Asclepias
Diamond Member
Where will the U.S. get that money from?
Why should taxpayers pay for something that no longer exists?
Why should taxpayers whose family came to America after the Civil War pay for anything?
Why should people pay for something they had nothing to do with ?
What unpaid Black Labor?
They had housing, clothing, furniture &,food they got money for personal needs, as well as doctoring when they were sick. Some got their own land to farm.
Many got land to farm after the war.
The vast majority of owners was not cruel to their slaves because each one that was bought cost plenty of money at the time.
The Plantation owners got what they dissevered which was;
Many large plantations were hard hit as the Civil War went on. Even the wealthiest land baron had little purchasing power when all he had in the bank were worthless Confederate notes, and many planters found themselves scrimping to survive toward the end of the war. Plantation owners also faced the wrath of invading Union forces, many of whom saw the Southern plantation as the embodiment of Southern evil. It wasn't uncommon for Union forces to vandalize and even destroy plantation homes, steal personal belongings, set free the slaves, and harass or attack the owners if they were home.
How about the Northern Families who lost sons and fathers to free them.
Of course what I said is not to infer that the life of a slave was pleasant. Even under the best circumstances, slaves were still considered nothing more than property, and even the best-treated slave still dreamed of freedom.
Slavery was abhorrent but the wealthy plantation owners were punished greatly for it and people today should not have to pay anything to blacks now because of what happened 150 or so years ago.
1. The US will get the money the same place they get money for wars and other things it deems important enough to tax people for.
2. Reparations exist to repair a wrong. The US allowed slavery and made laws to accommodate it.
3. Immigrants after the civil war take on the debt of all Americans.
4. See #2
5. The Black labor that went into building this nation for generations. some and many is not reflect of all Black slaves. Many is laughable to say the least. Unless you meant the land given back to the southern slave owners after reconstruction was destroyed.
6. I cant believe you even used this but then again a white person has no point of reference about what cruel is.
7. Dont really care what happened to the plantations owners nor do I feel sorry for them as they got their land back and were allowed to recreate their system of racial oppression by the US government. Look up the Black Codes and read up on Jim Crow before you shed a tear for white southern plantation owners. Besides what does that have to do with reparations.
8. Northern families fought to keep the Union intact. it was not to free slaves. They got paid with their checks from the US government and again it has nothing to do with reparations for Black people. Bringing that up is a diversion from the point that anything given extra to white union soldiers does nothing to repair the damage done by the US to Black people.
9. Please explain why the US should not have to pay when they failed to pay before? Please explain why Black people should not reap the benefits conferred on this country that they have been left out of. Its a consist pattern of fuckups starting with the founding fathers. The least one can do is atone for your mistakes. People with no morals are the only people that dont get that.
Regarding #1, ah, I see you must be a politician! You want to strap our great-great-great-great grandchildren with more debt to make yourself richer.
Why didn't you just say so? I'm certain that if you had and you told everyone you were a Democrat, you could easily get 50% of the vote without even trying.
If memory serves me correctly Republicans started wars that we financed. One that was a complete hoax and you are still paying for it. Our great great great great grandchildren will be strapped with much worse than debt if the racial issue is not resolved. The white opposition to it is amazing and reeks of the willful stubbornness of a tow headed slow child.