It said in the news that slave reparations are gaining ground. My family didn't even come here from Europe until the 1900's. Why should we have to pay? If they do pay will they pay for the Irish slaves brought to America even before the black slaves?
2006-07-09 16:36:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I want reparations for being a slave to the IRS. At least I am the wronged party and not muliple generations removed from the individual who suffered injustice. Let's get real.
2006-07-09 16:42:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
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.
2006-07-11 16:41:52 · answer #2 · answered by Carl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry about it or give it a second thought. It will never happen. In order for the Japanese internees to receive benefits - they had to be personally interned, and alive at the time of the reparations.
There is currently no one left that has suffered from slavery. There are those of us who want a continual handout from the government. I will vote against any politician who support reparations for slavery.
2006-07-09 16:41:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My grandmother was born in Budapest, Hungary. My grandfather in New Jersey, but his ancestors were also from Hungary. No one in my family had anything to do with slavery. My tax dollars should not go to pay for something that happened so long ago. I agree that slavery was a horrible black eye for the U.S. But it was abolished when Abe Lincoln was President. Let it go. And don't give me the argument that blacks are feeling the effects to this day. In reality, most people don't give a crap whether you are black, white, green, blue or pink with polka dots. Blacks actually have many advantages. It is easier for minorities in this country to get a job than whites. I myself was passed over for a job due to some quota. Where does it end?
2006-07-10 14:47:04 · answer #4 · answered by Natterjack9 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
slave reparations would make you moving to canada but not...
having your phone wiretapped, emails marked, police being able to enter your home without a warrent, paying for an unnecessary war, slow response by the federal government for natural disasters, universal health care?
Interesting.
2006-07-09 16:45:49 · answer #5 · answered by whatwouldyodado2006 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm all for it. . .
If there are any slaves alive that were brought over here from Africa for the purpose of slavery, we should pay them. Otherwise, no one collects one red cent!
Why should we pay relatives?? That is ridiculous.
2006-07-09 16:46:54 · answer #6 · answered by volleyballchick (cowards block) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's all a big shell game. eventually we will all be dead so none of this will really matter.
2006-07-10 13:19:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-09 18:55:13 · answer #8 · answered by gunsandammoatwork 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋