said “Thank God your ancestors came and rescued my ancestors”
PRECISELY!
And if it weren’t for rich white liberals, we wouldn’t even be talking about it.
In fact, if it weren’t for the welfare system created and operated by rich white liberals, most blacks wouldn’t still be on the federal plantation going on the 5th generation.
Bad grammar, no defense, and no capitalization... failed your GED I see. Better luck next time.
“My Ideologies are strickly Conservative”
Judged by one such as you. hahaha
As you know, blacks were slave owners. There were thousands of black slave owners in the south. There were also slave breeders. Do you think a decendant of a white non-slave holder should pay reparations while the decendants of black slave holders shouldn’t?
Of course it was blacks who captured and enslaved their fellow blacks. How do you propose their decendants should be treated?
I CLEARLY said what I meant. If you can find a slaver still alive today, charge him for reparations.
If you can find a black who was ever a slave then pay the reparations.
It can’t be done. There is none, as you all MUST know. Surely you know that.
Notice how most “rich white liberals” didn’t have to work all that hard to attain their status?
I assert that it’s a guilt complex that’s driving them to be libs.
To that I would add: Reparations means making whole, wiping the slate clean. The payment of reparations eliminates at once and forever the validity of any claim of handicap due to racism. You are now on your own.
Yeah sure, Conservatives believe in Reparations. (sarc) Try that on someone else. This gal knows better.
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