How do we FAIRLY pay reparations for slavery?

Question

I'm an old white boy. My niece and my nephew are obviously of African ancestry. My sister has a good job, and spent lots of money on their food, clothing, education. Now, IF black people are going to get money from white people, how should this family handle it? Does my sister get to deduct half the money she spent, since it went to persons half black? Do my niece and nephew have to pay anything, since they look black enough to be discriminated against? Since they are apparently half white, do they only get half as much? Could they just write each other a check for the same amounts? If one of their grandparents was descended from old-time slaves, and the other from a U.N. staff member who came here in 1959, do they only get one-fourth as much?

I fear that reparations will not bring peace and justice. Most of the people who pay, will resent it as too much, and, I fear that many of the people who GET the money will resent it as not enough.

Answer 1

I don't want reparations. And a lot of black people don't want them either. I wasn't a slave, my parents weren't slaves, my grandparents weren't slaves. I just want to be treated fairly and given the same opportunities as others who are on my level. You don't have to give me something for nothing. But recognize my talents and hire me based on my knowledge.

Answer 2

Every former USA slave still living should receive $2 million. Every child of a former USA slave still living should receive $1 million.
Everyone else -- zip. Enough time has gone by that they should have "mainstreamed" and joined the regular economy. Hey, Michael Jackson was the King of Pop in 1984, proof that a young black man could excel.

P.S. My people were driven off their land and put into involuntary servitude. I'm still waiting for an apology -- from Rome -- but I'm not holding my breath. I don't expect reparations.

Answer 3

Why should I have to pay for something in which I was not involved? I'm only 30 years old. I wasn't alive in the 1800s. My ancestors were, and they held slaves, but why should I be held accountable for their actions?

I think people need to wake the f*ck up and start working for a living instead of hanging around doing any- and everything they can to avoid it.

Answer 4

During slavery many light-skinned blacks were slaves also, even though their father was white. Mainly that was because the master knew they had "black blood". Years later after slavery light-skinned blacks could "get over" while darker blacks were treated harshly as if they were still slaves. White immigrants could gain jobs faster or before blacks could, even though they were born here. There are many ways as I am sure you know there are as to disperse supposed reparations funds. One way is to first care for those blacks whose family is mostly dark skinned because they were discriminated against by light-skinned blacks and whites, then attend to the remaining descendants old people first seeing as how they experienced the most hatred

Answer 5

This is one those times when thinking can be a dangerous thing in your case.If there is to be a reparation and I highly doubt it. It would go to the blood lines of the original slaves family. And proof would need to be determine.

Answer 6

the only people who deserve reparations are people who've suffered from slavery. no longer one individual contained in the final 4 generations merits a goddamned ingredient, era. you do no longer make up for an atrocity via paying to conceal it up, the two. 6% of white human beings in u.s. in 1860 have been slave-proprietors. Out of 9.a million million, approximately 3 hundred,000 owned a slave. A slave fee approximately as much as a medium-priced Kia. around $10,000 in 2010 money. no longer even one out of sixteen white human beings contained in the late 1800's owned a slave, and intensely almost all human beings adversarial slavery. would desire to somebody who fought for slaves to be freed be compelled to pay reparations for them, thinking they have been on the fringe of the slaves? would desire to human beings at present pay for shìt that folk who died over one hundred years in the past did? recover from it. whether I gave you a goddamned mule and 40 acres, what the hell would you do with it? build a basketball court docket? strengthen weed?

Answer 7

The majority of white people alive today weren't perpetrators of human slavery, and thus owe nothing to no one. The majority of African-Americans alive today weren't indentured into servitude, so none of them are owed anything.

My grandparents came over from Sicily in the early 1900's, and none of us can understand what you all are fighting over.

Let's move on.

Answer 8

Easy....We simply pay One Million dollars to each living individual who was a slave. It's the only fair thing to do.

Answer 9

We don't. None of us alive were part of it. My family wasn't even here. They need to stop crying and get on with their lives. Every nationality faced this here at one time or another.

Answer 10

We don't. I never owned slaves. No American alive owned slaves. No black alive was a slave. End of Reparations.