Name one nation that hasn’t had slavery in it’s history.
We inherited it...and then we fought and died to get rid of it.
If anything, its death here should be a source of pride.
I would say the biggest mistake was allowing a progressive scale income tax.
Payments only to those who were actual slaves. Deductions for all the welfare payments and crime fighting costs. Exemptions for those who were not alive during slavery.
If you want to buy a black slave today you can! In Africa.
The Democrat’s Jim Crow is arguably much more harmful than slavery.
The author is an f’ing idiot. Slavery was not a mistake. Slavery was a condition that had existed thousands of years and continues in parts of the world today. Our nation made the decision to end slavery and paid dearly for it.
YOU would be WRONG!
America's greatest mistake was allowing its USSC to legalize the murder of its most innocent citizens in 1973.
" Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness " is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence. The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their creator and which governments are created to protect.
Slavery is a horrible stain on America, but it pales to insignificance to murder, for nation mentioning life in its Declaration, not only in numbers (over 60 million), but also in suffering (cut to pieces with a knife inside your mother's womb).
If, as Lincoln suggested, that the death and destruction wrought by the civil war was divine retribution to the U.S. for possessing slavery, saying that God may will that the war continue "until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword," and that the war was the country's "woe due."
How much more shall divine retribution to the U.S. be for the murdering of its most innocent?
Wake UP, America! May God have mercy on you!
Affirmative action was supposed to correct the effects of slavery.
Now the same people claim reparations are needed.
And that’s in addition to bending the knee to “Critical Race Theory”.
Oh, don’t forget, your support for defunding the police.
Then there’s getting rid of your white privilege (even though you never had it), and removing math, English, tests, and any kind of western civilization education from schools because it’s all racist (and sexist, too).
And forfeit your cars or anything that has wheels, because it’s likely those were racist inventions as well.
Slaves were offered for sale in Africa by Africans.
If slaves weren’t offered for sale in Africa, sailing ships manned by white people would not have been able to bring them over in massive numbers to badly infect the New World with slavery.
The United States as an institution had very little to do with slavery.
Slaves were private property. If a slave escaped, a bounty would have been offered up by his/her owner. Escaped slaves probably only made it to another state rarely. Private bounty hunters probably handled the return of most of the interstate escapees with no government intervention whatsoever.
$14T. $350,000 per person: that 40 Million recipients.
Currently there are 40 million blacks in America.
So this guy is saying that every black in America is the descendent of a slave? How about those who just arrived last week?
Those of you with Consumers Power as your utility provider..
Check out the details of your monthly bill..
You’re ALREADY contributing to reparations.
Greatest or not, it was a mistake. Putting aside the lost lives and destruction due to the Civil War, it endowed us with a bi-racial society and the constant bickering and acrimony that accompanies it as we forever try to placate the aggrieved.
The moronic demands for "Reparations!" and the idiotic screams of "Racism!" will never end. Every time the clueless liberals get angry, they scream "Racism!" or "Reparations!" (or both). Maybe the best approach is to just ignore all of it. When people scream at you, "Reparations!" or "Racism!", simply respond, "No thanks," and walk away. I usually just laugh at the total idiocy of it all. But every once in a great while, I get suckered in and respond (like I did here).
The Royal Family/Meghan World War III is the newest example of it. The whole Royal Family is "Racist!" so the entire Royal Family must be "CANCELED." Then the liberal Piers Morgan defends the Royal Family and the liberal Sharon Osborne defends Piers. The clueless liberals then mindlessly assume Mr. Morgan & Ms. Osborne must be "Racist!" and thus "CANCELED." That's why virtually every Hollywood celebrity is viciously, relentlessly attacking Sharon Osborne. Liberal comedian Steve Harvey now calls her "Sharon Ass-Torn." The rare few Hollywood celebrities who side with Ms. Osborne don't dare publicly express their opinion. Or else. CANCELED!
This Royal Family/Meghan World War will drag out for a very, very long time. Already, some journalists are wondering aloud whether Meghan spells the end of the Royal Family. Heck, even the producers of the U.S. TV show, "The Talk," say they need at least 1 1/2 weeks to intensely "review" the Royal Family/Piers Morgan/Sharon Osborne/Sheryl Underwood "issues" before the show can air again. And it's only going to get worse from here on out.
I love that the foolish liberals are now "CANCELING" each other. They're desperately trying to destroy The Royal Family, Piers Morgan, and Sharon Osborne. And any other liberal who dares stand up and defend any of those three will also be destroyed and "CANCELED" by the clueless liberals. ROFLMAO. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of liberals. They all get what they deserve.
It won't end until the clueless liberals themselves get tired of being relentlessly attacked and "CANCELED" by their fellow hateful liberal "friends." It's funny how the liberal comedienne Sheryl Underwood directly said to her co-host Sharon Osborne on the show, "Right now I am talking to a woman who I believe is my friend." LOL. What a load of BS. What she actually means is, "You're a racist and no friend of mine." Then when the liberal Ms. Osborne directly asked Underwood what she said that is racist, the liberal Ms. Underwood cluelessly responded with a totally irrational mumbo-jumbo word salad that made literally no sense whatsoever. Liberals.
I read the article. At the end the writer suggest moving on from reparations and this I believe is the best approach. So he gives some good background and gets his point across. I don’t know why so many are trashing him.
Previous attempts at selling reparations to Congress had the cash going to Black organizations run by the likes of Je$$e Jack$on and Al $harpton but with BLM I bet that the BLM will collect billions and billions. Doubtful that Democrats will allow any money to go the actual Americans that somehow can prove they are decedents of slaves. How much “blood” counts 1/4 or 1/16 to qualify - this would be an incredible task to figure it out.
If an interracial couple in any scheme would the White wife have to pay the Black husband sort of because her tax money would be a transfer payment to her husband. We have people in my family that are 1/4 Black but have blond hair and blue eyes and would never be identified as Black would they get cash? Would Kamala Harris’ family slaves that migrated here to the USA get cash? Would Kamala have to pay because her family owned slaves.
Black Americans living in other countries get cash?
Would Black athletes who make millions every year get cash?
No, women’s suffrage is a plague.