Who should get reparations and how much? What if you’re half black? 10% black? What if some of your ancestors were slave owners and some were slaves, what should you get then? How should you prove your ancestors were slaves? What about those that don’t have proof? You want the government to dedicate time and resource to try to dig in each persons ancestry? Who’s gonna pay for the digging? Who’s gonna pay for the reparations? The government? Then that’s tax money coming from everybody, including blacks and Asians and so on. Should white people get a bill to pay or have to pay extra tax? What about all the white people who don’t have ancestors who were slave owners? How are they gonna prove it? Government digging again? Or should they have to pay anyway? Why? What about all the black slave owners and their ancestors? What about the Africans who sold your ancestors as slaves?
People don’t seem to think before they talk about wanting reparations. Like dude you were never a slave, it ended 157 years ago, so shut the fuck up and move on with your life. You don’t see for example the jews constantly playing victims like that for things their ancestors, or even living relatives, went through. You, just as so many black americans, are brainwashed into thinking you’re some sort of victim and the reality is the only ones keeping you and other AA down are yourselves. Wake the f up and claim some responsibility for your own lives and your trash communities. You did that. It’s not white folks or the government doing drugs, killing each other, being deadbeat dads, living on wellfare, ruining your hoods and what not. It’s your people. Dedicate that time to build great communities and lives instead. Study, work, invest, take care of each other, build stable families. But nah. Everything is always someone elses fault. Blacks as a group (oh yes there are many exceptions for sure, there are of course many great hardworking blacks without victim mentality) must be the least responsible group of people there is in the US. Nothing is ever your fault. It’s always the white people, the government, the police, racism, slavery and who knows maybe even gods fault. Ffs. If you’re not where you want to be in life then that’s on YOU. You had and still have the chance to do anything. Yeah, slavery sucked but it ended long before you were even conceived, long before even your grandparents were conceived, and thank god for that. So now go and do great things with the freedom you’ve had for generations already. Or don’t and keep playing victim while the rest of the world gets even more ahead of you so in another 157 years your decendants still sit in poverty in the hoods whining about slavery.
Fucking no, they didn't live in slavery, the slaves are fucking dead lmao. This is people who want to be victims, people that support this are stupid, brainwashed and probably were/are spoiled kids that never had to really fight to get what they needed.
There's no reason why someone who worked their ass off to make their money has to pay a person because they're brown or black, that right there is racist, white having to pay brown and black for something that happened years ago and has nothing to do with the new people that's here alive.
Man, my great grandma and her whole family were black, black af, she had my grandpa after an adventure with a white man, my grandpa married my grandma who is white. I'm white af, if my ancestors were black as the night am I in the right of saying I need slavery reparations? NO! I didn't live slavery, my grandpa didn't live slavery, not even my great grandma and her grandma, they were people who might have been poor but they worked to make their lives better, and they succeeded.
I do not support ANY reparations. Nobody is alive today that had anything to do with slavery. The debts of a parent are not for the child to pay. The Civil Rights Act put an end to this issue and so have many other laws. Blacks have just as much opportunity as others and they were not the only ones ever enslaved.
In the U. S. there is no excuse for someone to not succeed if they have the drive. There are ways for anyone to succeed if they have the will to do so. Don't have a computer? Go to the library? Cannot afford private school? Pay attention to what the teachers tell you. Are you homeless? There are resources for that.
At this point, the only thing holding blacks back are their own excuses. MANY MANY MANY blacks have overcome both their own backgrounds and racism geared against them to succeed. I have mentors who are black and went through way tougher things than I can even imagine. I'm so damn tired of blacks acting like they cannot succeed because of someone else. I grew up white in a black hood and still succeeded. Anyone from the hood knows how tough that is. Blacks, put the energy you use for excuses into actions to succeed and watch what you can accomplish. Rise, don't whine.
Let it go... stuck in your self-imprisonment... Reinforcing the Democratic Party ORIGINAL Slavery owners. Your precious Democratic Party did not Value life then NOR now with Abortion !!! I know this because my Great Grandad had slaves on the farm who were housed, fed, educated (home schooled), AND He was a Southern Democrat. ALL DEMOCRATS, City or Country, see People as Cattle.
He softened later in life and paid for some advanced education for his... but as a highly positioned member and funder of the Democratic Party fought like the devil to prevent the end of Slavery. Democrats, your representatives, are STILL your Masters. Both the Harvard Democratic Elite, during Reunion on the bus, drive through Inner Boston and the Like and point, wave, and say how cute those people are... And the Democrat Leadership in the country do the Same.
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I have Native American Ancestry, so sure... not really though, cause then where does it stop, Japanese for the internments going to be included too, and every other bad thing that has happened in the history of the country?
I do support it, under specific conditions though. Someone needs to have been a slave and the money has to come from the slave owner that owned them.
Then I 100% agree with that. There is already existing laws in place for that though, so no new laws need to be passed. If someone is forced to work or be a slave and not get paid, they can get it from them... if they have assets.
As for tax payers giving a group of people based on race money cause of things that happened to their ancestors but not actually to them, then no I do not. It will not help them in anyway in the long run.
If everyone else's ancestors can build a life in this country with nothing but the shirt on their backs coming off the boat, African Americans should be able to do the same with more, 150 years after the end of slavery.
Even racism couldn't hold them back forever as they continued to improve approaching parity up until the 1960s. The stagnation and decline that happened thereafter is a direct result of corrupting cultural influences and the collapse of the black family. Both a direct result of the welfare state targeted at them.
Its almost as if someone in the 1960s saw the devastation communism brought to its captive populations and decided to direct that towards African Americans.
I think it would have made sense to give land to freed slaves in 1865, but the ancestors of slaves have benefited from living in the US since then and it does not benefit the country to have people looking for reparations rather than working to better their lives. It's devastating to a society if people don't believe that they have a chance and reparations furthers that mindset.
One of my grandfathers was a slave during WWII, which is a lot more recent than 1865. No one in my family goes around demanding reparations for it.
Only if I get my white slavery reparations, first!! My people were slaves LONG before they were!
Secondly, if they want them, they should go to Africa to get them because it was THEIR people that SOLD THEM to us!!
Thirdly, they want to get paid for this shit, go back 150 years or so and get the money from the people that owned their great grandparents!! This entire reparations bullshit is just another scam for blacks to get rich and not have to do a lick of work to earn it!! Get a fucking job like the rest of us!!
No, you shouldn't benefit from something that happened generations ago. America has already admitted it was wrong and fought to abolish it. That should be enough, paying reparations now only serves to link slavery with blacks rather than deal with modern issues.
Why do honest and hard-working citizens who never commit anything have to pay for someone else crime a hundred years ago? Don't we already have many life support systems in places, especially in the US? On what basis do you punish those innocent people for someone else sins? It feels ridiculous from a logical point of view. Any sort of reparations that is pretty controversial like that should be done in a form of voluntary money, not by tax money.
No. That's stupid. The US already literally gave freed slaves an entire country as reparations before slavery was even over back in 1824. It's called Liberia.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Liberia
Take your ass over there, if you hate the US so much. Or better yet, go to Russia and be like Brittany Griner.
Slavery reparations is just another form of slavery. It's the theory that two wrongs make a right.
Slavery reparations mean that people who had absolutely nothing to do with slavery, nor did any of their ancestors have anything to do with slavery, must work for free so that the fruits of their labor can be given to other people. That's called slavery.
Sounds like a good idea. Not really because of some moral grounds, dont even need to look that far to make a decision. It just makes financial sense since its a demographics that is under-performing in USA and mainly due to less inherited wealth which gives them a worse start in life. Giving them a cash injection is just good for stimulating the economy at this point by bringing them closer to where everyone else is.
No, cause then every group should have gotten reparations.. African nations that participated in slavery should also give us reparations.. Some Native American tribes should also give us reparations.. Slavery was just the nature of the world at that time.. Great Britain and America actually ended the normalcy of slavery with African and Arab nations being some of the hardest nations to abolish it, and still haven't done so..
Obviously you cannot claim to be a "fair country" when you're down as historically being unfair.
White slavers who released slaves back then were given reparations by the state. The released slaves were given nothing but their freedom and a life of discrimination for their part, by the US state.
Natives too have a claim in many states. But not sure what you think Mexicans have to do with it.
No.
1. No former slaves are still living.
2. No former slave owners are still living.
3. It will reward those whose families did not live here during the slavery period.
4. Some African-Americans were actually slave owners and their descendants would be rewarded while abolitionist families descendants would be stuck with part of the bill.
There are likely other reasons,
Yes and No. Right now, a lot of black people aren't ready for such large amounts of money because we wouldn't know what to do it and how to keep it. Sure pay bills, buy a house, find another job if possible. But how would we keep/build upon it tho mm? I think if the government gave us a class on money than sure I be all for it
Nope do you support slavery reparations for all White Americans with European Ancestry?
Nobody deserves respirations for something that didn't happen to them.
No, I don't. We didn't live back then, what people back then did is not our fault, and those who think it is should give their land to whatever Indian or other native tribe that lived where they currently lives and move to a place where nobody has ever stolen land from anyone
First i want reparations from every stupid motherfucker that voted for biden.
No, they were not slaves themselves and the other people were not slave owners. If your mum killed someone, would that be your fault? No! Wrong generation
100%. Show me proof that you were enslaved and I will give you reparations
''you'' can't buy yourself out of the injustice of ''your'' ancestors.
Shame lasts for ever.
(that also counts for my own culture)
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