for almost 35 years he couldn't vote, he could'nt go into any store he wanted. and his life was threatened daily just because he was black. he is still living, so since he was a sharecropper and only received 2 cents on the dollar for his work. do you think the banks that financed the white owner owes him?
2006-07-09 14:14:57 · 12 answers · asked by jimmy 1 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
want want want that's all i heard get real
2006-07-09 14:18:47 · answer #1 · answered by bobby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, while the laws were not fair and just, the bank did not do anything wrong. Next he did not have to be a share cropper,
They would recieve a part of the crops that were done in return for a place to live, use of the land for a garden and some perosnal livestock.
Next many many whites were also sharecroppers, it was not a black only issue, It was merely they way life was.
No more than the banks that support walmart owe its workers money since they are only getting paid todays min wage, ( which is not enough to live on and not any medical care)
2006-07-09 21:47:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummm...I do believe that black men got the right to vote before women of any color. I didn't look this up so I may be wrong but it seems like I remember once being suprised that black ppl got the vote before women (no prejudice intended). I also didn't realize that women didn't get the right to vote until the 20th century.
I think those were the wages back then and/or if he agreed to them i'm not sure what you can do. My mom started work at Motorola about 30 yrs ago and made $3.35 an hour, and that was above minimum wage and considered good money. Now if your dad could get the white sharecropper to pay him that might work but the bank..no.
2006-07-09 21:24:42 · answer #3 · answered by beth l 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not one cent. What is it that makes anyone think that just because a person lived during a time when discrimination was the law , that the bank, which had no real choice but to work with the land owner, owes the people who worked for the land owner? I just don't get it. There are a lot of unscrupulous black lawyers out there playing on the emotions of innocent black people in the hopes that they, the lawyers, can get their hands on money for little or no work. WATCH OUT!!! There has been no money set aside by the government to pay reparations for slavery either!!
2006-07-09 21:24:42 · answer #4 · answered by thebushman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard to say. I'd like to think most people in society have learned from past mistakes. Do the banks owe him? I'd say no- it is just putting the money burden on people that werent involved. As long as we can understand what happened over 40 years ago was wrong and not to let it happen again to any culture living in this country. Ideally the money should have been dealt with a long time ago between him and the white owner (I know back then it would not have happened)
2006-07-09 21:25:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, sure . . . but let's go back just a bit further. Since your dad (and the farm owners and the banks) condoned the genocide of the Native Americans by working stolen land to begin with, I believe all that money "owed" to whoever thinks they deserve it should first be forked over to the Indians. I'm sure the First Nations will be pleased that you've raised this point for them.
2006-07-09 22:11:11 · answer #6 · answered by Tammy B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Banks? Or the stores that wouldn't accomodate him, the politicians he couldn't vote for, the education he couldn't receive. Etc, etc, etc. Seriously, the banks had little to do with it, every white person who thought this behavior was "normal" was to blame. Women were treated the same way. Do you think women are owed a thing or two for the same time in history?
2006-07-09 21:22:31 · answer #7 · answered by banker lady 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So...what about us women? And Native Americans? And the Chinese in California? And the Mexicans who lost Texas? And the Vietnamese in the 60s? And the Iraqis now?
We can go at this all year.
2006-07-09 23:03:33 · answer #8 · answered by Magdalene 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes now go to court and have your dad own that bank and town.
If my bank accidently loses my paycheck they give me the same amount plus extras. Why not your dad or any dad of any color who gets screwed by unfair laws like that or eminent domain.
Fight the power.
2006-07-12 04:14:21 · answer #9 · answered by Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You do not stand a chance in life if you keep harking back to the past. You are not alone in thinking you could get money for nothing but it is totally unrealistic.
2006-07-09 21:24:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you serious ? why would the Banks be liable for this, I would think like most others most likly do. that the owners are solely liable for their actions
2006-07-09 22:03:10 · answer #11 · answered by skreeterca 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋