Exactly. My grandparents came from Italy in 1910. There is no way I am paying.
“There is no way I am paying.”
You have already paid your share. Barry will TAKE the rest.
I don't give a crap when your ancestors came here. To say you don't owe because your ancestors didn't come here during the slave period is the same as saying others do owe. No one alive in the US today has ever owned a slave in the US. No one alive in the US today has ever been a slave in the US. No one alive today owes anyone reparations for something that happened long ago and to which reparations were already paid in the form of hundreds of thousands of white men dying to free the slaves.
So just shut up about when your forefathers came here and say it like it really is: No one owes, or is owed, reparations. It is just another way to rob people, period.
My family is native American and Irish who came over in the late 1800’s. (after the civil war) We ain’t paying no more reparations! We’ve already paid enough for something we had nothing to do with.