Should Blacks be paid "reparations" today because of slavery in the United States?

It is a question reparations advocates never seem to have an answer for or at least a practical and rational answer.

 

It's incredible to think there are grown adults running around coming up with these Kramer-esque hair-brained schemes without having given it even a nano-second's consideration.

It's all just vomited feels. Vomit and run, vomit and run, vomit and run. The don't give a damn about the impact those piles of vomitous have on those who come after them - it's all about the sweet relief of announcing their Super Compassion.

 

You say "EUGENICS", and I say "GENETICS".

"You say po-tah-to, and I say po-tay-to...."

There ARE differences between the races, crank -- human history going back to the beginning, anthropology, archeology, physiology, and GENETICS (among others) clearly reveal them. But, the vitally important thing that a society like ours in the United States must (MUST) provide is EQUALITY OF ALL CITIZENS BEFORE THE LAW!

We did that conclusively in the United States with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights of 1965. Neither of those very important, vital additions should be considered as some kind of 'groundwork' for something as bizarrely unfair as "reparations"....

 

OMG .. are you actually claiming that Americans are not all equal before the law? Like it's 1932 or something? LOLs, bless!

And I'm sorry, but if you start measuring drops of blood you are engaging in eugenics. You (general you) aren't just keeping racism alive, you're ramming it home like Hitler.

 

1) All people whose Freedom was unjustly taken deserve Compensation.

2) Compensation was suppose to be paid to African Americans enslaved. But now it can be paid to their descendants. This is inheritance.

3) I am proud of my great-grandparents who were part of Revolution that gave Reparations to workers and peasants of Russia. Sadly, a Free Society built by Lenin and Trotsky was lost to Stalin. But even Joseph Stalin has many virtues due to his role in WWII.

 

I can never speak for African Americans.

I am very proud of my great-grandparents.

 

In principle, I agree with you (except for the part about Stalin....)

Consider: for thousands of years, Black tribes in Sub-Saharan Africa had waged wars on each other for dominance and plunder, and they took the losers into slavery. Then, a few hundred years ago, the Black tribal chiefs and other slave owners in Africa started selling their 'merchandise' to Arabs, Europeans, and North Americans... and you know the rest. Therefore, the governments of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa should pay reparations to Blacks in the United States... right?

Another example? The Roman Empire took many German ancestors (and other Northern Europeans) as slaves when Rome invaded and conquered Germania, Gaul, and Britannia. So, again following your logic, the present-day Government of Italy should pay ME and all the other descendants of those slaves reparations, too... right?

 

It is not possible to right all historic wrongs. American Slavery can not be righted, but at least some amends can be made. Only African American Community can decide what shape Reparations will take.

Only hairs of anyone can decide how to divide their inheritance.

 

What is this "inheritance" you speak of?

Did my German forebears bequeath a similar inheritance to me and many descendants of Northern Europeans of were invaded and enslaved by the Roman Empire? If so, isn't it up to the present government of Italy to start paying it...?

 

How much will asians and irish people inherit over this?

 

This is much like the Sunni and Shi’a versions of Islam fighting since 632. It’s become an industry of death. Do we want that here? That’s where we are headed. Blacks fighting guilt ridden whites for crumbs.

 

I've been thinking and thinking and thinking about this for several weeks now.......
the numbers are starting to look doable.....
IF... we can pull off something of a paradigm shift in how the world looks at economics.........

especially.... the economy of 2021 to 2921..... no kidding......!

This is going to get into some complex mathematics though......... sort of.....

My Rosh ha Shanah apology to you all




The Worgl Austria Great Depression Experiment and a real estate boom in rural America?

and.......

http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/was-moses-moshe-a-brilliant-economist.428423/
Was Moses - Moshe a brilliant economist?




"And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." (Genesis 11)


Ecclesiastes 10:19
"A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. "


Note.... these reparations to Blacks do not necessarily have to be paid by Americans.......
an outside source may perhaps become available.......?????

Do we Canadians owe America an apology for 1750 - 1783?