Where are my reparations?

Question

Yes I asked?

You think I don't deserve them?

Why?

Now you know that response will not hold up because of past practice and case law.

Do you think it's right for your tax dollar to go to the middle east for foreigners.

Have you thought how it would set economy on fire and your still against reparations for Black Americans.

Do you think it is too complex a equation?

Yet you don't think you have a small mind?

Do you believe as some say that welfare was reparations?

Are you a proud racist or in the closet?

Are you middle class and fear of losing your status in life?

Do you think if it were to happen do you believe the money would be squandered?

Would you check a box on your tax return to donate money for reparations?

Do you believe because Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton are the main hucksters that this is a con?

Answer 1

Yes, I think because Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are involved, it is a con.

If reparations could take the form of full scholarships for any college, graduate school or medical school in the US for all descendants of slaves who could prove their ancestry, then I would agree with reparations.

Otherwise, it is a scam, in my most humble opinion.

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

Get a job. I ain't a racist, but why do brotha's always got to ask for handouts? The day the black man stands on his own 2 feet is the day they will realize that they have equal opportunity as the rest of us. Yeah yeah, slavery sucked, but don't forget....the slaves were sold to Euro's by AFRICANS! Get your reparations from them.

Answer 4

no I do not feel that you are owed reparation, granted what took place during that time was a terrible thing and should never have happened but it was not you who lived it and it was not me who did it to them,,,, so again no you are not owed anything and I do not owe you anything , in today's day and age we are all afforded the same opportunity's ,,,,,,,,,life is what you make of it and we are all responsible for our own successes and failures.....and before you go jumping to conclusions that i must be racist,,,,,,,,,, no I am not ,,,,,my family is comprised of a wide range of races and nationalities , Irish , African American, white , Italian , Native American .and Hispanic............I don't feel that I should be paid for the land stolen from my people so why should you be paid for the work of yours.

Answer 5

Given this inane rant and your later solicitation for money I have no doubt you will receive exactly the reparations you deserve in the mail.

Answer 6

Where are my reparations? Irish and Chinese built the railway for next to nothing, where's my share?

Answer 7

Become Jewish and argue that your relatives died in the Holocaust.

Worth much more than 40 acres and a mule.

Answer 8

Why do you in this day and age "deserve" something from me, I don't know you!

Why do black people hate white people and they aren't called Racists?

Stop being so angry, it's not christian!

Answer 9

Reparations hell I aint paying for something that someone did 400 years. Asking for someone to pay for the wrongdoings of people 400 years ago,leads me to beleive someone needs some extra crack money, My relatives got here in 1902 there was no slavery then so quit blaming the wrong people. Jackson & Sharpton! Heres my opinion of them ........................................................................................................................................................................................................

Answer 10

get a job. its easier than begging. and the money is garaunteed.