Should African Americans be given reperations for what there ancestors had to go through?

Answer 1

Reparations? No. Giving people a check because their ancestors had it really rough is wrong on a lot of levels.

However, the core issue of African Americans (and other minorities) living today generally having it harder because their families didn't get much, if anything, via inheritance or opportunities for advancement (due to decades of discrimination) is a valid issue. There needs to be an understanding that, in general, white children today benefit from better schools, better nutrition provided to them, and better economic starts in life. There is no meritocracy at work here: it's the influence of inheritance. This is a result of generations of slavery on this continent, as well as subsequent decades of discrimination, and its effects are just as real today as ever.

Reparations? No. A check won't solve anything (except next month's bills.) Programs like Affirmative Action that provide opportunities to children who didn't come from affluent white families in affluent neighborhoods? Yes. While no government program is perfect, Affirmative Action helps break the cycle of poverty in a very real way for many minorities. If a white "C student" can go to Yale and become the President, then what could an "A student" from a largely minority school in a poor neighborhood accomplish if given a real chance?

Answer 2

By all means. The ones that should be responsible for paying that reparation are the ones that were directly responsible for creating the problem. The ones that should receive that reparation are the ones that directly suffered as the result of the problem. My family owned a grocery store that was robbed in the late 70's on a weekly basis by Blacks. I do not expect the Black Community to pay my family back for the losses that my Mother and Father suffered. Why should the Black Community expect me to pay for the suffering that some distant ancestor of mine my have cause some distant ancestor of theirs.

Answer 3

Only if the English get reparations from the Romans, and only if the Jews get it from the Egyptians, and only if the Lithuanians get it from the Mongols, and only if all those people Alexander conquered get it from Greece, and only if... Basically everyone has been getting screwed over since man walked upon this Earth. Now you have a choice when you are getting screwed. You stand up or you lay there and take it. No reparations! I only support reparations for living victims as was the case after the Holocaust.

Answer 4

No, America should be punish the smae way African American ancestor where oppressed. Since people believe it was so long and and we where all slaves at one point or another. That nation who oppress is still here and going on and still able to recieve it's punishment.

As long as nations that committ such crime are still here they should be punish that's the only way to bring justice to the one who died in vain.


"don't let anybody make you think that god chose america as his divine messianic force to be... a sort of policeman of the whole world. god has a way of standing before the nations with judgement! and it seems that i can hear god saying to america... you are too arrogant... if you don't change your ways...
i will rise up and break the backbone of your power! and i will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name"

Martin Luther King

Answer 5

No, if they do I want reperations because Im a woman and we were treated less than a man.

Answer 6

NO. My ancestors were also slaves of sort, they worked to build the railroads. Indentured servants they were called. I don't expect anything for their suffering. I get to live in the greatest country in the world, that is payment enough.

Answer 7

No - because very often the chieftains and the tribal elders of the villages would sell their own people to slave traders to rid themselves of potential "troublemakers" and potential rivals for the young, marriageable women of the tribe. If reparations are offered for this, where will it end?

Answer 8

allow you to recognize what , prepare me one Black American that change into alive interior the days of Slavery and continues to be alive and nicely and A White man or woman also and that i visit agree that that white man or woman owes that Black man or woman something.... at the same time i imagine that because the in worry-free words race it really is feeling the impacts of the abuse their ancestors went with the help of are the community human beings so in case you initiate handing our reparations initiate there . i change into no longer alive for the period of slavery so I owe them no longer something, As for a museum why they have already got an complete month dedicated to Black heritage, Why no longer instead having American heritage month......No racism there......

Answer 9

sure, then they can afford to pay the descendants of the WHITE people who fought their battle to win their freedom in this country. the people who moan about reparations are sick, and hypocrites. if they were really indignant over slavery, instead of just fishing for a handout, they would be continuing the battle today. africa is full of slavery right now but no one complains....

Answer 10

I'm black, and I don't think so. My ancestors are out of slavery and I'm over it. I've moved on and so should the rest of the United States.