2006-07-17 07:07:03 · 17 answers · asked by soulsista 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Yes. Black people in America are the only people in the world who truly don't know who they are. They've taken upon the last name of their slave masters and were robbed of every invention they've created because they were considered as property and not humans. So when blacks were freed and promised 40 acres and a mule it should still be a given. It only serves as a reminder of not only our past and who we are being stolen from us, but also the stolen dreams of a better future. If America had lived up to its promise most of the poverty you see in black America may not even exist to this day.
2006-07-17 07:20:44 · answer #1 · answered by mrpuffandstuff 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
No, 40 acres and a mule don't do justice. 400 years of oppression we should be allow to return the favor. Then whites can truly say that we are even. Compensation or reparations will not be paid but judgment will be. God will judge America for all of it's crimes because America can't judge it's self. All the people America kill and oppressed are dead, and America goes unpunished. But America is still alive and well and still can receive it punishment for the nations sins.
When God judge America he will find lairs, deceive, blasphemer's, rapist, terrorist, and the 7 things that the Lord hates. The very ones who say we have to forgive and forget are the same one who will be judge. Because that do not bring justice to the ones who died, oppressed and hated to go in vain. No one was put on Earth for the sole purpose to die are be oppressed by someone Else God will be the one who cast judgment but not on white but on America.
2006-07-17 16:48:57 · answer #2 · answered by justme 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. That was something from over 140 years ago for anyone alive then. Find me anyone that that was "promised" to, and they can have it. Promises, even if that's what it was, since there is some debate on that, don't get passed from generation to generation. If somebody owed your dad $20 bucks from 30 years ago, you think you've got a right to collect it?
Want your 40 acres? Work for it like everybody else.
2006-07-17 07:15:38 · answer #3 · answered by bigsharkbait 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
and much more like a formal apology and reparations. every other people that America has harmed have been compensated in some way, why not African Americans? If the fake Jews receive billions in aid from America every year then how much more should Gods true Chosen people receive? People imply that African Americans are just not helping ourselves but every time we have raised ourselves up there has been a systematic attempt to keep us down. give us our reparations and we will show the world Gods glory!
2006-07-17 07:14:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, but I think that they should get at least $250,000 per family for all of the problems their ancestors had to go through, it is only fair. Some of my ancestors were slaves as well and we know what the blacks are going through. You cannot blame everything on the White man, blacks have to stand up for themselves and make their own way too, just like the rest of us. The people who I think should get their land back are the Native Americans. It was theirs to begin with, so they should have it back.
2006-07-17 07:19:30 · answer #5 · answered by Andrea 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure - just as soon as they can produce papers that show they were once slaves and now are free. "My ancestors were slaves", claim still will not count - you cannot prove they were either.
One last thing - maybe if you can show us where all the millions and millions of blacks that were killed here in America are buried, then maybe we'll consider the mule.
2006-07-17 07:14:50 · answer #6 · answered by Gladiator 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Umm, no. I suppose if a person was forced into living in the United States, then the answer would be yes. But those types of things don't seem to be happening anymore. Lest I hope not!
2006-07-17 07:12:55 · answer #7 · answered by indianalee 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sure, after the Native Americans get their land back.
Honestly, it's a bit of a moot point. It's in the past, the settlers screwed over many people, and all those people were our ancestors. I'm Native American, but I know there's no real point in kicking everyone out of the US who's not Native American.
2006-07-17 07:12:38 · answer #8 · answered by Kitti 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes! Of course the 21st Century equivalent!
2006-07-17 07:10:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe black people should be treated the same as every body else. No better, no worse.
2006-07-17 07:13:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋