It's not fair that Black Americans are trying receive Slavery reparations??? What do u Think?

Question

If they receive "Slavery reparations", then we should have reparations for the American Indians, The Mexicans/ Spanish, and the people WHO came in the MAYFLOWER.
One small thing that we have missed in WORLD History is that SLAVERY was very popular in the 1400's etc..It was used by the ROMANS, EUROPEAN's, SPANIARDS and AFRICANS......

some one ask where did this subject came from , let me say "THE NEWS"

Answer 1

Who said I was

Answer 2

First, there is not a single former slave alive today. If there were they would certainly be due just compensation for their labor, but the ancestors of atrocities do not deserve compensation in any way. As a precedent for this point of view, from the last century, let us look at how the compensation of slave labor during the holocaust of World War II has been handled. The thousands of people that survived that inequity are being compensated by both the government of Germany and by the companies that gained from their forced labor, and rightfully so. But their children have no inherited right to collect for the uncompensated labor of their parents. Certainly the grandchildren and great grandchildren of American slaves never experienced the appalling life of slavery, and therefore, like the children of Jews and others enslaved in Germany 50 years ago, they have no claim for themselves.

Secondly, blacks do not have a monopoly on living in poverty in this country. According to the latest census data approximately 30 percent of blacks and whites live in poverty. Hispanics unfortunately have an even higher percentage living below the poverty line. All this current day poverty can not be attributed to a disgusting institution that was ended 150 years ago. It can however be attributed to present day governmental policy. There should be a monumental effort made by the government, at all levels, to get all Americans out of poverty, but a policy centered on only one race is just as wrong as slavery was.

Thirdly, slavery could not have existed without the complicity of black Africans who supplied most of the unfortunate humans that were sold into this dreadful condition. It was not just whites that kept this retched institution going for over 200 years. In addition, there were over 200,000 white Americans that paid the ultimate retribution during the Civil War, when they gave their lives to end slavery. The reparation debt owed to slaves was paid a long time ago when the North won the Civil War and freed them.

Answer 3

No amount can pay for over two hundred years of slavery and more slavery in the mind.. I agree with reparations for all who need it. But nothing can be given to the so called "Indian" They even stole their name and origins. You can start a thesis on this point and still not answer the question. Their can be no repayment for slavery. But you have to start somewhere. Their is a point to say however. When slavery was over for the Europeans they were not still persecuted and discriminated as a whole like the other cultures....And that is a fact. If you don't believe me research it for yourself. You might be surprised what you find. The "Indian" culture and the African culture was raped of its identity. you can see that by the many different pigmentations etc..And most of them are lost because they argue what culture they are. Many have no clue what they are. So their argument is null unless the individual knows what exactly is on his/ her tree. Well thats enought.Like I said you can write a thesis on this..And I have written a few in my time.

Answer 4

I think it would be totally fair for Blacks to receive reparations for slavery. First, each individual will prove that he/she is a descendant of a slave. Then the government has to prove that some white guy is the descendant of a slave holder. Then after the slaveholder's descendant has money taken from him and given to a proven slave's descendant, the slave's descendant will have that money taken away from him and given to a person who is a descendant of a slain soldier from the north that fought for the union.

See it's really pretty simple.

Actually, since there is no more slavery in the United States, I think folks should just work hard, get a good job and not have to rely on the government giving them stuff.

Answer 5

Any black American can ask for reparations because this is a FREE country. However, I don't believe that each black-skinned American should be awarded any reparation. It'd be impossible to prove each claimant's lineage back to slaves. I'm quite sure that if records existed at all, they're mostly gone by now.
Japanese Americans, most of them 3rd and 4th generation Americans at time of internment, can certainly prove that they were at the camps. They can prove that their homes, farms, fisheries, businesses and land were taken from them. They kept their deeds and records. They committed no crimes and their homeland was U.S.A., NOT Japan. Only the Quakers stood up for them.
If you want to talk about servitude and slavery, then you must include the Chinese Americans as well. The most dangerous aspects of leveling or "drilling" a hole through mountains (by nitric acid) for our transcontinental railroads were done by the Chinese. The cane fields of Hawaii were cleared and planted and cultivated by the Chinese. At day's end, they didn't even know if they were sweating blood (from being cut by bark and leaves). And then, the U.S. Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. We are the only racial group that have been targeted this way. We would NEVER ask for reparations. Like all immigrants to the Americas, we suffered, presevered, assimilated and succeeded very well.
And the American Indians got mostly CRAPPY land where you can't even grow crops. They were robbed of their land, their history, their heritage, their spirit and their health. They live in sheetrock/sheet metal trailers. They get subsidies for spam, cheap carbohydrates, processed cheese, etc. As a racial group, they have the highest diabetes rate, high blood pressure, alcoholism and sucide rates. YEAH, we freakin' owe them ALOT.
By the way, slavery (labor, sexual, child, etc) have existed from the beginning of time. And it certainly exists in various form everywhere in this world today. As war always will. It's a pathetic aspect of humanity!

Answer 6

It's been a long, long time since anyone was forced into involuntary servitude by large numbers of wealthy landowners and condoned en masse. Some of the slaves were given land by their formers "Masters". Some made their way into the world and got jobs, bought land, etc. Some didn't make it. Some stayed on out of loyalty to serve and were either paid or given places to live. Some were treated badly and not released. It's all part of the dark history of a time that supported such behavior. There is no equitable way to provide "reparations" in amounts that will alter the lives of the millions of verifiable descendents of the people brought to this country and/or the people born in this country to slave families. If Congress and the American people strongly feel the descendents of slaves should be compensated, put the money where it will do the most good. We already have a ***** College Fund, why not fund it to provide educations ... surely we can all agree that getting an education is the pathway out of generations of poverty and/or not having the skills to compete in a modern world. Make joining the Military more lucrative with that money and actively recruit in minority neighborhoods. Of course, then our country will be accused of being racist and sacrificing the minorities to wars.

Take a look at the immigrants to this country that came here on purpose seeking a better life over the last 300 years. One does not need to be a citizen to figure out how to start up a business. There are agencies that will help women and minorities to start their own business and make money. Money and training is already available for that.

Just handing $$ to one group as "reparations" for something that occurred almost 300 years ago is like rolling down the window of a speeding car in a neighborhood of homlesss people and tossing out dollar bills hoping someone will get them and their hunger or poverty will be forever cured.

This country is experiencing demands from lots of groups to provide money, opportunity, education, "reparations" etc. Just where will this money come from? I fear it will come from my pocket and from the sweat off my back.

The reparations distributed to the Japanese families interred during WWII was a totally different dark chapter in our history. One that took things, property, homes, possessions, jobs, etc. away from productive people that were already contributing to this country and making their own way. It was done out of hysteria and a small-thinking mob mentality. That should not be used as a comparison.

I say get over it. Make your own way. Get a job. Take a look at the other "minorities" in this country that work hard, open businesses, get educations, earn their own money and get on with their lives.

I'll earn my own money, and everybody else should do the same. If someone truly needs help, there are lots of ways to get help from the government today. I say: "A hand UP, NOT a hand OUT!"

Answer 7

Yes well put where does it end? Reparations for all who were slighted. Reparations for all.
As a white person I have no guilt over slavery. All of the people who had slaves in the US are long dead. Most white americans came to the country after the turn of the century. Many whites fought for the north, which lead to the freeing of the slaves, are they guilty too.
I am not responsible for the sins of my father or grandfather, so I am certainly not responsible for things that happened in Amerca before my ancestors ever got here.

Answer 8

The problem with paying reparations to African-Americans is the recipients never were slaves.

Instead, it would make much more sense to build a Museum of Slavery in Washington, DC. This would fulfill a useful role for Americans so that they would learn about the evil of the institution of slavery, and the scars it caused in American society.

One has to ask to that if there is a Holocaust Museum to remind Americans of the evil of Hitler's concentration camps and the Final Solution for European Jews in Washington, DC, why can't the US have a museum dedicted to reminding Americans about the institution of slavery?

Answer 9

it is complete 100% BULL! How dare anyone try to gain compensation for what happened over 2 centurys ago! And you are absaloutly right there is no culture on earth that wasnt enslaved at some time in history! And NO other race speaks about it anymore. I am Peruvian, our people were slaved, raped and slaughtered by the Spanish, and today there are NO bad feelings between Spain and Peru at all, why the hell should there be? I mean what next compensation from Africa it's self because their own people sold their neighbours to the Europeans? or did they conveniently forget that? All I can say is Thank God few American Blacks are this stupid or pettie, and it is only a few desperados letting down the name.

Answer 10

Reparations, for African/American. I can understand why if I was a direct descendant, with proof. Meaning directly effected by apartheid, or slavery abuse within a time frame of a few years. Past generations were effected, way past generations. It would be rash, for NOW generations to apply for a hand-out. While Jewish people were compensated, because it was acceptable for them, because of the time frame, and it happened to be debatable for them also.
I personally did not contribute to slavery, genocide, in my generation. If any one in the US demographics & qualifications I would have to give the Native Americans a share. The reason I would choose them is simple. Geopraphical. Otherwise I will get a T-SHIRT made, "Don't ask me for jack s---" made. My taxes have funded many other cause(s).

Answer 11

No amount of money can make up for what one group of people did to another in the past. There have always been groups who've been discriminated against by others, mistreated, misused, abused, etc. I don't know that slavery alone is the issue. It's the abuses one group perpetrates against another. Just looking at American history, each wave of immigrants was treated disgracefully by the ones who came before. It's still happening today. What would be better (fairer) is if we would all learn from past mistakes and treat all peoples fairly and equitably, with dignity and respect, the way God intended.