An editorial in a Canadian paper about US slave reparations?
The president that pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1964, with the help of Republicans, is the same president that ensured that the welfare state would do what the Jim Crow Laws could no longer do...................
Let’s remember that Democrats were at the center of the establishment of Jim Crow laws and never let the discussion of reparations pass without throwing that on the table.
I approve of slavery reparations in the following amounts:
$10,000,000 tax free for each and every individual who was held in slavery in this country while slavery was legal.
$5,000,000 tax free for every individual who has at least one biological parent who was held in slavery in this country while slavery was legal.
Everyone else needs to get a job and STFU.
We ALREADY paid our “slave debt” IN RIVERS OF BLOOD over 150 years ago.
Not a damn thing more from me.
They have sold themselves back into the slavery of the Democrat party for EBT cards. They can suck it.
We even freed Sheila Jackson Lee!
I’m all in favor of making the Democrats pay reparations for what they did.
Give them a once-per-lifetime choice:
1. No reparations and welfare.
2. Reparations and no welfare.
One or the other. Not both.
If there is one organization that owes reparations in America, it is the Democratic Party. No other organization has benefited from slavery and the oppression of blacks more than the Dems. No other organization has done more to terrorize blacks (by forming and protecting the KKK) and oppress them through legal means like Jim Crow laws. Let’s see the Dem Party pay $100 million a year to blacks. Then we can talk about everyone else doing so.
Just
no.
A fine black wine is poured. I think the blacks should pay reparations to America for fighting a bloody Civil War to free them from slavery.
Hey Canada. Go talk to England, eh? They were sold by Arabs and England shipped them here.
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“Until that moment, he had lived inside a black community whose limits were dictated by an array of so-called Jim Crow laws that, since the Civil War, racist state and local governments had imposed with viselike effects.”
Today most blacks still live inside a black community. Why?
Today most blacks vote in bloc for the Democrat Party. You know the Party that started the KKK. The party that did not vote for desegragation. The party that still treats them as if they can not make it on their own. So WHY???
As to reparations you can stick that where the sun won’t hit it... None of my family was muslim pirates or black in Africa that captured and sold blacks to the dutch and others. None of my family going back as many generations as we were able to trace ever owned a slave, bought a slave sold a slave etc. We did have one relative fight and get wounded in the Civil War. So no. You are not handing out any of my tax dollars to anyone that has been voting for the very people that hold them back for the past 150 years. That has nothing to do with me.......
The only “reparations” that should be offered should be vouchers for one-way flights to Liberia. The vouchers will be redeemed at the Amerian Embassy when the recipient renounces his American citzenship, fills out the forms and surrenders his American passport.
I may be bad, but every time I hear of reparations, I think of the movie “Cat Ballou” where Kid Shelleen almost drank himself to death.
“You could have killed him giving him fifty dollars cash at one time!”
The decedents of those who chose to remain have no claim to reparations. Besides, reparations won't fix what their complaint is - that their ancestors were forced to come here as slaves. Only returning to Africa will right that wrong.
Don't even bother to try.
I was recently talking with a man who has spent his professional life in public education. He worked tirelessly for Blacks’ civil rights. He was talking about how the system has failed. I asked him “What is the solution?”
Without hesitating he said “Segregation.” Lots of black educators he knows say the same thing.
Let the bastards collect it from themselves; it is far more likely that their ancestors bought, sold, or owned slaves than mine, since mine were poor Welsh who came over here after the Civil War. There are tens of millions more like me, who are white but have no descendant that have ever owned slaves, do these idiots think all the white people came over on the Mayflower?
Brown v. Board of Education decision was issued in 1954. Article (what I read of it, anyway) doesn’t make sense.