BET founder Robert Johnson calls for $14 trillion of reparations for slavery

That's because you don't understand or you're trying to gaslight.

A 20 year old in Germany can't pay reparations for the Holocaust he wasn't alive his grandparents were probably children at the time. Demand generational funding is not reparation. That is paying tribute.

Guilt is not generational.

 

We can't pay reparations for slavery. The people we would pay it to are dead the people responsible for it are dead. It would just be a tribute. Or a guilt tax. Besides the reparations have already been made. First the slaves were freed. Second they were given 40 acres and a mule.

People want to live 200 years in the past they can if they wish I don't think we should fund it.

 

The Republican Party gave blacks the right to vote. Not one Democrat voted for that law.

Freedom ain't free. Sometimes it's shamefully overdue, but it cost the first Republican president his life. It wasn't free in Selma and it wasn't free on that bus because somebody's feet hurt and a white cracker following stupid orders made it into a righteous redressing of civil rights.

Please consider that so many black voter efforts fail whereas so many DEMOCRAT voter efforts succeed. If too many blacks vote Dems out, then what? Better to play them off against say Mexicans or Chinese. Maybe a stray crazy Lithuanian. And black issues aren't met because voters failed to show...unless it was something the unions or the Democrats wanted. How much of that is avoidable? Is it racist to suggest that change starts by getting off the couch---but not to burn down what isn't yours.

 

There’s a much cheaper solution. Every black leader should tell their flocks to keep it in their pants, stop making babies they don’t want, and keep their legs closed unless they’re married...and they might be able to clean up their culture in a generation or 2.

But for now, no amount of money will fix a 70% single parent home. That’s a lose/lose. No fathers means mostly disrespectful kids with no father figures which means gangs, low expectations when it comes to education and a vicious cycle of welfare and poverty as each generation repeats what the last did.

 

We have the imagination. The left uses it for fiction. Their talent is laughable.

Your vision exceeds my grasp. Fourteen balls of lint and a fast bright smile and handshake. That's it. Tops.

The "ain't gonna happen"...? Right on --- just like Don Cornelius used to say on Soul Train.

 

I asked the question because I do not recall tribute being used the way you used it. I heard of tribute being used as in the age of monarchs as in people or countries paying tribute to a king or the Russians paying tribute to Ghengis Khan so he allowed them to live. Or people of the. Alkans paying tribute to the Muslim Turk invaders so that he Muslims would not all of them only some of them.

 

They call this white supremacy. And that's two indicate that this isn't the solution to the problem the solution to the problem is money. Give us money it is a quest for more money nothing else.

 

you didn't ask a question you made a statement you thought that using the term as it is defined is odd.

Look it up.

 

I am not for paying reparation for slavery but freeing the slaves is not a reparation in my book. There is historical evidence that the 40 acres and a mule was never carried out. Are you aware of historical facts that show it was and for how long was it done ? Interesting question that needs exploration !

Edit I just found it. Andrew Johnson annulled and reversed that order of 40 and a miles which was made by General Sherman. Some former slaves did temporarily get 40 and were lent a mile but during Reconstruction that land was taken away from the freed Black slaves. Look through WIKI

 

we can't it is impossible to send the money back in time. that's a dark part of our past we just have to learn to live with it the people who could apologize for it I have long died.

It doesn't matter the people who would have been repaired are dead. The opportunity to do this disappeared with that generation.

 

No, I got it but I do not agree that Holocaust reparations are a tribute.

 

I said a few times that I do not believe in reparations for slavery at this point in time. You do agree now that the 40 acres and a mules was never implement or was reversed right?

 

They call what white supremacy? People having babies they can’t afford and not creating families around the children? Not caring? That’s called irresponsibility. Getting your life in order, then getting married, then having children is called community, the family unit, the heart of a stable civilization! Stable cultures do this.

 

That's fine. you don't have to agree I don't agree that 20 year old person living in Germany has the ability to pay reparations.

 

I have no idea, I don't see the relevance.

 

no they call the fact that you're pointing out family values is a deep underlying issue for some of that societal ills we have today white supremacy I don't think it's white supremacy I think it's a serious problem. The foundations of society are built it in the family

I agree. I think there's a component of self-centeredness involved as well. but those two things sort of go hand-in-hand.

Absolutely agree societies are built on families. If the family is broken the society will be.

This reality is what they call white supremacy. They say it's eurocentric. Which is odd to me because family units exist outside of Europe.

 

The question is -- who qualifies? See link below and comment about "invisible blackness."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule

 

Real talk real quick, most of my ancestors came here after the Civil War including a few from Ireland escaping English repression and a Jew from Bavaria escaping repression there. The side of my family that was here during the war lived in the north and fought for the union, at least one of whom was wounded. I owe nothing, many people in this country owe nothing. We will not pay and we will not be persuaded to do so. Blacks in this country are not the only people in the world to experience hardship and get nothing in return.

 

There's a much cheaper solution.
1) Leave the Africans in Africa instead of enslaving them and bringing them to America.
2) Require the European colonists to live by the sweat of their own brow. If you can only work a few acres of land, that is all you should own. Then you wouldn't need slaves.

There. I just solved the entire problem.
You're welcome. Oh, but since that Wasn't done, reparations may be in order.

 

Well we know that isn't true, no Southern Democrats voted for it and no Southern Republicans voted for it either. You might need to go back and take another look at that. Instead of posting incorrect information. Wasn't it a Democratic president that signed it into law.

Yep he was murdered by a white man.

Yep.

You love to criticize black folks for voting Democrat, but please tell us why black folks should start voting Republican.

 

Blacks have been voting democrat for years and they aren't much better off for it. Do blacks enjoy being lied to?

 

Why do you think black folks don't vote Republican.

 

But but but... Trump has been so good for the black people..

If Trump ever tweets that one again, it could safely be fact check linked

Even "his African American" left him last year....

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/12/politics/trump-my-african-american-leaving-gop/index.html

 

Because democrats have them fooled. The myth of racism is democrat propaganda. Why do you think it only comes up in election years?

 

Guess you’ll have to talk to the black slave owners who sold the black slaves to the white men in ships. There are still blacks in Africa and how are things over there?

And I just bet you missed my entire post and only saw,Don't have babies” as wishing to wipe out their race, because your reading comprehension is grade school level. It was about responsibly having children, getting married and creating families, like that’s a terrible thing? Instead you lash out, very similar to rioters and looters. YOU are the problem.