I found this article on a controversal message board called bbsphere.com, the article has some pretty harsh things about blacks but at the same time is intresting, read the article and tell me if reparations are really needed, heres the link-http://bbsphere.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=275
2006-10-26 19:27:01 · 7 answers · asked by Mr. Know It All 2 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
If I killed Bill Gates a stole all of his money and me and his family died. Does that justify my descendants to Hold on to it and not give it back to his descendant? If blacks should have got paid back then that would mean the The Government should have paid. But they didn't does that mean they can keep it?
Are reparations needed? Who cares but the real question is why do America have a right to hold on to it.
2006-10-27 18:05:20 · answer #1 · answered by justme 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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.
2006-10-29 01:43:37 · answer #2 · answered by Carl 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I didn't read your link. I have a really strong opinion on this question. There was always slavery in the world and there still is in lots of places. Therefore, what will be given to the survivors of Union soldiers who died in their thousands to drive the institution of slavery from our country? Hundreds of my relatives died. Do I get something for that loss? I don't ask for it, but if something is being given ...maybe I should get a plantation or a "thank you" from the descendants of slaves who were freed?
2006-10-26 19:41:24 · answer #3 · answered by Susan M 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
sorry, but NO. what about all the White's that died to free the slaves do there families now deserve reparations? It was in fact there country that sold them and mainly the British that started to bring them. So why are we to be held responsible now.
2006-10-26 19:37:38 · answer #4 · answered by Go Wing's 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i am not black. i feel that most non blacks feel that they are always looking for a free ride,and as long as they keep getting welfare and such for YEARS and some have never workedin their lives. No they should not get reparations of any kind, if you do that then any and every race will say , hey my forefathers were treated badly, give me some free money. examples: american indians, japanese, irish, most of these people are proud and would rather work for their money. i'm afraid blacks do not feel this
2006-10-29 02:29:31 · answer #5 · answered by CHEROKEEMAN2 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I say only give it to the ones that were actually slaves. If they have died then they get nothing.
2006-10-26 19:30:48 · answer #6 · answered by Trollhair 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YES, but those that enslaved them are dead. except for the church and other organizatons,
2006-10-26 19:37:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋