“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”
It has nothing to do with fear. It has to do with having dollars taken out of my pocket to pay for something I had nothing to do with. When you talk reparations you have completely lost me. No one who was a slave prior to the Civil War is alive, therefore, no one deserves reparations for being a slave. Moreover, no one who enslaved people prior to the Civil War is alive. Ergo, no one who was a pre-Civil War slaver is available to pay reparations. Getting the government to pay is absurd. The government’s money comes from the People, therefore demands that the government pay reparations is idiocy, since you would be penalizing people who had nothing to do with the decision to enslave.
Here it is from a different direction. I have 7 ancestors who were abolitionists and died during the Civil War in an effort to free the slaves, since this is what the war was about to these people. I want reparations\rewards for their efforts to free the slaves. Pay me. I figure in modern terms, the reward for the sacrifice of their lives in this effort is worth about 4 million dollars in lifetime employment earnings for each of those 7 ancestors. These descendants of slaves owe me 28 million dollars.
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So you remember that one billion Euro settlement (for 30 years) that Germany agreed to last week.....for having killed around 75,000 natives out of Namibia around 120 years ago. The payment to go to the Namibian government? The one that the two tribes affected by the killing.....which only number around 12-percent of the population of the country today?
Well....the two tribes are dissatisfied and said over the weekend that the mess is not finished.
The two tribes want 477 billion Euro, over forty years....ONLY for their tribes.
Odds of Germany agreeing to this? Virtually zero.
Odds of a civil war brewing out of this mess? I'd say that we just went from a one-percent chance, to a 30-percent chance.
Blame on the civil war and who started the mess? Well....yeah, it kinda leads back to Germany.
THIS is where the whole *reparations* game will end up.