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1. While blacks were being transported to this country (helped by other blacks in Africa, mind you), while they were slaves, and for a good part of the time after slavery ended when they were being discriminated against, my own ancestors were being oppressed by the various Czars of All the Russias. Hence, my entire family had no involvement in the historical injustices faced by blacks. Hence, I will refuse to pay any taxes if our government decides to pay “reparations” of as much as one red cent to the distant descendants of slaves.

2. Even IF my ancestors ALL were slave owners over 150 years ago, I would still refuse to pay reparations because I DID NOTHING WRONG.

3. My ancestors were slaves in Egypt (as documented in every Bible), a nation that many black activists claim was a black African nation. Where are MY reparations? I’ll take a symbolic $1.00, plus interest at the very modest rate of 1% per year - for ALL Jews. That works out to about $182.2 trillion, but I’ll be generous and leave $2.2 trillion on the table for black slave reparations (take a deduction that from what the blacks will pay the Jews). That means about $12 million for every Jewish man, woman and child. Pay up soon, my family could really use the $48 million to pay a few of our bills.

4. The truth is that there is almost certainly not one single living human being who is not descended from slaves - not ONE, not even the Queen of England. Shall we all pay each other reparations, or shall we do the sensible thing and just say that we cannot right every historical wrong and simply resolve to make sure that there is no more slavery? Let’s start with the continuing slavery in Africa, especially that practiced by black Moslems against Christians and others.

My ancestors were slaves in Egypt (as documented in every Bible), a nation that many black activists claim was a black African nation. Where are MY reparations? I’ll take a symbolic $1.00, plus interest at the very modest rate of 1% per year - for ALL Jews. That works out to about $182.2 trillion, but I’ll be generous and leave $2.2 trillion on the table for black slave reparations (take a deduction that from what the blacks will pay the Jews). That means about $12 million for every Jewish man, woman and child. Pay up soon, my family could really use the $48 million to pay a few of our bills.

You're speaking as a grown up - and you're right. So right your words comes across as 'obvious'... wish that it were so...

Members of the black community were sold on the idea that getting others to feel pity for them - or feel guilt - was the way to 'get stuff'. We have liberal elites to thank for that one. In the short run it works - in the long run the rest of us start resenting them.

My family fought in the Civil War to help free the slaves - I don't feel they 'owe me' for that... There's something to be said for doing what's right and moving on. I'm tired of the black nonstop pity party. More blacks have been killed by black gang members in the last 15 years than all the blacks lynched by racists whites in the history of the South. By far...And money?

Liberal ideas of victim-hood and marxism-lite don't work. Bad cultural ideas propping up their culture is what's keeping them poor. Not something that happened a hundred - two hundred years ago.