Asclepias
Diamond Member
Until 1865.
Is this pertinent? By then several generations of Black families had been mind fucked and passing it on to their descendants.
Never heard of reparations being paid for nothing. If they were please link to it.Sometimes, but not always.
So what? Lots of people get fucked over and don't get anything for their troubles. Even if slavery was wrong, why should someone get reparations for something that was legal to do in the first place?
Thats not the point. The point is that reparation were promised then taken away. No one got fucked over like Black people. Reparations should be paid because slavery was wrong as stated in the first point and the US became an economic power in which Black people were not allowed to participate in until recently.
So what? There also aren't any systems in place that benefit the decedents of the Irish or Indentured Servants or drunks killed by the feds ordering denatured alcohol be sold during Prohibition knowing it would kill people.
Again not the point. For one Irish were not affected to the extent Blacks were. It did not last anywhere near as long affecting multiple generations. The Irish are free to rally for their own cause. That is not my concern. But thanks for the history. i will look that up.
The difference is the reparations were paid to the people who were actually harmed, not to people a century later.
Not true in all cases nor the point. Some of the Japanese had died leaving their children to receive the reparations. There is no time limit on or a stipulation on who gets the reparations.
Why should I pay for the sins of anyone long dead?
Because what your country allowed and profited by has never been rectified or made right.
Because they were never paid for something that affected their descendants. That payment should go to their descendants.Well, considering it was the dead guys who were hurt, why should anyone but them get anything?
Church it up all you like, you want free shit because someone you never met suffered.
Free would imply my ancestors did not work for and did not suffer because of it. Thats not the case. i dont want anything free. I want the money my ancestors should have been paid. Only deadbeats who refuse to pay their bill see it as free.