Just in case you just got to the planet, the United States experienced what we like to call slavery from the 1560s until the 1860s. Primary focus was on the enslaving of black people to engage in the hardships of agriculture without pay. Well we have since, cleared that nonsense up and even managed to treat all men equal (supposedly).
But now that America has seen the error of its ways, should reparations be paid to the ancestors of the slaves. Reparations are normally paid in monetary payments or compensation in land. After the civil war, 40,000 slaves were freed and allowed to settle on 400,000 acres of of land in GA and SC. Unfortunately, President Andrew Johnson reversed the order after the death of good ole Abe Lincoln.
Reparations paid by the U.S. isn’t a new concept. Japanese Americans were paid reparations after World War II. Native Americans were paid reparations, mostly in land and are allowed to do almost whatever they wish on their land (Ever wonder how that Casino got there).
So let your voice be heard. Do Black people need their money and land?
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My family lineage was still in Europe. Why should ANY of my tax money go to pay for what some other person’s ancestors did.
The Japanese were interned for 2 years and they were paid for their hardship. The Indians had their land taken and within a relatively short amount of time they were given a good portion of it back to do as they please.
Slavery (in some form or another) of black people lasted for about 350 years. The damage done by these years can likely never be fully measured, but despite the fact the reparation act for blacks was reversed.
Things that make you go hmmm….
My family lineage was thrown in a shack, whipped, raped, sold on a stage like wild stock, and humiliated at every turn.
Why should I pay taxes period?
To answer your original question…because its the right thing to do.
I’m sorry but the majority of those slaves were legitimate purchases. As much as I hate to say it, considering my ancestors’ relatives decided to sell them for a few pounds of sugar, boomsticks (guns) or what have you, thats legitimate trade. Its not like the US government actually bought EVERY slave that came to the US, just some of them.
All other cases of reparations being paid by the US government were due to legitimate actions by the US government, not its citizens.
Trying to trace who owes who what is going to be insane if we’re going to argue on the topic of fairness. Get it from your ancestors’ owners, not the government.
I can already picture it… hand out reparations money and the roads will be covered with Donks and Bubbles.
And when the fuck did we get smiley faces? Bitches love smileys faces and I love me some smiley faces too!
It does seem like the right thing to do but honestly, not only would only the low lifes show up with their hand out, how would you prove that all these dark skinned warriors are descendants of slaves? Partner with Ancestory.com?
If the government decided to pay such reparations, we could kiss the national budget goodbye and file for bankruptcy.
You don’t control what your taxes pay for now….
And a lot of us would just be paying ourselves anyway.
I agree.
Why not just give black people who perform the research to prove their ancestry one year of taxes back. That works for me.
Cuz you don’t deserve it. One of your relatives already got paid for the hard work your ancestors did over the centuries.
Just because the later incarnations of something your ancestors bought all of a sudden got brains and became human/sentient doesn’t mean you give that later incarnation money because of all of the hard work its ancestor’s did long ago that your ancestors already paid for.
Because when evolution kicks in for horses and they become able to communicate with humans, we’re ALL going to have hell to pay.
My ancestors on my father’s side of my family fought against their enslavement under the ancestors of my mother’s side of the family for ~1000 years.
I should pay reparations to myself and everyone else should give me monies.
You pay taxes because you have directly benefited from the proceeds there of.
You were personally never enslaved.
What were they paid?
African slaves were sold to white slave traders by African slave traders for sugar, guns, salt, and other miscellaneous items.
Sorry, they weren’t all kidnapped from their homeland as movies like to portray. Most were legitimate exchanges.
Would you trade your mom, dad, sister, or brother for a #3 at Burger King?
How long has it been since I have eaten?
Not a fresh one either. One that has been sitting under that light for a few hours.
Right now you have to type them in
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Is Lucretia Mott in your bloodline? She’s my favorite.
I wouldn’t but I’m not a savage either. African slave traders on the other hand …
Is that the Angry Whooper?
If so, you may have a deal.
I have always been against the suffrage of women…
(you are a mon-stah) Just for kicks, let’s say 2 weeks. Hunger has converted to famine.
Mon-stah #2
Is there ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise or any combination of the three on the burger?
Lettuce, Tomato, Ketchup, Mayo, Pickle, Onion, and A1 steak sauce. And the liquid cheese (Cheddar).
Fuck that weird nasty shit, I’ll starve.
Good. Your family will be proud.
Nah, not a mon-stah at all. Just not taking an unfounded false dichotomy seriously.
Now that we are on that subject. Would you sleep with your own grandmother to keep your family from being sold into slavery?
No, I would not. Seeing as it is 2010, I could not imagine something so aberrant. Are you implying that had the Africans slept with their family members, American Slavery would not have taken place?
So, your lack of willingness to sleep with ones own grandmother to save the rest of your family is directly due to the date on the calender?
I was not referring to Africans since they have not been, as far a percentages of population over the millennium, the most enslaved people in human history. But now that the subject has been broached, how many do you think would have made that choice?
First part of my response was no – I would not.
AS far as others, I do not know what choices they would choose. What about you?
Is no one gonna laugh at this? Great line!
Yeah it’s too late for reparations, plus BigAl already cut me a check