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They have already paid...through the nose.OK. Then let's make parental responsibility retroactive. Let's investigate all the White men who fathered babies by African slave women. How can we make those White guys pay for their children?
Every man is a slave. Just try not paying your property taxes and find out.African-Americans are the only demographic in this country who were subjected to legalized slavery.
Why? What have people today lost? And after a century of reparative programs by the government already, if they don't count, why should we think paying more formal reparations would count for anything either, with the demands just ongoing? When are you repaid, for what, and who decides that? Many blacks in this country now (at least 20%) were not even born here much less had relatives as slaves 2 centuries ago.Reparations are due to the descendants of enslaved Africans.
Then nothing in the future will either. You just want another free handout. Meantime, blacks are by and large mostly just a huge burden on society, taking much while giving little. What keeps you here? Want a ticket back to Kenya? Be glad to buy it for you. And what are reparations to the American Indian? To all those wrongly incarcerated? What about the Japanese who were interred here in WWII? Then there are the women who for generations were denied jobs and education and kept in the home. Seems EVERYONE has something to gripe about!Nothing you said in the OP justifies us not receiving our reparations.
Says you. Tough shit.And we have NOT been compensated already.
In reality we came from Europe mostly, and that institution was more like Roman slavery when it arrived. But is soon evolved to be the race based peculiar institution.Actually slavery came from Islam in Africa. They were the source of slavery, the metaphorical crack dealer or prostitute on the corner tempting the rest of the world with their goods.
America was the first nation that codified the outlawing of slavery and did so just 80 some years after it's birth.
By comparison, parts of Rome lasted over a 1,000 years and Rome never relinquished their appetite for slavery or for the oppression of others. Every race of man was enslaved under Rome. The same goes for Egypt, the original African Slave Trade who dealt in slavery for thousands of years.
Meanwhile in America just some 80 years after the birth of America men died trying to abolish slavery and free the slaves from The Democrat Slave Owning South.
A metaphorical blink of an eye in historical terms.
Did you ever think God took Africans out of Africa to save them from Africans, and Africa?OK. Then let's make parental responsibility retroactive. Let's investigate all the White men who fathered babies by African slave women. How can we make those White guys pay for their children?
LOL!! Fuck off.African-Americans are the only demographic in this country who were subjected to legalized slavery. Reparations are due to the descendants of enslaved Africans. Nothing you said in the OP justifies us not receiving our reparations. And we have NOT been compensated already.
You should ask NewsVine_Mariyam for her opinion on this. Maybe it will educate her about what an open debate is about.Here are the problems with reparations to blacks in America:
(1) It is a grift. There is no amount of money you can pay to blacks that will stop the "trauma" and other B.S. Therefore, it would be a bottomless pit that never achieves its goal. So on a utilitarian level, it is not a wise plan. On an ideological level, it is straight wealth re-distribution, which does not comport with our system which values freedom and liberty of the individual.
(2) There is no objective measure. This relates to the first point. But it is worth noting separately in order to point out how arbitrary any such regime would be. Arbitrary and capricious laws are not things to aspire to having in a just and civilized society.
(3) Who is the aggrieved party to be compensated? Nobody today has been a slave of white land owners. We are several generations removed from that. Do we limit the eligibility to just those who are descended from slaves, like California is talking about? It seems to me that if slavery spoiled the entire American experience for negroes, then everyone should be eligible regardless of whether their can trace their lineage back to the slave days. Perhaps, however, harm should not be presumed at all. Instead, maybe those applying for reparations should be able to show some special harm resulting from the legacy of slavery. These are just a couple of issues. I point them out here to show how much there is to consider in such a folly, to expose how very little of this has been thought out to this point. Essentially, we are currently at the "Yo, I is gonna Git PAYD!!!" level.
(4) Blacks have ALREADY RECEIVED REPARATIONS. Blacks get so many preferences, set-asides, and carve-outs mandated by the federal government, along with cash entitlement benefits and subsides, one can reasonably conclude that they have already been compensated. Moreover, we did not ship them out of America after we freed them from slavery. We let them stay here in our country where they are free to engage in all of the opportunities (plus some due to their skin color) for advancement and prosperity as anyone else. If we had know what was to come then even Lincoln would have probably put all the slaves on a boat and set them free to return to Africa. But to be fair, who could have predicted what a colossal clusterfuck race relations would become. They have legal equality PLUS all other atonements offered by rich white guilt. And I don't even blame blacks for asking for as much as they can get because it is the white leftists who have been telling them for decades now how whitey has fucked them. Of course, the white leftists were not trying to help them. They were trying to keep them down and in a permanent victim class in order to perpetuate Democrat power. Essentially, the Democrats have re-enslaved American blacks.
So blacks have already been compensated. They get tons of handouts and preferences. They get to live in a country in which they afforded more freedom and liberty, and economic opportunity, that any other country of earth in the history of humankind. If Lincoln had deported them back in the day, sending them back to Africa, most of them and their descendants would not have survived, being felled by famine, disease, political strife, and eaten by various dangerous animals. Frankly, Lincoln letting them stay here pretty much makes us even, in my opinion. In fact, if allowing them to stay makes us even, we have actually OVERPAID blacks on account of slavery. Maybe they OWE US! Maybe they can make their debt to America good by stopping all the divisive tribalism and assimilate as a United States Citizen; not an "African-American", or some other fiction, but as individuals who first identify as American instead as of black. The opportunity is here, right now. But they will not take it. Why not? It is because the leftists want to perpetuate and exploit blacks' contrived status as victims. To do so furthers the ultimate goal of creating civil strife in America that they hope leads to a Marxist revolution.
Most black Americans today are tools of the neo-Marxists. Well, I got news for black folks. Your privileges in America are based upon your identities as individuals (with God given rights), not your membership in groups. Once that changes, and our constitutional republic is replaced by some Marxist government, you will devolve into a dehumanized commodity based upon your group. In others words, it is time for you to move on from your purported "ancestral trauma" and take responsibility for your lives exclusive of all the grifters and Marxists out there who have commoditized you based upon your skin color.
The Dead End of Reparations
I don't know about you, but I am about ready to take the ruling-class enthusiasm forwww.americanthinker.com
So you find it "apparent", that 250 years of slavery, followed by 100 years of Jim Crow laws were "having their feelings hurt."For having their feelings hurt, apparently.
Meaning bitches get stitches.Meaning?
I've posted it numerous times.yeah, post that link,
You did not read the op, did you? Instead, you just gave a knee-jerk reaction to the headline.
Blame your ancestral generations. You are at least six generations removed from the effects of slavery since the 1964 Civil Rights Act. You have had benefits based on your skin color that no other race has had. It is time to stop blaming injustices from before you were born for your plight and put the blame where it belongs currently--On your forebears and YOURSELF. Many people in this country, myself included, had NO generational wealth passed on and succeeded because of perseverance and tenacity. You should try it, the resultant pride in self accomplishment is terrific.None of those items can be translated into generational wealth.
LOL!! So what? You aren't that old are you?So you find it "apparent", that 250 years of slavery, followed by 100 years of Jim Crow laws were "having their feelings hurt."
Do I have that right? If not please correct me.
Sure. Because God forbid an employer gets to hire an employee who’s actually qualified for the job. “Sorry. Even though you’re vastly more qualified, we have to hire this black applicant with no experience just.....well just because of skin color.” Getting an education and working your way up too much to ask?Slavery lead to Jim Crow. The legacy of Jim Crow is still very much with us , most notably in policing and the courts.
That said “reparations” is a poor solution.
Affirmative action is a far better one
But the racists fight that as well
Sorry, missy, the world doesn't owe you a thing. The word that comes readily to mind is PARASITE.I wonder why certain folks never quote this line from MLK? They always quote the line "judge us by the content of our character and not the color of our skin"? They don't like to talk about the money they owe us.
OR, since these parasites are so well educated, the government should give each of them $0.01. That's right ONE TRILLION US DOLLARS.LOL!! So what? You aren't that old are you?
You were born an equal to every American weren't you?
Look at Baltimore, no public school kids can do math.
They should sue their parents for not helping them with their math homework, huh?
Or, maybe sue them for having low IQs?
Feelings Are facts in lib landFor having their feelings hurt, apparently.
parasitic infection due to lack of reflection.Sorry, missy, the world doesn't owe you a thing. The word that comes readily to mind is PARASITE.
Hey, I'm part Irish.or the irish.
It’s your claim, I don’t have any obligation to prove you right!I've posted it numerous times.
I'm not doing your work for you.
Stop paying for illegitimate children in all ways. Equality will follow after some pain.Slavery lead to Jim Crow. The legacy of Jim Crow is still very much with us , most notably in policing and the courts.
That said “reparations” is a poor solution.
Affirmative action is a far better one
But the racists fight that as well
Who gives a shit? All of that is over now. The lingering effects accrue to the benefit of blacks.So you find it "apparent", that 250 years of slavery, followed by 100 years of Jim Crow laws were "having their feelings hurt."
Do I have that right? If not please correct me.
