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I am descended from an Irish slave by the name of Jacob Shirey. He was bought out of a jail in Bristol England in 1775 and sold on the auction block in Baltimore Maryland in 1775. I have documentation and can prove this. I also have MANY documented dead or wounded Family members from South Carolina and Pennsylvania who died in battle trying to keep this country together and free the slaves. How much reparations do I get??

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Similar story along my family line, with a father and son who were indentured to the farm trade, and brought to Virginia in the 1680s era...to be sold. They both attained freedom in three years and became tobacco farmers themselves.

If you draw up the list....indentured slaves, the Chinese brought into California, Indians and so on....about a quarter of the nation will get some reparation situation.

Then you come to the amount. I think the Democrats idea is revolving around some check for $20,000 for each adult. Some of the people on the reparation line, are probably thinking more along the line of $100,000. I don’t see this politically coming to a happy ending.

The only reparation deal that I could laid on the table is some tax credit ‘bucket’ where you say 88-million Americans can be given $10,000 in tax credits which you could apply to your income level (lessening it) and thereby getting less tax on your income tax. This means you need to work, and you need to pay taxes...to get anything out of the deal. So for half of the millions in the reparations line, because they don’t pay anything much in taxes....they’d never exercise or use much of that bucket. You’d have to move ahead in life, to make use of it.

Careful, now — you'll get yourself banned from multiple ultra-leftist social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter for talking like that. I brought up exactly this point over at Quora and was threatened with banning after some hidden company doofus simply deleted my whole comment. It was that last bit of arrogant, one-sided censorship that moved me to abruptly cancel my membership, thus permanently removing all of my comments, most of which were arguably useful and on non-political topics. Screw them.

Truthfully, I went a little further than you. I asked straight out whether every single black citizen living today should be forced at gunpoint by the government to contribute to paying enormous reparations to the few remaining descendants of the vast number of white soldiers who died to free the slaves owned by a tiny minority of folks under a thuggish Democratic regime in the South. I specifically cited the incontrovertible historical fact that black tribesmen captured and sold other black tribesmen in Africa to Arab and other slave traders. Are black Africans and Arabs on the target list for "reparations"? What about all the Irish and other European refugees who arrived after the end of the Civil War? In what way were they, let alone their descendants, even remotely responsible for widespread slavery by Democrats?

I think somewhere along the way, I also asked about forced reparations from black citizens to the innumerable white victims of rape, robbery, other savage attacks, and outright murder by notably violent blacks across all sectors of society. More still, I pointedly asked whatever had happened to the literally trillions of dollars in welfare payments across the decades to blacks from white taxpayer money. You get the idea. As you can easily imagine, the shrill social justice howler monkeys went absolutely bonkers with hatred.

I am descended from an Irish slave by the name of Jacob Shirey. He was bought out of a jail in Bristol England in 1775 and sold on the auction block in Baltimore Maryland in 1775. I have documentation and can prove this. I also have MANY documented dead or wounded Family members from South Carolina and Pennsylvania who died in battle trying to keep this country together and free the slaves. How much reparations do I get??