I’m in favor of reparations for Irish Americans for the abuse we took.
Get over it! My Scottish family has. They were oppressed by the English. Other than the radicals, most Scottish just don't give a shit about the William Wallace history. They just want to live the good life. Sheesh.
That should just about say everything about his credibility.
Did we need to know anyhting more than that to understand his point!
Can’t have one without the other. After all, if they want reparations, the only humane thing to do would be to repatriate them to their “homelands” at the same time. They obviously aren’t Americans, right?
It’d be worth it to get rid of the deadwood. So, by all means, give reparations to each and every black person in America who wants it — providing they renounce their American citizenship, self deport to whichever “homeland” in Africa agrees to take them, and understand fully that they will NEVER EVER BE ALLOWED BACK IN.
Almost all American slaves were captured and delivered to white merchants by other Africans.
Is it not fair that Black African slavers be required to pay reparations, too?
$10 trillion (and counting) isn’t enough??
Oh, wait, there weren't any.
Enough is enough. I have rebuilt my world from scratch a couple of times in less time than that.
“The goal of conservatives is to polarize American voters...”
WTF?
Has this guy been in a coma for the past 3 and a half years?
Mohamed sold you into slavery, go get a refund from him!
I agree on reparations. For every Black person alive today who was a slave prior to 1865, we give them 40 acres and a mule.
It should surprise no one that the American Negro expects reparations just as they expect government handouts, it is called Welfare. Why should they do anything to receive money they didn’t earn or claim history that isn’t theirs to claim. True Americans of any race, color, or background work for a living.
I go with both. We give them the cash but with a clause that with it they renounce citizenship and use the cash to set up a new life back where their ancestors were taken from.
If they have such a love for Africa and think it would have been a better place but since slaver trades{more often than not their own people} sold the best and brightest to whites here,then here is their chance to return to their homeland and prove it. See how long it would take for them to figure out how rotten their homeland is and see how good they have it here.
Friggin crybabies.
Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. - What you preach is poison.
You must have a very black (morally speaking) soul.
Quite sincerely, ‘Pod.
Can the reparations be paid in lead?
We have already paid reparations in the form of the two worst, most costly and most wasteful wars in our history; the Civil War and the War on Poverty. We are long since square on the deal.
Reparations goes both ways, Benny boy. We fought a civil war, conducted a Reconstruction, instituted welfare, and a plethora of civil rights-related legislation. And you have, in YOUR words, a “brother” in the White House.
No one forces black women to bear children in fatherless families. No one is making young blacks fail at school. No one pushes them to commit the disproportionate amounts of violent crime that land them into the prison system.
Get over it, Ben. You want reparations? You got them already.. a long time ago.
Reparations are paid to the victim by the criminal.
I suppose Chavez will think it unreasonable that the recipients be obliged to prove that they are in fact descendents of slaves.
While I’m not a lawyer, I’m under the impression that in our legal system responsibility for a crime does not pass down to descendents of the criminal. So who will pay?
Ok. If we each front for a ticket for any African that wants to renounce citizenship and return to Africa then I am all for reparations.......