Does any one white want to tell me why black cant get retribution for slavery.?

Question

The Jews were done wrong, the have a story to tell, we hear it every year. Now they own the media, who's going to tell our TRUE story not HIS STORY. Maybe if the truth were passed around we can bridge the gap in equality that is ever so present.

Answer 1

oh man this question is just asking for racist responses...
I mean, just look at genius's response above.

I'm sick of people saying "oh blacks don't work hard", they're "stupid and lazy" while Jews are hard working, and are the epitome of the American Dream.

people always bring up the fact that people are not directly affected by slavery, but then again, you fail to realize that slavery ended about 140 years ago, so obviously there are no black slaves alive today. However, white people still had their way, enacting laws keeping blacks from voting (with literacy tests and the Grandfather Law. disgusting.). They kept blacks from eating next to them in public until 30-40 years ago. Even though they lost their power over blacks on the plantation, they still kept it in every other aspect of American society.
It's just another step for the white man to sweep all embarrassing acts of racism of the past under the rug:
-Slavery & racism towards blacks.
-Stealing the Indians' food when the whites couldn't figure out how to make their own ("Thanks'taking'")
-Stealing the Indians' land to build railroads and civilization and killing innocent women & children in doing so.
-Immigration laws refusing many groups of peoples into the country, most recently the Asians.
-The rounding up of American citizens and seizing of all of their property... sending them to prison camps and then not returning their property once they're released. That was the racism of WWII against Americans of Japanese decent.
the list goes on and on, these were the ones off the top of my head.

Answer 2

You have to consider the fact that what happened to the Jews wasn't that long ago. The people that participated in that are the ones that have to pay retribution to those people. There's no one left alive from back when slavery happened so its too late for retribution. To charge the people of today just because way back in the day their ancestors might have participated is unfair. The Jews as a whole didn't get retribution, only Halocaust survivors. For someone to have never experienced slavery to be asking for retribution is like asking for a hand out. Its a sucky thing that happened in the times before us but do you really think retribution would make things alright for everyone?

Answer 3

There is one group that has totally been forgotten: The obese and the overweight. Not even a black slave of the past has ever endure what today's fat people are enduring, and the problem is that this is a group that isn't protected in the way racial groups and even those with sexual orientation are. Nobody has been more discriminated against, or openly insulted most of the time without retribution, and many ignore that while some people may eat more than they should, other simply were born with that predisposition and dieting is a losing battle that have cost way too many people their lives.

We need to remember that all of us are people and we all have feelings. All of us will do (or be percieved to do, in this case) something others won't approve of. But then again, those who so easily pass judgment aren't always guiltless. A little tolerance goes a long way and it has to start with the individual looking in the mirror for things to truly change and not necessarily expect others to do so.

Answer 4

Perhaps you should wrest control of the media from the Jews and tell your own story.

Many of us have grown rather weary of hearing about the poor down trodden Jews 24/7.

It would be refreshing to hear almost anything else.

Just don't use your story as an excuse to rob some other people of their homeland and practice genocide on them like is happening to the Palestinians.

As for the reparations thing. My ancestors may very well have been racists, I don't really know.

If you want to dig them up and try to get something from them for these stupid ideas they may have had be my guest.

At no time in my life have I ever done anything but defend people from racist ideas so I don't actually see how my actions make me liable for anything.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 5

The simple reason is this. I am not responsible for what happened prior to my birth. I do not "owe" any race or group of people who has been mistreated for the ignorance of my ancestors. I certainly don't owe anyone a monetary apology. Slavery was an awful thing. If you truly want retribution for the atrocities of slavery begin with YOUR ancestors who originally sold their kinsmen to the white slave traders in Africa. Perhaps they are the ones who "owe" you retribution since they are the ones who first undertook to sell humans to others. If you want to get into a historical debate on right or wrong get the "facts" straight and tell the whole story. don't just pick a place in history to start pointing the finger. One should always begin at the beginning.

Answer 6

There are many, many types of discrimination. Present day people experience discrimination with no recourse. There are mean, manipulating people across the spectrum and if that were the criteria about 80% more or less of all people would qualify for retribution. This has nothing to do with race but everything to do with being a human. You can not have experienced what I have because of your young age but I don't deserve to be paid for the negative experiences I've had any more than you. Why in the world would you expect me to pay you for what happened to our ancestors?

Answer 7

The reason is because nobody alive was affected, and nobody alive is guilty. The laws passed in the 60s were meant to bridge the gap, and those who don't want to accept it, is because it isn't economically feasable to do so. Unfortunately we have too many apologists of other groups who are buying into this bunk, which makes it harder to address the truth of the matter. (qballer1120, 5 answers down is the perfect example of what I'm talking about).

So, come on, let's get some truth going here: You guys don't give a damn about the past or about your ancestors. You guys see the past as a way to make easy money without having to work for it. Pure and simple.

Answer 8

I think a better word for what you're talking about might be 'restitution' or 'reparations.'

You mean maybe blacks should receive money as part of a massive income redistribution from the rich white majority who have made their money largely by exploiting the poor, who in the USA are mostly black? Actually I think that's a pretty damned good idea.

The reason it will never happen, as you can see from the nature of the other answers given to this question, is that white Americans have been schooled in an ideology of individualism that forces them to believe that everyone gets what he deserves, that hard work will always result in prosperity and that the evils of the past have absolutely no effect on the present. Most Americans also have no understanding of the fact that everyone in society is deeply interdependent, so that allowing vast numbers of racial minorities to be trapped in poverty undermines the whole nation.

So, even though this idea is a good one, it will never happen -- any more than George W. Bush will ever admit that he's a racist.

(But what does all this have to do with Jews and the media?? Sorry, don't get your connection there.)

Answer 9

I think retribution isn't going to correct distorted history and the media tends to glamourize human tradgedy and suffering anyway and so the only retribution to be had is to make our own documentaries if that were possible?.

There is human degredation that just cannot be re-constructed and no matter the real portrayal of suffering, historians and the media cannot capture these realities. Even survivors of Natzi second world war who tell their experiences of suffering are often dictated as to what they should say for the camera and most tend to be descendents of Hitler's and Heimler's regime, who share some amount of empathy for these rulers because some of them had very good lives.

Not everyone has been a casualty of Hitler's regime because many had worked for him and his allies and prospered as a result and recent documentaries I had seen, they were talking about just how good their lives were. Only a handful of jewish slaves have survived into very old age and so live to tell the reality for themselves and the barbaric lives they endured.

Human suffering can be found in most places in history and the present day and the wars and bloodshed of victims of war are still happening, so is abuse in the home and violent crimes on the streets. Very few people get to tell their stories and again, because the media isn't comfortable with dealing with reality when the government doesn't want to deal with reality.

Any black person as with any white person, should be able to pass on their knowledge and experiences for the suffering they have been through. Slavery was huge in Roman times and yet there is no account written by any slave of that time to say what it was like for him or her to be shackled at the foot. Only historians like Tacitus or Horace would write about the lives of a slave and so these were secondary-source (eye-witness account) stories.

I think that justice is something that cannot be earned by merley telling of a story, you need new laws to abolish slavery in some countries that still practice it today and more true depictions in the media of what slavery is all about and the effects of this on people's lives and human dignity. The jews may own the media, but it is the audience who decide for themselves what they think and many people know that the reality of slavery isn't quite what it is painted to be.

There needs to be more education on these issues not just in schools and colleges, but in the television industry too and in books. Adults become ignorant when they don't know the facts before them and although some are duped by the impressions of tradgedy and suffering, they themselves will have to go through something similar themselves to really know what it is like to be affected by these kinds of human atrocities and crimes.

Answer 10

Why should blacks get ANY retribution? They are not the only slaves. Slavery has been going on since the beginning of time. Whites enslaving whites, blacks enslaving blacks, blacks enslaving whites. This country is just the only one where there has been an unscrupulous lawyer trying to get money for nothing. The real issue that needs to be addressed is judicial reform and frivolous lawsuits. When you order a coffee from McDonalds, you EXPECT it to be hot!! Don't try to sue because it is!! Blacks getting retribution for slavery is the same as me getting a check because my ancestors lost their farms to the English when they took over Scotland!! It is irrelevant, and just another case of someone too lazy to work, and wanting society to bear the burden of financing every whim of a shiftless lot who want to live out of the mailbox.

Answer 11

Because you were not a slave and I did not do that to you....that's why. That happened long ago by both of our ancestors. It's long been over. Time to deal with today and what is going on today, not years ago. God put all of us here and he loves us all equally. Black, white, asian, mexican, not matter. Quit looking at the color of skin. It's what's inside that counts. Everyone in the world needs to do this. We are all human. We should treat each other as such. I am sorry that slavery went on, but there is nothing you or I can do to change that fact. So live for today.