All things being equal, my ancestors never owned slaves, and shed blood during the Civil War to free the slaves....so don't plan on coming after me or mine.
Of the free blacks that were removed from Africa for slavery in the new world, only 6% of them ended up in the United States. These 6% were the lucky ones.
Every people has been slaves at one time or another.
The Greeks enslaved and were enslaved.
The Jews enslaved and were enslaved
The Romans the same.
Only the current crop made it an essential part of their identity.
>>"Reparations is not about money being taken out of every white person's personal bank account and handed over to blacks, as the spreaders of misinformation can make it seem," Lamb said. "Individuals do not pay reparations. Reparations are what a government pays a people it has wronged ... with tax dollars."
LOL.
Where in h*ll does she think those tax dollars come from???
Before she goes after my hard-earned money, she ought to get the Episcopal church to sell all its assets!
What about over 600,000 deaths in the Civil War?
This has nothing to do with slavery. This is about dividing and weakening America in order to advance socialistic world government. Do not make the mistake of excusing these people as well-intended, if naive do-gooders. They are evil liars who mean us all ill.
I believe slavery was very wrong. But I also believe they are about 120 years too late. The people that needed to pay for the crimes of enslaving their fellow man have been in their graves for longer then anyone has been alive. And to make the innocent pay for a crime they did not commit, is to me, a crime in it's self.
How about a free one way ticket to the African Country of their choice.
I'm amazed she has the brain power to remember to breathe.
Want to save these people some time and money? Give them this link:
http://www.radical-conservative.org/certificate.html
when i read this item in the record this morning i nearly spit up my coffee when the dumbass said it's not coming out of your own bank account but from tax dollars.
My contention is this, my family on both my mother's and father's side, only came to this country during the mid-20th century. They didn't own black slaves in either country of origin (ireland & germany) so why the hell should I have to pay reparations through my tax dollars???
The above has been going on for more than thirty years and is nothing new.
There have been lasting negative effects and complications from slavery, but being the ancestor of a slave is not the same as being one yourself.
Neither myself or anyone in my family, had anything to do with slavery, so I harbor NO guilt over it and am sick and tired of people attempting to make me feel guilty about it. Furthermore, I deeply resent the constant effort among Liberals lecturing to us about slavery and it's damaging effects, as if we never thought of it ourselves, don't understand it and lack compassion about it.
Thanks to the Good Catholic Sisters who taught us and the wonderful people who raised us, we are well acquainted with the evil history of slavery and discrimination against Black Americans and find it abhorrent. Thus, regarding this issue we don't need it rubbed and hammered into our already sensitive consciences.
They can start by collecting reparations from whoever sold them into slavery back in Africa two ... three ... four hundred years ago. Whether it's the tribe in the next jungle over or Arab Muslims.
I have a better idea and one that is much more equitable. The blacks should repay the slave owners for the loss of their property through illegal government action. The North should also pay the South to rebuild their cities and farms which were destroyed in the war. If we can rebuild Europe, Japan, and Iraq, surely we can rebuild the South.