Slave Reparations??So what if you are Half-black you get half a check?

Question

Or if you look white but you are 10% percent black.What then, will they actually have to do a DNA test to verify your eligibility for a 10% reparations check? But isnt that racial profiling?? haha
What if your ancestor was made a slave but ran away the first day.Are you then disqualified for a reparations check?
Why should I pay for your reparation check, my ancestors came over here in 1913.So I didnt profit off of slavery.The party was over by the time we got here. So what about that? Are you going to give me my profits that I never got, before I have to pay for your reparation check?
The notion of slavery reparations is a notion that will become so rediculous that the idea will finally be scratched all together.And if your black, then listen, the problems that your race has are things that cash will never solve. To all the racist black comments that will ensue let me exercise my freedom to tell you go **** yourself!

Answer 1

I wonder if I can get a reparations check? My ancestors weren't African slaves but they were bond servents. I have paper work from genealogy that my grand-mother had done.

I doubt it..LOL..I also have ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War..but it doesn't mean anything but alot of pride knowing that my family rose above being a slave to anything and fought for everything.

Answer 2

Native Americans reparations were great and we owed them because we took their land. How could the govt find the legal Africans now that had slaves as ancestors? Look at how the New Orleans funds were scammed and that was with present day birth records, SS no.,drivers license,etc. and computers to track the funds! There is no way to do the reparations fairly now. It should have been paid , but wait-they got 40 acres and a mule which was good money then, to the slave generations that were slaves as soon as they were allowed freedom.We need to find solutions to the problems at the time and not generations later. About the blood Q. If you had one drop of African blood you were considered a slave, including the plantation owner's mixed children. There are too many variables to be able to pay them now. When they recieved the 40 acres and mule they had the resource to live and make good. Yes, it was hard but some made it, just as thier white counterparts did.

Answer 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.

Answer 4

I am Black and educated. I don't want forty acres and a mule. I don't want a reparation check. But I sure as he** would like to be treated human, instead of like someone who is sub human because my skin is darker and my culture is different. I have to work twice as hard as someone white and get half as much. The only reason we can vote is b/c a bill was passed. It's not even a law and could be revoked if someone wanted to. Institutions such as equal opportunity employment had to be instilled b/c white people who have owned everything from the begining would not give anyone who was not white a fare shake. And when someone who was not white did get a position they were paid less and it still happens today. Don't act like we are all lazy and don't want to do anything. All people are created equal but all people are not treated equally.

Answer 5

very touchy issue/no, i don't believe in reparations/the thing is, noone living today experienced that, nor did their parents///

what activist groups should focus on is spotlighting discrimination, which i believe to be prominent in many communities all over this planet

do you realize that where i live, i'm often treated as a second-class citizen, or an illegal, based on my looks/how can these people know, without asking, that my family has been in the US for 4 generations, has quite a few military veterans, community leaders, PhDs, MDs, BAs...yet, they automatically
assume i can't even speak english.../
i don't believe these people i come across are the future leaders of the US/how can they complain about "losing their country", when the very statement, "losing my country" is racist, supremacist, and evil

Answer 6

"the problems that your race has are things that cash will never solve"....and if you lose a limb, eyesight, or the ability to walk while on the job, while serving your country, or as an accident, money won't solve, fix, or return you to the way you were, but it won't hurt you either :)

Until you have walked a mile in someone's shoes or in this case, in their skin, you will never really have a full understanding of "the problems that [any other] race has."

I don't disagree with the comments that African Americans take more responsibility for their futures, but I believe this in general, not because of race.

But I would like you to tell us what YOU think the "problems" are and what solutions you have.

Answer 7

lol i cant respond to that its comical
for sum reason i think you think every white person got go in there pocket and give a black person half they money lol
to bad the slaves more than like built the port that your ancestors
arrived in else yo *** still be out in the ocean and genius slave trade profits did reach Europe and another thing just because me and you and some other discuss race relations does not make me nor you a racist actually we are the good one why because we put it out in the open its the ones that hide under the hood
and have secrete meetings ...and fly planes into buildings and kill civilians ...don't worry your moneys safe..lol

Answer 8

If they give slave reparations, I'm either burning down the White House, or moving to Canada.

Answer 9

sounds like indian gaming casinos in California.
totally stupid. the indians currently living in California have no clue what it was like to actually live off the land. all they know is gambling=money for them.

and yet they get special privileges for just being 'native Americans'

wait- i am a 'native American'. i was born here just like they were. why don't i get special privileges???

i know why.. because California is stupid, it almost always has been, and i am sure it always will be. it's about the same with the rest of the country too.

Answer 10

Before I pay the slave reparations, can I at least own them for a couple centuries so then I SHOULD pay them??