If we are a nation of immigrants who fled the hardships of our former countries for a better life, then why are those immigrants now responsible to pay reparations to descendants of slavery in the United States?
Immigrants fled their homelands to get a fresh start here, and now they are being asked to pay for slavery here when their ancestors were being persecuted in their own land?
My family fled the pogroms of eastern Europe and Russia at the turn of the 20th century. After being kicked out of their ancestral homeland, why should my family pay for what happened in the United States in the early half of the 1800s? See the movie Fiddler on the Roof for what it was like for my own great-grandparents before they emigrated to the United States in the 1910s.
That's the quandary that the left will find themselves in when the details of "reparations" are finally produced.
-PJ
Well some of us come from families that have been here for the whole ride, and ended up shooting at each other back in the unpleasantness between 1861-65.
Not wanting to virtue signal but I’m from the Union side.
Why should we pay? Already paid at Antietam, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, etc. On the Reb side, they lost everything in most cases. G-G-Uncle was paroled at Appomattox by Gen. Grant with the remainder of his regiment...all three of them. Then he was deprived of his civil rights and moved West to be with the Union side of the family, it was safe from the Scalawags and Carpetbagger governments. Reconstruction was a hate crime targeting White Southern males.
So when is enough enough?
We all know the answer: never.