Our stupid ancestors bought ‘product’ from AFRICAN SLAVE SELLERS... People who had been selling humans for centuries.
We didn’t invent the slave trade and we shouldn’t have been temped into that evil. It was like buying stolen goods. We didn’t invent the crime but we profited from it.
The people responsible for the slave horrors were the people in Africa who kidnapped, captured or bought the unfortunate ‘rejects’... No one bought ‘the French’ or the English or the Irish BECAUSE CIVILIZED CULTURES AND PEOPLE DON’T SELL THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS.
So blacks want reparations? Get them from Africans... they can pay 90% and we’ll pay 10%. Then we need to charge the Africans for what it costs us to END SLAVERY HERE, END IT IN AFRICA AND AROUND THE WORLD. We put a stop to their evil... and they owe us for that.
We MAY not "sell" them, but we damned well DO trade them.
Ever watch a re-apportionment session? 🤪
I do not bother much with that angle.
We are simply not in arrears to former slaves.
Had anyone ever been so when the former slaves died without bringing a lawsuit to claim their back wages any possible claim they may have had died with them. Their descendants have no Standing to bring such a suit themselves.
Then there is the whole ex post facto and no working corruption of blood aspects.
American descendants of slaves are not owed one thin dime on account of slavery.
Bringing Africans to these shores was a catastrophic mistake that will likely prove fatal in the end. And yet those of African descent who are here now benefited from that slave trade or they would be living in mud huts dodging lions, crocs and cobras as we speak. They have the easiest lives of any African descendants in the world and hate it.