Are there any white people here who would pay blacks reparations?

Question

sorry if spellings not right, or even are there blacks out there who would if you know your ancestors owned slaves? which did happen in some cases

why the hell am i automatically a racist for asking a simple question, people are stupid

Answer 1

I'm sorry you're a racist. But to answer your question, it is not "white people" that would be responsible for paying reparations for slavery. It would be the U.S. Government from some fund undisclosed. IT would not come out of taxpayers' pockets. And why does it matter, if it is true, that blacks owned slaves hundreds of years ago? That still doesn't make up for the residual effects that affects blacks today. Generational poverty (look it up). Racism as a whole. These things are still very present. You're a bigoted white person with a small mind incapable of entertaining other viewpoints which is why it is sooooo unfathomable for you to accept blacks getting ANYTHING.

Racists are usually ignorant and you're no exception. Let me ask you a question, what do you have to say about the Jews, Native Americans and Koreans who were given reparations (look it up)? Why shouldn't blacks be allowed the same.

Answer 2

This is actually a serious question. Let's assume that we all decided that "YES!" we will pay reparations. There are insurmountable tactical and logistical issues that would prevent reparations from occurring.

A governing body would need to identify who was the decendants of slaves. As such they would need to identify who, in fact was a slave. This would require the matching of records of slave owners (which are mostly non-existant) to the DNA of slaves. This DNA could only be extracted by digging up known slave graves.

Then, living individuals would need to have thier DNA tested to see how much 'SLAVE' they are decended from. For example, everybody has eight great grandparents. If four were Scottish, two were Aztec and two were slaves then that living person could only get 25% of reparations per person. This percentage would then be furhter diluted if those Scottish ancestors were slave owners.

But if it just became a white versus black race 'thing' and if people found out that thier tax money was used to pay reparations for slavery there would be backlashes. They would take other monies back in the form of the contributions they make to charities, purchases they make to black businesses, hiring practices, etc.

Answer 3

I'm not paying squat to anyone till the British pay my family for the sheep they stole and the cows they killed back in Scotland! Mind you that was a few hundred years back...

It is a stupid idea, let it rest and everyone learn from the mistake and move on.

*edit For the people comparing the Native Americans to the African Americans.
African American slavery was not a contract, there was no promised made by the US goverment to each slave when they arrived on these shores. The slave traders went and stole these people and sold them as property. Not until later were there funds made available to freed slaves.

As far as the treaties with the Native American tribes goes, that was a legal contract and it was broken. The Native Americans were given signed treaties by the US government promising them land and assistance. The government then at various points in history ignored those treaties and sold the land to other people. They relocated the tribes and promised more assistance to make up for the hassle. From that point on it set a trend of moving the tribes to smaller and more desolate pieces of land.

So I do believe that the grants and scholarships provided to each ethnic group does not make up the wrongs that were done, but it does give a leg up to those that are in need because of social biases. Tribes receive tax breaks and funding so they may start their own business (casinos seem the most profitable for them). African Americans are given assistance with school, housing (not always the best but it is there) and funding to start businesses as well.
Before any of you go off and comment that I don't know anything, I am white and have to world handed to my race on a platter....my great grand mother is full blooded Lakota. I have heard enough of what different "Indian Agencies" did to her to respect people of different ethnic origins. The rest of the crazy bunch is Scottish and we have all seen Braveheart. We were the mangy looking Highlanders that showed up at the end of the movie. Again another group of people that were taken advantage of.
I don't expect reprirations and I am offended that these groups are insisting that I pay for slavery. My Scottish part of the family wasn't even here yet and I never heard of the Lakota keeping slaves.

Answer 4

Hell no!!!! I'm not some pathetic crack head ****** off the street!! I dont need no money from you guys, I can support myself! I don't even know if my great great gramps or whatever you want to call him was even a slave! Probably, but you know what? I don't give a $hit!!! Nobody needs to pay for our ancestors, slavery's over and that's good enough for me!
And it wasn't just the US that had black slaves, all the americas did so I don't know why some people here like to complain about it, actin all stupid!

Answer 5

No. What my ancestors may have done to their ancestors, no matter how heinous, has nothing to do with me. Slavery was a terrible thing and it is awful that any people had to suffer that, but I wasn't there, and neither were to many other people living today. We can not change what happened, but we can move on and work towards not letting anything like it happen again, in this country and in others.

Answer 6

Didn't everyone's ancestors suffer for the future generations' benefit? If it hadn't been for slavery, most blacks would still be living in a hut, with a big plate stuck in their lip, dancing around a stick. Africans are the only civilization that has not progressed AT ALL, since the beginning. To all of those who want paid for their freedom from all of that.....YOU'RE WELCOME!

Answer 7

no i wuld not for 1 thing it was a long time ago, blacks usually rnt helpful member of society, and they hav been complainin about it so long
well about 38% of welfare goes to whites and 37% goes to blacks and u might think o then the argument is wrong but whites make up 80% of tha population and blacks only 12% so even though there are about 6 1/2 times as many whites and the welfare #s are so close

Answer 8

i feel that anyone that was a slave who is actually alive today deserves reparations from any slave owner that is still alive today. i do not believe however, that any one who's ancestors were slave owners, but who themselves are not, should be responsible for reparations, just as anyone who's ancestors were slaves, but who themselves are not, do not deserve reparations. in short, i did nothing wrong, i will not pay for something someone else did, just as someone who is not a slave suffered nothing and deserves nothing

Answer 9

This is the only thing that I have against black people and the native americans.. they still want the white people to pay penance to them for their slavery. I DID NOT HAVE SLAVES... YOU WERE NOT A SLAVE... shut up.

Answer 10

for all of you that answered just as many blk people on welfare there a white ones 2 and all of you should stop being racist and your paying for the jews with no problem