slavery reparations are wrong and racist.?

Question

not ALL blacks were slaves, or even have distant slave ancestors, so giving blacks money based on what happened to a similarly colored person a couple hundred years ago is very racist in my view. should we send some money to africa because they're black?? ....even the bishops had slaves, should the church pay reparations? many presidents owned slaves, should the govt. pay? in some instances, blacks owned slaves, sometimes many many slaves, should they pay tthemselves? i can understand paying money if i actively participated in the slavery, but i wouldn't touch it with a 50 foot pole, so why must i be punished or related to horrible slave owners? it's like sueing mcdonalds for making you fat, it's an absolutely outrageous idea.

why would you get paid if you weren't a direct descendant of a slave, because of the color of your skin?....that's very poor thinking. it seems like a bunch of black folks trying to make a quick buck to me. nobody is denying the terrible things that happened, BUT you weren't a part of it, too bad so sad, no money.

Answer 1

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 2

I don't believe reparations serve any purpose now. If the blacks want to be repaid for being enslaved, then the Native Americans would have to be first in line before them. Don't you think? Reparations as just a way to keep the hatred burning. If we are going to ever have truly "equal" cultures in America, the reparation discussions need to end.

Answer 3

So if reperations occured, I wouldn't get payed b/c I'm not a descendant of slaves?

Are you saying I get nothing cuz my ancestors weren't American slaves? That's not for every black person though.

Answer 4

Slaves were deprived of countless things that we are still seeing effects from today.

Answer 5

Just another scheme by n***ers to get something for nothing.