Do you think the United States is guilty of a crime against the African American race.?

Question

It is a fact that slavery was a part of the building of America. There has been no retribution for this crime against humanity.

Answer 1

Screaming Eagle answered this just as I would so now I don’t need to type.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

There were no laws about the"crimes against humanity" in the days of Slavery. Slavery prevailed in Africa as well, the people could have been enslaved by other tribes, or other Nations that ruled at that time. That was the era of slavery. To go back into history now and apply today's existing Law against humanity, on the descendants of our forefathers who lived in those days, I personally do not think that it makes any sense.Would someone who is well versed in Law and Ethics, consider giving us us an unbiased view on this issue?

Answer 4

Are you not concerned about all the crimes against humanity that take place TODAY, all over the world?

Let me guess: You're some liberal fu(k from the UK or other Europu$$y country looking for any way to take shots at our country. Well guess what @$$hole, slavery was 150 years ago and descendents of slaves who worked hard have made something of themselves while whiners (like you) stay in a rut with other whiners.

Answer 5

technically they did, even nonetheless the apologies did no longer justify the crimes. community human beings have been given their very own aspects of land basic as reservations, the place a great inhabitants of them stay today. playing has been legalized in those aspects, which in turn creates a great financial advance for them. as for African human beings, reperations from slavery are nonetheless being given out to this present day from countless ancestors of slaveowners. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, none of those acts can ever make up for what's been carried out interior the previous.

Answer 6

YES, YES, We should take action, against all the slave owners. But not against the Americans who fought to end slavery. We should reward them.

Oh, wait, they are all dead.

Maybe we should punish the innocent Americans who have lighter skin colors instead.

Oh, wait, what about people who are part one race and part another race, should we only punish them half as much?

Should we increase taxes on everyone in the USA to pay for this retribution?

(sic), that means sarcasm.

Think about what you are asking here. Your concept is dumb, and totally racist.

Answer 7

In reality, as much as I hate slavery, African tribes were in constant war with each other. If a tribe was captured, they were slaves.

It was the British and Dutch that tortured the Africans on the middle passage.

Admittedly, it was consumer demand that fired all of this up, but everyone is culpable.

Answer 8

The horrors of slavery didn't end with the end of slavery. Black people after the civil war were still oppressed by southern state governments until the mid 1900's. The denial of education and other access to institutions of white America, such as government, has to this day left black America in catch up mode. Lack of equal educational opportunities and access to pre- and after school care is largely responsible for the high rates of criminal activity in black neighborhoods and the high numbers of blacks in prison. It is improving but this is a process that takes decades.

Answer 9

No, more like the reverse; America WAS guilty of slavery, but now Liberal America, in the form of Affirmative Action, and welfare, and more social programs than you'd put in a protocol droid, if anything, bend over backwards to help them, whereas even now, there are more blacks in prison than in college, even with scholarships.

Answer 10

Yes, any and all of the political people who were in power duiring the tiime of slavery should be arrested and tried for those crimes