Can someone tell me why I should pay reparations to Black people for something not even my ancestors did?

Answer 1

I think you are wrong. I want the Catholic Church to publically apologize for the Inquisitions and pay reparations to the decendants of the people they executed. And the Romans, they tore up the old school Druids when they invaded Britain two thousand years ago. Isn't it high time that Italy paid for those reparations? And what about the Neanderthal? Didn't Cro Magnum man wipe them out? Shouldn't we pay them for this heinious act?
OK, if it's someone who is still alive, like the Korean women that Japanese soldiers forced into prostitution, then I can accept the reparations idea. Turn the tables about the older stuff, wouldn't you like to get free money for something you never had to endure?

Answer 2

1.You shouldn't but you should recognize that unless you have no ancestors (LOL) they did do it. Even those of African ancestory captured and sold other Africans into slavery. Someone somewhere on your family tree bought slaves, sold slaves or stood by and did nothing while it happened. Ideologically it happened just last year when Katrina wiped out what little the ancestors of the slaves had in NOLA and most of you watched on TV and did nothing. Several of you believed they deserved it. If this is you don't worry, nobody is going to take your money- you live in a hell I can't imagine and will probably be reincarnated as a black person.
2. To this day if you are black living in America no matter how much you defy the odds and become a successful, productive and respected member of society there are people that think you're just another n*gger and should still be a slave just because you are black. Oh, and they think your mama being on welfare and you getting an achedemic scholarship because of your 3.8GPA combined with affirmative action is why you are a lawyer or a doctor or a secratary of state and they live in a trailer in tornado alley.
3. Reparations are not simply monetary, it involves changing history. End the cycle of bigotry in your own family.
4.The blatant economic inequalities in this country will never end as long as poor people blame other poor people based on race. The families of the those whose ancestors are most fiscally responsible aren't even at the table for this discussion- they are, as always, prodding you fight about it while they watch and get richer. Just like imigration, gay marriage, social security...

Answer 3

Because Jesse Jackson said so. Don't you know that all you have to do to get free money out of the government is jump up and down and yell and scream about racism and slavery and how you marched with MLK?

As an aside...Martin Luther King, Jr would be ashamed of all this. This man stood for hard work. Not just jumping up and down and demanding respect, he believed and preached that blacks had to earn it, even if it wasn't fair, even if it wasn't right. He would be ashamed. Luckily, most blacks do believe they must work hard and earn their keep. The ones who don't are a very noisy and obnoxious minority. Don't allow all this reparations BS turn you into a racist.

Answer 4

I think people should let the past stay in the past and concentrate on making a better future and learning from our previous mistakes. You can't change the past, only improve the future. If you were to look back through time marking out the injustices done to one group or another over the years everyone would spend all day apologizing for the wrongs of their ancestors. We should not hold grudges for past wrongs that are not the fault of those now living, and we should not be made to feel guilty for something our ancestors did. We should all concentrate on just getting along and treating one another as we would like to be treated ourselves.

Answer 5

The belief is that you ancestor benefitted from black slavery or laws that prevent blacks from doing something they could.
Like when the Gold Rush happened blacks couldn't pan for gold unless they were slaves for a white person. So we got nothing.
When this country was being built we were offered free land to live on and eventually sell 2 years later.
Lets say your ancestors got free land and built a huge house that is still in your family today. My ancestors never got chance. All we had was music and art.

Answer 6

Look you are giving yourself too much credit...for number one, nobody asked you for anything...number two, if you heard that someone decided to take funds away from the Holocaust victims, you all would be breaking your necks trying to figure out a way to petition to get funds coming back!!!! But no soon talks of giving a little something to African Americans not "Blacks", you all act like somebody robbed your momma's or something! You all are sad.

Clearly, Yahoo has a lot of racists!! Open racists...

Answer 7

Nobody knows the troubles I'm in
nobody cares but me...

Because you are a citizen of the country. We, the minority people also have to pay for upkeeps of the ruling majority no matter how corrupt, how lazy they may be. We have been doing this for years and continue to do so without bitching about it. Because we the minority are so-called citizens of the country.

Answer 8

What are you complaining about? Since when did paying reparations become law? I'm black and I don't need sh!t from you!!!!

Answer 9

If black people get reparations, the chinese and Irish should get them as well.

Answer 10

Why even ask that question? That's almost as stupid as asking for reparations in the first place. DEAD SUBJECT!