SLAVERY! i just read online that decendant's of slaves are trying to sue companies who owned slaves?

Question

the people who are suing were never slaves and at the time slavery was legal.i believe this does nothing but fuel the fires of racism.get over it.slavery was abolished in 1865.my family(i'm white)were also slaves.do you think thier case has merit?why?does this fuel racism?souldn't the black race move past the past?

Answer 1

Yes, I think they should get a big SORRY from all of america. And then we will have a big parade with a giant white cake and a jew, italian, hispanic, and irish dudes will jump out of it and go what about us you black bitches, we were descriminated and made slaves too. Then all the white people will start rioting in the ghetto.

seriosly, black and wihte people need to get over this racism issue and move on with thier lives. Death is the only true equalizer, God the only true judge.

You also have to realise that the news reports this stuff because they know it gets everyone fired up; the media has made this an issue and they are the true slave owners. Our minds are slaves to thier false senses of reality. Take what anyone says on the TV with a grain of salt.
Peace,

Answer 2

I pretty much disagree with all the answers so far. I look at it this way: if two friends or a husband and wife have an argument, the best way to heal things is for one of them to say "I'm sorry." After that, they can move on and get back to a healthy relationship. I think it is the same with past wrongs. It is frustrating for people who have been wronged or whose famiy has been wronged to constantly hear "Oh, that was in the past; it's over now" or "Racism doesn't exist" or "I didn't do it personally, so what's the point?" What would be the harm in our president declaring that a wrong was done by our government in the past? Wouldn't that help people "move on," as others claim we should? By the way, there has been a public apology and reparations for Native Americans. I know that for sure because my family got a small amount of money from it. People who say that slavery was in the past are conveniently forgetting (perhaps because they have the luxury of being white) that the effects of slavery STILL CONTINUE TODAY. I don't know one black person who hasn't been stopped by the police for no reason, who hasn't been followed in a store or mistreated by a store clerk, who hasn't been judged unfairly because of skin color. Those things are happening TODAY, and they stem from the fact that people of color were not considered full human beings during slavery and even in the Constitution. I think our society would have a better chance of healing racism--which it sorely needs--if a public declaration and apology were given by the government that slavery was wrong, that slaves were badly mistreated, that families were split apart, that huge white family wealth and national wealth was built on the backs of free slave labor, and that the effects continue to this day. THEN we could "move on." Until then, it's just like telling your friend to "get over it" when you haven't apologized yet.

Answer 3

I think slavery was a bad thing, too, but the law suits should've come from the victims of it and not a hundred years later.
I get tired of hearing how bad the 'white people' were for owning slaves, while the light skinned blacks that owned slaves are never mentioned.
Also a fact that's over looked is how tribe chiefs sold people to the whites, be them captured from a war with another tribe or a controversial child. Or be the tribe poor, the chief would sell the 'lesser' people to support the rest of the tribe.
Granted, maybe the whites did chase down slaves, who knows, but not every slave that was brought over here was 'poached' from his/her native land.
And I think what the whites did to the Native Americans was far worse than what was done to the slaves. At least the 'masters' had to care for and house the slaves that were brought over.

Answer 4

Beautiful, yes slavery was legalized by white Americans. Obviously these people had no sense of Humanity. Laws are given legitimacy by a conglomerate of usually rich white folk whose disregard for the Universal Laws of Humanity are evident only to those that have not been sullied by these people's avariciousness.
As far as reparations is concerned why would you or any other opponent of Justice worry? If your forefathers disapproved of H.R. 29 basically saying, "They ought to glad their free!", your sentiments are in accord; afterall you and those like you make the...Law?

Answer 5

No , the case does not have merit . Next they'll be digging up the slave owners and suing them too . Should the Holocaust victims' families sue Germany ?

Answer 6

First, let's not lump ALL African-Americans into the category of "not letting the past be past". I don't think this fuels racism perse, but it definitely flares tempers in terms of the issue of "race" and reparations.

Answer 7

I agree, the past is the past, leave it there. I don't think that it is right to punish someone for something that one of their ancestors did a long time ago.

Answer 8

iam a black american and do not like the term african american. Germany has black germans and that is what they are called not african german. There sould be know reason for the law suit sounds like a get rich scheme to me........an equal america please.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

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