Should restitution be paid to African Americans...?

Question

whose lives were effected by the Jim Crow Laws in the South?

Before the civil rights movement, the "separate but equal" farce provided inferior schooling and housing. Not to mention separate water fountains, restrooms, and being forced to the back of the bus.

The KKK was allowed to run rampant, burning churches and lynching people with little to no fear of prosecution.

Should the people who were treated this way be compensated? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Tough question.

Many native Americans receive financial compensation, yet many are poor, uneducated drunks, and many get pregnant at a very young age. Entering some reservations is like entering a third-world country.

Restitution becomes a "handout" to those who don't know what to do with it. People in those communities who do know, soon swindle those who don't out of their share.

Almost always, the poor will stay poor simply for making bad choices.

Just like many lottery winners.

Moral of the story: Yes, compensate them, but require them to attend 4 years of finance and PASS the classes using a standardized test before they can get any funds.

Answer 2

From the way in which you requested the query, I'm assuming it is a institution challenge and this is a hypothetical, now not anything you consider is honestly going on. As to why the U.S. govt will have to pay restitution, it might be to by some means atone for beyond injustices and damaged guarantees. No subject how lengthy in the past they had been shaped, treaties are a promise from a central authority and will have to be stored. They do not simply get stale and get thrown out. But what the U.S. might pay to Native peoples might now not be restitution to make amends, it might be a debt for all of the usual assets we agreed to pay for in the ones treaties (see Thunder Sleep's reply for a record of assets).

Answer 3

I don't mean to sound racist but it is time to let this restitution business go and get on with life! The African Americans need to stop all of this slavery Bull S**T and just move on. Besides, all the Africans who were affected, have long passed away.

If you are going to pay restitution to the African Americans, why not just pay the Native Americans and the other races who were also force into slavery. Most people today think it was just the Africans who were slaves and they are wrong!

The KKK should be outlawed!

Answer 4

No. Yes, it was wrong for that activity to take place. But other groups have also been attacked and they dont get anything for it. While they were mis-treated, we have tried to improve society today, and paying off the past, we only create more doors to new issues and the flood of mis-treated minorities and radical thinking majority thinkers will never end. Also, many people who would be forced to pay took no part in slavery or anti-civil activities. Some were treated just as bad in other times, such as Irish, Mexicans, Germans, Japaninees, Eastrern Europians, Homosexuals, and at times, certain politcal parties and professions.

Yes, they were mistreated, but we can't pay off the issue, this proves that we think money can solve everything. This just isn't so.

Answer 5

Compensated by whom? I assume you mean the Federal Government - thereby all taxpayers, right? Exactly how is that fair? My ancestors did not benefit from slavery, they did not live in the racist, Democratic south, and they earned everything they got (and that wasn't much).

What about the black people who pay taxes to the government. This would also force them to pay when they might actually be decendants of people who were opressed. They succeeded, made something of themselves, and now they're going to be punished for working hard?

If not money from the government, then where? Are you suggesting that we find the decendants of anyone who was a racist and punish them for their ancestors actions? Who is going to pay for this research? Again, if it's the taxpayers, then it's completely unfair.

Reparations should never carry through the generations unless you can show something specific that happened that was ILLEGAL at the time. If your great grandfather stole a lot of money or a valuable piece of art from my great grandfather, and I can prove it, maybe your family does owe my family something - MAYBE.

However, this absolutely ridicuous idea that all white people owe all black people for the actions of some white people hundreds of years ago is laughable. And I am sick and tired of it. Minorites already get special privileges in this generation. Black kids take college space from more qualified white kids simply because they're black. So, in a few generations, can that white kids' decendants sue random black people for the oppression that they suffered?

Where does this stupidity end?

Answer 6

Are you kidding? The plight of African Americans has been in their hands for quite some time now. Although I hate to lump all people of color in this grouping, a large majority seems to think that they are owed everything: free housing, food, healthcare....just look at our welfare system and the drain it is having on our economy, not to mention the morality of America. Having babies by as many different men as possible to get a SS check is ridiculous. Suggested reading: The Bell Curve, best-selling 1994 book by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. Resistution = Welfare system. We have already been paying restitution. You just didn't know it.

Answer 7

Our penance I suspect though many claim reverse discrimination because of rights given to try and create at least a level playing field for people of color, They want to say it was someone Else's fault. It was, it was America's fault and they don't have a complaint, Blacks and many other people are still feeling discrimination. Look at what happened to their votes in Florida!

Funny, they always fail to mention if your daddy is a big Whig, or gave a lot of money to the school, or fathers went there, they are Guaranteed a seat. And they could care less about your SAT's or grades! What kind of discrimination is that which they conveniently forget about? Discrimination, because there are kids who are way brighter than some of these but they are denied entry. Good ole boy"s!

I used to think Yale was a good school until I see all the C- rift raft they graduate!

Answer 8

The restitution has been paid by the way of Affirmative Action programs. Racially biased programs that give preference of one race over another. Social programs that have supported one over the other. These programs were very much needed in the past. They should be looked upon now as an insult to minorities everywhere. So no, the government owes no restitution.

Answer 9

I think African Americans have such a strong grip on faith in God.So much happened during the civil rights movement and what they always turned to was faith.No amount of money or material can heal the pain and struggles they had to go through.Acceptance that they are Americans too and they have the same rights as any white american is a few fo the steps towards healing.

Answer 10

when the slaves were freed in this country less that a hundred and fifty years ago, they were let go with absolutely nothing, at that time blacks were about or less than 6% of the population. Like no other people in history they have survived the brutalities of slavery and for as much as they were allowed to assimilated the ways of their oppressors as time goes by and the numbers continue to grow they will eventually overcome the lack of cohesion that is a result of the lack of family bonds that they could not maintain due to slavery not long ago. As the world gets smaller due to technology and more people of color have access to the worlds information things will start to change. For example I don't know if you're old enough to know what life was like before I was able to answer your question through cyberspace nor you to ask it, but it's a way for people with noble intentions to come together and address issues and to see what we have to deal with ( Like the butt wipe who calls himself " the staple King"). But finally to answer your question restitution isn't necessary because fate and the will to survive will correct what needs to be corrected. And "Eventually someone will have to pay for all the innocent blood that's shed every day"