Shouldn't African-Americans get reparations since Jews, Japanese and Native Americans got compensation?

Question

Fair would be fair. Please the idiot who wants to answer that Black peole get welfare, don't even say it. Most the people on welfare aren't Black and that is not compensation. If you think of it, if you up lift the Black community it would be good for the whole country.

Answer 1

Creative American history at best.

http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/native14.htm

Answer 2

Shouldn't every pacific island nation get compensation? They didn't have much land to begin with, and then the U.S. Government goes and sets off a nuclear bomb right smack in the middle of the tiny island of Bikini (thought that was just a swimsuit, huh?).
Why is it that big governments always use underdeveloped nations, and the people from them, as test subjects and work horses? I suppose it is easier to ask forgiveness after the fact. Instead of reparations such as land and autonomy (like the Native Americans were given) I believe that the focus should be on better education and more government funded grants (like the pell grant) as an incentive for continued education for inner city kids. Better funding of intramural activies would also make a difference. I totally hear what you're saying about welfare. I grew up in subsidized housing and saw a LOT of welfare abuse and most of chronic abusers I can think of weren't black.

We human beings contradict ourselves on a regular basis. The Belgians used the Congo, the English used India, Burma gained independance from England and then turns around and opresses the Karen tribe

Answer 3

What compensations did the Jews get? And if you say they got Israel the maybe you need to look at where Nigeria? came from? I believe African Americans were give the land in Africa to make their own country. The Japanese were given a small amount to compensate for being sent to prison camps during WW2 and those were AMERICAN citizens at the time. And what did the American Indians get beside self governance which allowed them to build casinos on their land. If you are seeking reparations for slaves then produce the slaves, and I will agree that they are entitled, but African Americans alive today have no living family members today who were slaves nor do they any concept of being a slave was really like. So no they shouldn't get reparations. You have the power to raise yourself up and in doing so help the Black Community the first step is to stop listening to leaders who's basis of power is people they convince are victims and incapable of rising up themselves because whites are holding them back. These leaders live off of the Black community not for it and need people to be victims or they will find themselves unneeded, unwanted and unemployed. So do it yourself and don't play the victim it doesn't help anyone Black or White. And some have played this game so well that illegal immigrants are taking pages from the same play book does that help the Black community? I don't think so.

Answer 4

NO.....The reparations for the Jews, Japanese, and native Americans went to the people who were persecuted, Their are no
African Americans alive in the U.S. today that were ever held in Bondage, and I refuse to be held accountable for the sins of my grandfathers. That would be like you having to do jail time because it was discovered that your great , great , great grandfather murdered someone. That wouldn't be fair, just like it wouldn't be fair for the taxpayers to have to pay for the sins of a bunch of ignorant fools 150 years ago. As far as the Jim Crow laws and ETC. A simple apology should do it, and I'm all for apology's for that because that was something that many African Americans still around today Went though. But their should be no monetary reparations.

Answer 5

The country of Liberia was granted to freed slaves (the capitol of Monrovia was actually named in memory of president James Monroe). Much like Israel was granted to the Jews post-WWII. I don't know about you, but I consider an entire country sufficient compensation.

Africans were granted land and rights within their region of origin.
Jews were granted land and rights within their region of origin.
Native Americans were granted land and rights within their region of origin.
Japanese were granted a nominal sum of money as they were never taken from a traditional homeland.

See a pattern here? Compensation has already been given. At the time. As it should have been.

Some people will never be happy with any amount of compensation. To them I ask this question: My family came here in the early 1900s, so why should I pay for slavery? My family obviously never benefited from slavery. We never owned slaves. For NINETY YEARS we have been here working blue-collar jobs as average Americans without benefiting from slavery. Why, then, should I pay a dime to someone who happened to be born with a particular skin tone? Because of something that happened in the distant past?

I'm sorry, but this is one of the most ridiculous concepts I've ever heard. Did you honestly say, 'if you up lift the Black community it would be good for the whole country'? I've -never- insulted an asker before, but I have to say, are you truly that dumb? How does that help my family? We're just normal blue-collar Americans. So you're going to what? Pay off some other group out of money that could have gone to schools for everybody? Out of higher taxes on my wages? See, that's just theft to me. Someone wants to steal my hard-earned wages through higher taxes, then give that money to someone else for absolutely no sane reason whatsoever. That amounts to theft plain and simple, and stealing is wrong despite what some politicians seem to think. This is the most racist thing I've ever heard uttered in modern America. I'm ashamed of anyone who would even consider such an outright theft. It's deplorable, it's disgusting, it's immoral, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Answer 6

Those people had land taken from them and were given land back (at a huge loss mind you) to make up for it. Technically blacks had no land so they got no reparation. I'm not saying its right, but that's the reason. That's how reparations worked for those people you mentioned. You don't get money just land that nobody wants. So if a bunch of blacks want to take over Wyoming or Afghanistan then I say yeah, let em at it.

Answer 7

Yes, anyone who was slave should apply for compensation. However if it happened to your great great great grandma just get over it.

Otherwise, should the Irish get compensation for the potato famine, or the highland Scots get compensation for being forced off their land during the clearances? What about the expulsion of the Acadians? Or how about the Armenian genocide? A nice apology wouldn't hurt though.

Answer 8

A big huge YES!!!! The only question is how to do it fairly, exactly to whom. I guess a study into which modern companies benefited off of the free labor from Black slavery in the U.S. Also then how to wisely use the money. I would say things such as land grants, business grants, free education, etc. What had started out before as just a meager idea has really gained steam lately with very prominent people of all colors agreeing on the subject. Good question.

Answer 9

I am not sure if I know enough about the subject--to eloquently answer the question. I think that something needs to be done to amend the ways of the past. The only question that comes next is...where does it stop? And when has too much time gone by?
Seriously...
Who judges?

Answer 10

That's hilarious. My great grandmother was 100% Apache. Neither she, nor any of her ancestors, got any form of compensation.

What would be "good for the whole country", would be for everyone to quit whining about the past. Atleast you have your race around. Where's mine?

Answer 11

I believe that as we strive as a nation to become equal, we do more damage by offering reperations saying we are sorry to any individual culture or race, this seperates them and causes them to be singled out as victims that deserve to be treated different while the whole time they insist they just want to be treated like everonr else. this hand out for long over injustices promotes seperation and seperation equates to racism. (and of course i am white)