Do you think Black people in America should get reparations?

Question

I personally do not think so.

Answer 1

I think that getting reparations at this time would create more problems than it will solve. The whole logistics of it would be so complex and it will create much division and hatred in America between whites and blacks and between blacks who get it and blacks who don't. I think that black people should receive funding for DNA research to help locate their African origins.

Answer 2

No. today's people are just trying to dupe others for
their own reparations. Our generation had nothing
to do with slaves and we're not responsible to what
happened before we were ever born. I'm part Indian
and I've not asked for nor received any reparations
for land taken from my ancestors and the killings that
took place.

Answer 3

They already did by the blood of Union soldiers during the Civil War. The American Indians still deserve compensation. The Blacks can go back to their opposing tribes in Sierra Leone and other parts of Africa that sold their brothers into slavery in the first place for reparations.

Answer 4

Maybe maybe not. To answer this we have to find out why they never got it from slavery when they were slaves. Yet 100 years after the emancipation proclamation most blacks couldn't even vote.

Their was a VERY BIG reason they never got reparations I think this it it:

1919, tens of thousands of Black Americans were killed, maimed and 375,000 were made refugees, though never being given refugee status, all for economic, social, political and other reasons both real and imaginary. They even killed Blacks for recreation activities in rural areas in events called "Friday Night Boot Burnings" (the burning of a Black man at a stake or bonfire)
or " Picnic" (a slang term for pick a ****** for lynching} Lynching became a common weekly event to kill the monotony of rural life. It was not uncommon for whites to eat, drink, dance and sing church songs as they created a sadistic festive atmosphere, while their victims suffered from torture.

In the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, police flew airplanes and dropped nitroglycerin and dynamite on 600 Black businesses, burned 1500 homes and destroyed a 35 square block area of the Black community of Tulsa also known as the Greenwood District. It was so prosperous it was nationally known as Black Wall Street. The riot was intended to put Blacks back in their place.

The Red Summer Riots of 1919

The Rosewood Massacre of 1923

Colored People &

The N.Y. Draft Riot of 1863

The Church & The N.Y. Draft Riots

Labor Competition & The N.Y. Draft Riot

New Orleans Race Riot of 1866

Washington Race Riot of 1919

The Colfax Massacre 1873

Chicago Race Riot of 1919

Omaha Race Riot 1919

Kirven Texas 1922

The fight for reparation let to many lynching check out this gallery
http://www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com/lynching%20photos.html

Answer 5

No I do not. But I do believe in a better Affirmative Action. I think paying out reparations at this point would be too complicated. Who would determine how much people get? How much is enough? And most of all, money will not erase the past. Racism is still with us in the US in a horrible way that people are content to ignore. It could be that Affirmative Action is the wrong answer -- but either way, radical steps need to be taken to educate people, to offer equal opprortunities to all, and to help the predominantly poor African American population begin to improve its own lot.

Answer 6

I think reparations should be paid for slavery. I firmly believe that anyone living in this country who owned a slave, should be forced to pay reparations to the person that they had as a slave.

Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!

Answer 7

Like somebody else already said, if they want reparations so bad, they should hit up their Masters' ancestors over in Sierra Leone.

Answer 8

Not to sound like a jerk but no. Their ancestors are the ones who should've had reparations and not them.

Answer 9

Not unless they can prove they are entitled to reparations.

Answer 10

Nope. They need to stop living in the past, get over it already and move on. Other nationalities have overcome adversity and moved on. Why can't the blacks?