What do you think of reparations for Blacks?

Question

Personally i don't wanna pay taxes so it could go to them.

Answer 1

Who should pay? Our Government? Why should they (WE) pay? The tribal Chiefs in Africa are the ones that sold the undesirables to the slave traders most of which were Portuguese, Dutch, English, Spanish, French. Who then brought them here and the Caribean Islands, Panama etc,... The USA was a very minor part in the slave trade.

You are also forgetting about the indentured servants. The also built this country. They were shipped out from England and treated even worse than the slaves. Where slaves were considered an investment and property, Indentured servants were barely fed for 7 years.

No, I don't think we should be a penny. Yes, it was horrible but you can't hold the entire civilized population accountable.

Answer 2

i agree with it, i really do. though some of your relatives..and some of my relatives weren't involved...it can easily be seen the differences in black culture and white culture, economically. yes there are poor blacks AND poor whites, as well as rich blacks AND rich whites, but percentage wise, there are more poor blacks than there are poor whites (by percentage) and there are less rich blacks than rich whites.
if you've never had anything and you are given freedom but nothing else, (no aid, no resources) and you are facing a world where everyone is already ten steps ahead of you, you'll never catch up. That's why programs such as affirmative action were initiated. sad to say, that's why the welfare program was initiated, because poor folks could never catch up on their own. However, funding for the welfare program has been cut drastically. affirmative action has been all but deleted (and there is white affirmative action at black colleges, so don't even say anything about that).

So yes reparations would be a good thing...i don't believe a blank check would help anyone...but something more along the lines of tax breaks for minority businesses...more affirmative action programs....tuition assistance for minorities...that kinda deal, so that it's not just "giving people money" they earn their keeps. Indians got reparations, why not black folk? Though you and I were not responsible, we cannot hide the fact that a wrong was done for centuries, and that wrong must be made right for the sake of all humanity.

and to talk about crime rate as one person has....how is it that 1 in 3 black men will spend some time in jail before they die? 1 in 3! Are they any less people than a white man or a jewish man or a hispanic man. My contention is that there is a problem with the system, and alot of it has to do with economics, and that stems all of the way back to the beginning when slaves were let free and not given anything to support them. so yes, reparations.

(and INDIANS DID GET REPARATIONS PEOPLE!!!)

"You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the ***** without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry… Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong…with capitalism… There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism. "
~one late great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 3

I believe we have made reparations several times:

1. The Blood of 600,000 Americans in the Civil War.

2. The Emancipation Proclamation.

3. LBJs "War on Poverty"; which to this point has cost the American taxpayers roughly 5 trillion dollars. (Much of which has been gone to Blacks who were (and still are) disproportionately poor when factoring on race.) Wait, isn't that also pretty close to the amount of the national debt? So we've mortgaged our grand-children's prosperity to make reparations but that doesn't seem to be enough yet.

Answer 4

The first part of your question is good, but then you go racist on us and totally blow your cover. If we make reparations, why not start where the first slavery and discrimination occurred - with the Native Americans? They are the people who lost their land to the Spaniards, the English, the French and the Portugese. If you exclude them from righting the wrongs, well, you never even started the job. Blacks have nothing to complain about that didn't happen to the Native Americans first.

Answer 5

Reparations go to those who were personally treated by injustice. Not to their great-great-grandchildren. If you find me anybody alive today who was a slave, I would support reparations for them. But since all slaves are long dead, the book is closed. The demand for reparations is just a con game by people who think manipulating White Guilt is more productive than work.

Answer 6

I don't even know where to begin on this subject. i personally think that it's bullshit. The people that want to be compensated now were not even alive when slavery was going on. Plus, i was definitely not around when it was occurring, so why should i have to pay anything? Why should anyone? there were, and are, so many oppressed people, of all races that had to endure hard times. The past is over! Oh, yeah, and the poor native americans have it much worse than blacks.

Answer 7

Do you mean rape-a-nation? Just remember the pyramids were built with Jewish slave labor. Also remember the evil white man who bought slaves in Africa bought most of them from other black men. No one should have to bear the burden for something that someone else did. Maybe African-Americans need to volunteer to pay reparations to the ancestors of the union troops who freed them? Or how about we just call it even? Whites paid in blood. Blacks paid in toil. Both made the country better. Shouldn’t everyone be thankful that we live in the US? Especially African-Americans. Does anyone want to live in Africa? It’s not the land of milk and honey but the land of pestilence, war, disease, and hunger.

Answer 8

I really wish that we could somehow make up for what happened during the slave days. If paying off every family related to a slave of the past, would it really change things the way life is today?
I guess I question the number of black people who are here from other foreign country's in the last few years who think we owe them too.

Answer 9

LOL. You racist bastards. Check the welfare rolls 80 percent of the welfare recipients are white. Reperations are actually a way for black people to have a legacy based on the work they did to build this country and only got paid in rape, lynchings and abuse. To the guy who posed the 30 year crime question. Here's mine : If your dad and other relatives were forced to work against his will shouldn't his descendants be eligible to receive the wages that were rightfully his ?

When Japan atacked Pearl Harbor (an act of war); this country responded well within its rights by bombing the crap out of them. But then assisted in rebuilding them the same way the U.S. is now assisting Iraq. Blacks and Native Americans deserve at least reperations for all of the horrors they endured at the hands of a country who assists its enemies, but enslaves its own.

P.S Crime gets committed about the same its the sentencing that makes you think that blacks commit more. I gotta go now I think I'm going to eat crackers for snack

Answer 10

I think we already have, with welfare, increased crime, etc. Why they feel like they are entitled to everything is beyond me.

Look at Katrina, they just sat back and waited for the government to bring them their hand-outs. Why can't they do ANYTHING for themselves? I feel sorry that their culture is suffering this way, with this mindset. I think they should spend more time trying to better themselves instead of sitting around being bitter, in hopes that they can guilt the government into giving them more hand-outs.

Look what happened when New England flooded, they worked together and fixed it. There was no complaining for FEMA, and they did not get a free gift card, that is for sure.