[2ndDivisionVet]

My ancestors were held as serfs by European nobility in the Middle Ages. Where are my reparations?

[EGPWS]

Diaspora Solidarity

Okay, after all we have our ADD, we may as well add DS to the symptom's list.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Find those slave traders and bring them to me, I’ll see to it that they pay those reparations!

[himno hero]

send the bill to africa...
there are places there which continued slavery into the seventies (1979s)!!

[ElkGroveDan]

My Neanderthal ancestors were decimated and driven out of Europe. I want reparations.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

European and American countries that enslaved African people and scattered them in the African Diaspora should pay reparations for their slave crimes.

Why? No American alive today has ever owned slaves in the US. No American alive today has ever been a slave in the US.

For the sake of argument, let's assume that it's undisputed that we are all somehow responsible for the deeds of our ancestors. What percentage of Americans had an ancestor who owned slaves? As the son of an immigrant, I know I didn't. Why should I pay a cent? I'd bet most Americans today can correctly claim that none of their ancestors ever owned a slave.

And why should this generation of adult blacks alone be entitled to a reparations payment? What happens when the payment is spent? Won't the grandson of a recipient 50 years from now have an equally valid claim to reparations? Should we assume that anyone descended from a slave is entitled to a reparations payment until the US ceases to exist? Given time, every single American will eventually have ancestors who were slaves (as well as ancestors who were slave holders) - at what point should reparations stop?

[ronnie raygun]

Why don’t they dig up the chiefs of the tribes that sold them into slavery, maybe they can pay thier reparations!

[AlaskaErik]

European and American countries that enslaved African people and scattered them in the African Diaspora should pay reparations for their slave crimes.

First they need to get a factual perspective on the situation. It was blacks and muslims who did the enslaving.

[Will88]

The most affluent black people on earth are the descendants of slaves in the West.

I once saw a proposal that the average income of the descendants of slaves should be calculated along with the average income of today’s Africans. If the descendants in the West earned less than Africans, they should receive reparations. If they earned more, they should pay a surtax for the excess affluence they enjoy compared to those whose ancestors remained in Africa.

A few years back a black reporter for the Washington Post returned from a trip to Africa. One thing he said was: “Thank God I had an ancestor brought to the United States of America as a slave.”

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

African slaves were not taken freely from Africa. They were sold to Europeans.

Bad business decision by African leaders

(a huge portion of the childbearing African population was taken as slaves, thus impeding Africa's development).

[PeteB570]

I’m an American taxpayer held in bondage by the IRS and the US Government.

Where is my reparations?

[Wil H]

European and American countries that enslaved African people and scattered them in the African Diaspora should pay reparations for their slave crimes.

So by the same criteria, children bought here illegally by their parents, or born here to illegal alien parents, are responsible for the actions of their parents and should be deported along with their parents since we are establishing that descendants have responsibility for their ancestors' transgressions.

Q.E.D.

[Graymatter]

If it hadn’t happened that way, none of them would even exist, would they? Maybe they should be paying us.

[gjbevil]

I’d be glad to pay reparations to all African-Americans living in the U.S. for past slavery as long as we can offset what we owe them by the value of the benefit inured to them of living in this country compared to living in the Hellhole of Africa. Given that, they owe us about a billion or so, at least.

[Chode]

they can kiss my skinny white azz...!!!

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[Gay State Conservative]

99.9% of today's Africans would pay *us* for the right to carry a US passport.Perhaps the best solution to all this is to offer any American black who wants it free passage to the capital city of the African nation of their choice.Upon arrival the US citizenship of that person would be revoked.

For each such American who accepts this offer an African will be given the chance to qualify for a Green Card.

Problem solved.

[Grizzled Bear]

Stupid people have been pissing me off. Where’s my reparations?

[Gay State Conservative]

My ancestors were driven out of Ireland by the British.It could,perhaps,be said that the Brits owe reparations to *those ancestors* but they certainly don’t owe me anything because when it comes to nationality I won the lottery on the day when I was born in the United States of America.

[Normal4me]

How many hundreds of BILLIONS have we given them already? Let’s call it even and wish them luck......

[aruanan]

African diaspora wants reparations for slavery

Go to the Arabs and Africans who sold you into slavery.