Posted on 03/18/2015 7:20:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I offer a baseline respect. Whether it goes up or down is up to the individual.
Pretty sure that a group that kills at a rate seven times that of the rest of society owes big time.
Police and prisons aren't cheap.
Same goes for replacing stolen property and medical treatment/burial of violent crime victims.
And the crime costs come before the even greater cost of raising all their fatherless babies on our dime.
I’ll agree to reparations as long everyone who takes it also moves their ass back to Africa and surrenders their passports and renounces their US citizenship forever.
There were thousands of blacks in the south who owned slaves.
My ancestors emigrated here around 1900 from Eastern Europe and lived in New York City. They didn’t have an easy life, but they worked at it. They and their descendents had nothing to do with slavery or segregation. So, no, we don’t owe anything, nor do any other Americans alive today.
P.S. Not one word of the Muslim slavers who raided the villages and imprisoned the African natives in the first place.
“Black” takers owe American makers, big time, for the loss of the War on Poverty.
Only if they use the money to relocate to Africa!
Rather than say no, the politicians feel it's much easier to say pay them.
Yes, but in a different way than is meant here.
Those slaves were most often bought from black leaders/owners in Africa who sold them into eventual US slavery. So yes, white have blacks to thank for a chunk of slavery.
Nope. But I'll pitch in for airfare for the whiners who want to renounce their citizenship on the way out.
Also the majority of Latino population are of European/White ancestry! They just made a pit stop in South and Central America. Think Pope Francis. Second generation Italian Argentinian.
One of my ancestors in the 1500s was enslaved by indians twice.
The second time he married an indian woman and a group split off from the tribe and took up living in cabins and farming as if they were whites.
I’ll pay that, but they have to reimburse me for my ancestor who survived years at Libby Prison eating rats.
I don’t owe them for something I didn’t do. I can’t apologize for something I didn’t do. Let neurotic guilt-ridden white liberals apologize if they want to, but I pass.
Well liberal white Americans do.
They believe in junk like reparations and therefore they are the perfect stooges volunteers to pay this debt.
I am more than willing for our liberal brethren to sell themselves into indentured servitude to make up for this crime against their delicate sensibilities.
Barky being half and half will only need to be a part time indentured servant.
How are US “blacks” doing financially compared to those left behind in the various African countries their ancestors were expelled from. That would seem to be the correct economic comparison.
Bingo.
Wow, I did not know that. I just read up on this, thanks to you.
I am sickened by yet another disgusting example of man’s inhumanity to man.
If the ancient Egyptians were black as black nationalists claim, would these same black nationalists admit to owing reparations to the descendants of Jews who were enslaved by the Egyptians?
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