If Slavery reparations were granted, could they deduct?

Question

Housing, food and transportation costs from the unpaid wages?
That would make it really fair right?

I am still trying to figure out how much people who want reparations are expecting to get cash wise in hand personally.

Well, we all have to pay our way, we work get paid, then we turn around and pay for our cars and food and housing, so it woudl only be fair if we were to pay for past un paid wages, then we would also charge for housing and such which the slaves did not pay for.....right?

Answer 1

We all have to pay our way? Well tell that to the US government they didn't pay their way. They stole land they never paid for, they stole free labour they never paid for. If the people who the government rob can't benefit from it why sould America? The US government committed a crime and that same government is still here today. Like all crimes the criminal should be punished. The US did not only go free they get to benefit from the expense of others.

No one expect reparations especially blacks, blacks would be a fool to expect anything from America or white. Malcolm X said.

" The white man is against brotherhood and the white man is against peace, his history proves this. No where in history has he been brotherly toward anyone. The only time he is brotherly is when he can use you, oppress you, exploit you, when you will summit to him."

"You never will get protection from the federal government. That's like, King is asking Kennedy to go to Alabama to stand in the doorway, put his body in the doorway. That's like asking the fox to protect you from the wolf. And when black -- now, the masses of black people can see this. And it is only the ***** leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the government. The government is responsible for what is happening to black people in this country. The president has power; you notice he didn't send any troops into Birmingham to protect the Negroes when the dogs were biting the Negroes. The only time he sent troops into Birmingham was when the Negroes erupted, and then the president sent troops in there, not to protect the Negroes, but to protect them white people down there from those erupting Negroes."

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

i do no longer think of that any further should be completed. i've got faith that the african people have the main suitable possibilities for success now. there are maximum of scholarships and faculties directed in the direction of in basic terms this team of people. What somewhat needs to happen is there should be a transformation in how the relatives works in our low earnings families. Many are broken up and the toddlers do no longer learn how to cost a reliable training. those that do earnings from the possibilities they have and grow to be very effective. I even have in no way felt that totally everyone could pay for what their mothers and fathers have completed. no possible hand out money to an ancestor of a slave. Handouts in no way help. in basic terms look on the community people. I lived with them for quite a few years and the worst ingredient for them are handouts. African people have lots to help them prevail. i think of the worst part of be now's a midsection classification white male. No help is given and that's ok. the reason it somewhat is okay is by way of the fact their relatives is oftentimes intact. The relatives is the beginning place for success. There are some which will prevail with a undesirable relatives, yet greater will prevail with good families.

Answer 4

I haven't heard anything about slavery reparations in a while. Is that in the news again?

If we granted reparations for the crimes of our ancestors, we would also have to include native Americans, the Irish in the early 1800's, and every other group we've done harm to. I think we need to concentrate on helping the living today, and let the dead rest in peace.

Answer 5

you are sick.

There shouldn't be any reparations, and there will not be.
Only 11 states had slaves, and only 5% of the people in those states owned slaves. Are you advocating punishing the 39 states who never had slaves? What about the 360,000 Union army soldiers who died freeing those slaves? Black people already fill our prisons and suck off the government tit and get free college tuition and other affirmative action racist crap.
Who has been brainwashing you?

Answer 6

To make it really fair, we would also have to give reparations to the ancestors of the slave owners, because the war ended their way of life and means of support. There is no end to people thinking they deserve something for nothing they were involved in.
Who really needs to be punished? Whites did not go into Africa to gather slaves, Coastal indiginous tribes in Africa had been involved in the slave trade for thousands of year previous to white involvement. How many "african-americans" have demanded reparations from the Africans who provided the whites with slaves?

Answer 7

They would have to show those here today are hurt beyond where they would be if their ancestors had never been slaves. Since they would be in Africa then, that might be hard to show.

As to the slaves themselves, they died long ago and their personal actions died with them.

And since all slave owners are also dead, who would be paying for this but people who never did the wrong?

Answer 8

I feel that it would be fair to grant reperations to anyone alive who was a slave. I feel that no deductions would be appropriate, however, as anyone in slavery was held basically in captivity, against their will. Their labor would have more than compensated their masters. I feel the cost of reperations should be entirely paid for by any living slaveholders to any living former slaves.

Answer 9

i dont think there should be reparations. sorry but that was a long time ago...an as with most any crimes the statue of limitations should have already run out. i think its stupid and waste of money-- unless someoen that was an actualy slave was still alive, then give the money to them, i guess. otherwise, i feel its a waste of har dearnd money. why do blacks think that the mone wont be coming from thier own pocket? hello- its going to be comin from tax dollars...that they pay!

Answer 10

They should expect nothing.. for nobody has been a slave who would qualify. I do believe that most are deceased now. Descendants of slaves do not count, and they would be wrong to use their ancestors for free money. I think we are all equal, we all need to work hard and earn our way through life..