Posted on 04/07/2023 8:57:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I guess I’ll have to check the black box, since I have been paying for the great society for my whole life. I have been enslaved by the federal government and I want my gibs!
Race, like gender, is not a scientific construct.
It’s subjective.
You can call yourself anything you like these days and demand that people respect it.
Become ungovernable and this crap will end.
My people wuz Kangs back in the Egyptian Pyramid daze.-— ping—— So reparations now! I will settle for five million dollars to set me up in me new abode in Nigeria or sub-Saharan whatever. Where we can be Kangs again! In Wakanda.
Not the stupidest idea government ever did, just one of them. We’d actually need an AI search to find the stupidest because there’s so many.
I don’t answer their stupid questions. I answer the number of people in the household and for the race question, I check Other and write in American.
Last year we got the 40 page American Community Survey. I have no idea what happened to it. Must have gotten lost somewhere around the house.
The ancestors of many Jews were slaves in Egypt
My ancestors were the slaves to the Roman occupiers of Britian.
There is the family legend that the initial owner after the Battle of Great Swagemore Flat was a Roman Consul named Quincius Pompei. He was said to be amiable and not harsh in his treatment of slaves.
If Africa is indeed ‘The Cradle of Civilization’, then we are all “African-Americans”.
Just sit down and have a beer with Dr. Gates.
He’ll find it for ya.
Actually I would totally enjoy making part of the “official record” the fact that my family was still in Europe when America was sorting out it’s little slave problem.
Line up for my money. There’s a possibility that one ancestor owned one slave sometime around the Revolution. I guess I’m guilty.
Not all slaves were black.
Slavery was a universal institution for 99%+ of human history.
Until those pesky Christians got involved no one even thought there was anything wrong with it.
No one wanted to be a slave of course, but no one had trouble with the concept of slavery. That was just the way it was.
So, everyone stand in a circle. Now pass the person to your left a quarter. All past acts are now paid for. Everyone get back to work.
I think if we want to stop cyclical poverty we need to target education in poor communities, scholarships etc. Not race but family wealth based.
According to 23 and me, I’m 0.2% Broadly Sub-Saharan African and 0.2% North African. I guess I’m black and get some of those reparations!
Ashkenazi.
Since the US officially banned the import of slaves in 1810 would not those imported after the ban be the problem of those individuals importing them and not the fault of the US?
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.—Kipling
Reparations were paid in full, 1861-1865 on the altar of Human Sacrifice.
Over 700,000 dead
Tens of thousands of arms, legs, eyes destroyed
Lively hoods and families destroyed.
I have no idea of my ancestors slave status.
Should I also notify them if any of my ancestors died
in the Civil War?
Didn’t think so...
I did a DNA test .8% sub saharan african and .8% North african, and also a descendant of slave owners. Can I pay myself reparations? It might erase my guilt, lol!
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