[rktman]

Thank you Mr. Massie. BOOM! Shakka lakka! Maybe that's what one gets from fauxsnooze now. Don't watch 'em so they can claim whatever they like.

[The Duke]

Maybe *they* should be paying reparations to the descendants of those who lost their lives fighting in the Civil War for the purpose of freeing the slaves?

[V_TWIN]

“based upon melanin and the ability to prove an ancestral connection to slavery in America”

Based on melanin.......I’ve seen many instances of American blacks judging each other based on the lightness or darkness their skin.....lighter skinned blacks somehow believed to be superior to darker skinned blacks.......American blacks are more than likely THE most racist group of people on the planet......even among each other.

[butlerweave]

Will blacks accept the government checking their background all the way back to slavery , what about criminals will they still get millions ?

[Sacajaweau]

I’m trying to figure out why they deserve reparations. They should thank their ancestors for what they endured and not try to make money off of it.

[econjack]

The entire premise is wrong, but assume that reparation is to place the injured party in a position of financial indifference. That is, what sum of money leaves the plaintiff indifferent to the absence or presence of the event. I did such calculations as an expert witness over a period of 40 years, using my Ph.D. in economics as the basis of my testimony. I did the same for blacks in the US by comparing wage rates in the three African nations that exported slaves to the US with the average wage rate of blacks in the US. I then did a present value analysis for just over 150 years. It turns out, blacks owe non-blacks in the US just over $640,000 each.

My question is: What line of reasoning was used to arrive at a number wrong by more than $1.84million?

[Mama Shawna]

Good gawd, does anyone proof read anymore? I just read the excerpt, not the full article. If it’s anything like the excerpt...

[sport]

They don't deserve it. But they are going to get it. Why? Because the Politicians know that no matter how much money they give them, inside of 30 days, the local drug dealers will have every penny and they will be happily smoking or using themselves to death. Then they can be replaced by Mexicans and South Americans on the Democrat Plantation.

[anton]

I’m starting to think that I’d rather have them on a handout than sitting behind a desk determining when I get my passport or whether my building permit is being denied. Let them stay home and the country’s workers (me) can just support them with an allowance.

[2nd Amendment]

Most of my ancestors came from Wales and England and were forced off their land by enclosures and tax burdens. They came to America for a better life working in the coal mines of West Virginia and southern Ohio. How much reparations am I entitled to because of the maltreatment of my ancestors?

[californian by choice]

I have always had this thought, their resentment is not so much because their ancestors were slaves, but rather because they are black.

[I want the USA back]

Reparations would reward self-induced failure and give the recipients an additional reason to hate the people whose money would be taken to pay for reparations.

[Vaduz]

‘Self-Induced Theology of Victimology’

The Ashanti Empire and Dahomey tribes that dominated the Ivory Coast areas of Africa.

Is where the money needs to come from if they want to blame anybody.