Do you think white people should pay reparations for black slavery?

[ComradeCurze]

I personally think all white people, regardless of their status or ancestry, are to be held accountable. What are your thoughts?

[Danzigdawson]

There should be reparations when it can be proven that one's ancestors profited in any way from Black slavery.

When you step out of those boundaries, this kind of bold question becomes less justice and more of a propaganda tool for the KKK and other white supremacists and trumptards to use to depict anti-racist militants as unreasonable, crazy, irrational, etc. (See other comments below).

When it comes to "all white people"... it's like wondering if all Black people should be granted compensation, even in cases where their ancestors never left Africa and/or never were enslaved. Not all people of African descent were enslaved and it is not true that all white people profited or even approved of slavery.

The best way to make it up to the descendants of slaves would be to keep fighting racism with a vengeance and to keep promoting true socioeconomic equality for every single person until it becomes a reality.

... and i'd like to say that it's kind of weird to think that, in the whole history of the world, the closest thing there ever has been to an inferior race, were white supremacists. How dumb do you have to be to believe in that? Look at how vile, stupid, angry, pompous, ignorant and overconfident those assholes are, still shaping their mind using the stupidest kind of pseudo-science the 19th century had to offer. Look at their complete total utter fucking failures over the years: the confederacy, nazism, the alt-right, the presidency of trump... most, if not all, of which ended catastrophically and in a complete mess.

[jhl_x]

This is stupid. I'm white to non-white people because no one gives a shit about my Asian-Arab-European ancestry. I did no wrong to other people, and acquired what I have through work or because my parents chose to invest in me with what they acquired through hard work.

If you really believe in "reparations", then you believe every population that's enslaved another throughout history should pay reparations. This includes black people well, since they're not the only ones enslaved but were also enslavers as well. If you want to go down this rabbit hole, do whatever you want. I personally don't believe in this concept unless there are people who still enforce this system to this day, and I'm not one of them and don't respect people who think that I am.

[Anonymous]

Sure, when all workers everywhere get reparations for our ancestors being underpaid for centuries. And mothers get reparations for providing unpaid childcare for centuries beyond count.

[ComradeCurze]

That works for me.

[KelleyNice]

Only if they return to Africa. Those that choose the benefits of living in the USA deserve no money.

[DJB72]

Sorry but no.

I do think all are created equal and should be treated as such.

I do believe government needs to fund education into traditional black areas to provide equal opportunity for all - and not just America since I'm British living in South Africa and the poorest in society here (SA) still live in shacks I wouldn't keep a dog in while the top is run by billionaires (local currency) it's just now they're black not white

[andreasderjuengere]

I'm ''white'' - and I have nothing to do with the things that happened before I was born.

Born German (1963) - I also don't feel responsible for any Jew who still wails.

We should deal with the present and with the future - the past only gives us teachings and guidelines about where things can go wrong.

Or right.

[ChrisMaster69]

No it’s fucking stupid.

why should some girl living in Finland pay for slavery and exactly to who?

Questions like this just show how pointless and pathetic question askers are at times.

[MountAverage]

You seem confused. When people speak of reparations in that context, they're not demanding reparations from random individual "white" citizens, but from the government. It would be tax money, so from all of us (ideally though from the wealthiest, not from average working class people).

[nawtee_me]

And what do you think about black selling blacks into slavery? White people could not have gone to Africa to capture those who were sold into slavery or they would have been killed by the natives. Black people captured them and sold them into slavery.

Jews were made slaves to the Egyptians, should all Egyptians pay reparation's to all the Jews?

Maybe you should check out history before blurting out nonsense...

[HighValue]

Should all Black people pay reparations to Whites, Hispanics, and Asians for all the crime they have committed? Because at least millions of the Black criminals are actually still alive today and guilty.

[Anonymous]

If they them selves personally owned slaves, and the person seeing reparations was their slave, then yes they should pay, otherwise someone shouldn't be responsible for something shitty their ancestors. Should the child of a murderer be responsible and punished for what their parent did?

[KelleyNice]

RE: Should the child of a murderer be responsible and punished for what their parent did?
They are North Korea and they were in Joseon (the last dynastic kingdom of Korea, lasting just over 500 years).

[HanSwoloMode]

If white people should pay reparations, then we should have equal representation in that. Therefore, every civilization, race, group etc in history that has enslaved another, should be forced to pay.

I suppose that means we should have every human being on this planet pay reparations to nearly every other human being

Good Idea!

[cth96190]

No. It is an idiotic idea that would appeal only to someone who was so intellectually defective that they were incapable of understanding basic concepts.

It was white people (and only white people) who fought wars to abolish slavery.

[Wade12345]

No. It was blacks who sold the other blacks into slavery for a barrel of rum.

I've never owned slaves and two of my best friends have been black.

[Avicenna]

There's always some race huckster with their hand out. De facto reparations have already been paid in various forms, but no one should be demanding them anyway.

[Anonymous]

Nope. I wasn't a slave holder and you weren't a slave. So why should I give you money for something that happened between two other people? Plus if I remember correctly they did reperations after the Civil War. Too many people these days want money for nothing.

[Anonymous]

Over my dead body. You want to help blacks fix the crime and violence problem, restore the family unit, fix the schools and create jobs--all things commie demonrats prevent from happening because THEY WANT THEM THE WAY THEY ARE NOW. Dumbed down, and controlled

Somehow you idiots think mailing them checks making them even more reliant on the government is the right answer.

[Anonymous]

Yes, they should pay. They should at least do policies that will benefit them. By the way, it would be nice if Spain and the queen return the gold that belongs to Latin America. Especially the 700 sheets of gold that were stolen.

[Juxtapose]

Why don't you talk to the tribes in Africa who sold your people first? They made it possible and they sold slaves to each other as it was. Your ancestors are no better than any white person who has had slave owner ancestors.

[jshm2]

You're a bit too late for that, kiddo.

Those peoples grandkids are long long gone, never mind the slavers themselves.

[BeMuse]

Nope. Do you think Black people should pay reparations for White slavery?

[BeMuse]

Over a 300 year span 1.5 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa. The Barbary pirates attacked and plundered not only those countries bordering the Mediterranean but as far north as the English Channel, Ireland, Scotland and Iceland. Where's my reparations?

[BeMuse]

Pay up motherfucker!

[BeMuse]

I'll give you until Tuesday. Then I break your legs. Bitch better have my money.

[Danzigdawson]

1. Those pirates were muslims linked to the Ottoman empire. Some of them may have been Black, but the barbary pirates also enslaved Black people and other muslims, along with white or non-white christians.
2. They didn't specifically target white people as it was the case for Black people during the time of the atlantic slave trade. It was more like: "let's get anyone we can get our hands on", during raids.
3. As far as I know, they didn't justify their actions by saying that white people were an inferior, barely human race, who benefited from their enslavement, a race prone to criminality and barbarism, as it was the case in the south prior, during and even after the civil war.
4. Raids in northern places like england, Ireland, iceland were the exceptions, not the rule. They mostly concentrated their activities around the mediteranean sea and the the black sea.
5. After the first and second barbary wars in the early 19th century, those activities suffred a rapid decline and became more the business of criminals than a state-sanctionned trade.
6. In the United States, Black slavery did not cease until slavers were forced into freeing their captives after losing the civil war in 1865. By then, most european nations had already banned and condemned slavery. Who knows for how much longer the south would have held to their slaves if the civil war didn't happen?
7. Can you prove that one of your ancestors was in fact enslaved by the barbary pirates? It would seem more likely, considering the way you seem to think, that your ancestors could have been linked to the slave trade, and/or the confederacy, and/or the KKK, and/or the lynchings or racial purges that happened all over the United States during the late 19th century and the early 20th century (provided, of course, that you're an American).
8. Shut the fuck up, you stupid fucking asswipe.

[BeMuse]

@Danzigdawson Pushing lies just makes you look like an idiot. Your mom smoked crack when you were in the womb didn't she. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 White people were shipped to America as slaves. Your entire rant has been defeated by facts. Go hang yourself you ignorant loser. But first go get my money.

[BeMuse]

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[BeMuse]

It's always funny to see how dumb communists are...

https://www.brown.edu/news/2017-02-15/enslavement

[BeMuse]

Bottom line is Black people just out competed the rest of the world at producing slaves and selling them at market. They were really good at selling their own people out for a payoff. Obviously they had a much longer history of slave trading than the Europeans. It was a core commodity of their local economy. Experience gives you a leg up in a field of business. Everyone was fair game before liberty minded White people, said this slavery thing just isn't right, we need to put a stop to this... That didn't stop Blacks in Africa from trading slaves though. They were the last group on the planet to stop. Basically they ran out costumers, and the domestic demand wasn't high enough.

[kitkills]

I think that it's not the fault of an entire race, it's the fault of the people who were disgusting bigots, and the people in power who let that kind of person take over.

[USLegionary]

Yes totally and the southern Europeans want reparations for Africans enslaving their people.

[Anonymous]

No, it makes no sense. To my mind you'd need to demonstrate that someone today is directly culpable of something that happened in past generations.