Posted on 07/09/2006 6:03:15 PM PDT by JingoJim
Figure out the average annual income of a black person in the USA vs. same for one in Africa. I want my share of the difference from every black American if in fact my ancestors are responsible for bringing them here.
The slaves are dead and the people/corporations that used them are dead ....it was a bygone era ..... we are not beholding to them .... why should this generation pay for that generation???? And then too, who gets taxpayer's money??
I once asked a black coworker who is in favor of this what her reasons were. She couldn't give me an answer. She simply saw this as free money. (BTW, she didn't know when her ancestors came to this country.)
Never gonna happen.
Thomas Sowell brilliantly explains why this is a dumb, illogical idea.
Yeah, my parents came from Hungary in the 1950s. My family had nothing to do with slavery, so why should I have to pay.
Then again, maybe my family should be paid reparations by the Russian communists who tortured my grandfather to death and oppressed the Hungarian people for over 50 years, forcing my parents to flee Hungary with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
Nothing pisses me off more than people who think that I am somehow "privileged" because I'm white.
Please mail my reparations check to:
55 W. 125th Street
Harlem, NY 10027
Sincerely,
Slick Willie Clinton, Esq.
Arab slave traders sold their ancestors into slavery, so they should get all the middle eastern oil money.
Tight or loose pack?
Reparations for slavery would lead to the armed insurection of every white man that has a set of balls and a weapon. I have both.
"This matter is growing in significance rather than declining," said Charles Ogletree, a Harvard law professor and a leading reparations activist. "It has more vigor and vitality in the 21st century than it's had in the history of the reparations movement."
Some of my ancestors were murdered, raped and enslaved when the moors from North Africa sacked Sicily, can I get some reparations from them?
I'm all for reparations - as long as they're figured net of the entire cost of the Union war effort in current dollars, including a reasonable figure for the Union dead. My rough math suggests that black Americans are probably net debtors on the cost of freeing them.
Only in a pig's dream.
Actually, most of the slave traders were the local tribal "kings" and chiefs in the Western African areas from which the bulk of the slaves came. Perhaps African Americans should look to them, or their descendents, for compensation. Oh, I forgot, they're all broke except the Nigerians have some oil.
Mid-term elections are coming up. Time to roil the base.
Well, if they don't hurry up the last living person to have been a slave in the United States will have died...
Oh, wait a minute... That was 1865?
I am all for reparations as long as my family gets reparation for the those who died to give them the freedoms they currently enjoy.
I am from the North.
Some of my family died in the Civl War just so they could complain a hundred years later.
I would personally pay reparations, to any real, authentic, 175 year old slave that presents himself...
A fair bet since the word 'slave' comes from the word "Slav" or those of Slovak or Slovenian heritage.
I don't have a link handy, but Thomas Sowell has written a book about the history of slavery in and outside of America. I'm sure the word is translated differently from other older cultures, but the specific word slave comes from the Slavish people according to Sowell. He was talking about it on one of the occaisions when Walter Williams subbed for Rush and had Sowell as a guest.
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