Ummmm, no.
1. Nobody alive owned slaves. None alive are legally culpable. No black alive today was an American slave. Their descendants were and are free people.
2. None of the people who migrated to America after slavery are liable. Any blacks that came to America after slavery would not be eligible anyway.
3. To say only whites and their descendents have benefitted from slavery is ridiculous. Blacks in America have benefitted much more by just being in this country than anywhere in Africa. The lack of a mass black exodus back to their African homelands is a huge piece of evidence supporting this.
4. If we are to give reparations to blacks, we must give them to a number of other racial and ethnic groups who have suffered real discrimination as a class throughout American history. We will also have to include the Irish, Italians, Polish, Greeks, Russians, Slavics, Germans, Chinese, Japanese, hispanics, and more - because these peoples were also unfairly discriminated against because of their origins.
No reparations ever. It’s all over. Nothing to see here. You aren’t slaves. The fact you’re on welfare today, or taking gubmint handouts has nothing to do with whether or not your ancestry has slavery in it or not. The fact you didn’t learn anything in high school cause you were trying to be cool doesn’t have anything to do with slavery. Take responsibility for your own problems, and that the biggest reason why you are the way you are, and are living the way you are living, is YOU. Not slavery.
Slavery is a crutch, an excuse for you not to be responsbile for your life. Your pet reason to blame anyone else but yourself.
No reparations ever.
Worth repeating:
“No reparations ever. It’s all over. Nothing to see here. You aren’t slaves. The fact you’re on welfare today, or taking gubmint handouts has nothing to do with whether or not your ancestry has slavery in it or not. The fact you didn’t learn anything in high school cause you were trying to be cool doesn’t have anything to do with slavery. Take responsibility for your own problems, and that the biggest reason why you are the way you are, and are living the way you are living, is YOU. Not slavery.
Slavery is a crutch, an excuse for you not to be responsbile for your life. Your pet reason to blame anyone else but yourself.
No reparations ever.”
Umm... do you think we could get McCain to say that to the cameras if the subject gets raised during the debates?
It would win the election for him, right then and there.
- John