[NYCVirago]

I actually think that is another possibly viable alternative to cash payment reparations. 40 acres and a mule on a repo-ed family farm or gov't owned land in the great plains is not a bad way....very very few would take advantage of it (with the caveat that they actually have to live on it for say a decade). It would remove the issue from politics.

You cannot be serious. Giving in one bit on reparations won't remove the issue from politics but increase reparation demands from every group with a grievance imaginable. And the white middle-class taxpayer who never owned a slave, or even said a racial insult to a black person, will end up footing the bill.

[blanknoone]

You cannot be serious. Giving in one bit ...will end up footing the bill.

Real Politik is compromise. As I said, I would oppose it on principle, but it would be smart politics. And if footing the bill is transferring the huge tracts of gov't land into the private sector, I'll foot that bill any day.

On principle, I think we should pay reparations to the extent that any Afrincan American that is demonstrably financially worse off than the average person in sub-Saharan African, they should be compensated. That is, absolutely none.

Another alternative is to offer a free plane ticket to Africa for any slave descendant that choose to renounce their citizenship.

But in real politik, this is an issue, and we have to use the best way we can. If that is to fight the income tax, or to reduce gov't ownership, I think that is a reasonable way to use the issue.