Why reparations for slavery and why today, many generations later?

Answer 1

When are you all going to learn that African Americans are not thinking about that ****.Only a Small number are keeping up trouble on the subject, so take a chill pill and sit your tight *** down.Stop bringing it up already !!!!!

Answer 2

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 3

Politics, politics, politics. Cause Jesse Jackson and the other leaders of the sheople have the ability to get a rather large group of sheople to respond with a emotionally (not logically) charged argument. Sheople vote. To bad alot of them don't remember it was the Democrats (e.g., the Senator Fullbright who was a later mentor to BJ Clinton) who tried to fillibuster the Voting Rights Act of the 60's.

Answer 4

The children should not have to pay for the sins of their parents. My grand parents are polish, and They're not asking for money from Germany for WWII or the Russians for occupying their country durring the cold war. If they did they would be rightly laughed at and scoffed. I do feel ashamed of that part of Americas history, but I don't feel I owe anything to anyone for something that none of my ancestors were involved in.

Answer 5

It's the most ludicrous idea I have ever heard of. The US wasn't responsible for slavery, the English and Europeans were the ones that brought the slaves her not us. This is another one of Jesse Jackson's hair brain schemes to make money for himself.

Answer 6

Watch the episode of Penn and Teller: Bull**** about it.

Answer 7

Ignorant ghetto dwellers want more welfare money to spend on crack cocaine and malt liquor, It doesn't make sense.

Answer 8

becsause it was wrong and someone has to pay

Answer 9

for the black vote stupid.