Should African Americans recieve raparation for slavery?

Question

Since it is a topic of a film at the Sundance Film Festival, I want to know what you guys think about the matter

Answer 1

From whom?
Which people that you know perpetrated this injustice on their fellow humans?
Should one injustice be instituted to solve another?

Answer 2

Not at this point. There should have been more done for them when the slaves were freed though. Part of the problem is, how to you put a price on human life/freedom? The government should have dealt with this back in 1865. There is no 'fair' way to pay anyone back at this point. Even Holocaust victims aren't getting reparation unless they have some sort of documented proof that they had money/valuables stolen from them or their families and that was just over 60 years ago. It's too late, the US messed up big time and there's nothing we can do about it now.

Most people are not going to want to pay for that mistake anyway. Are we all going to have to come up with detailed genealogies that prove our ancestors were not involved in the slave trade? I don't see how we can do anything.

Answer 3

Well I'm neither black nor american so I suppose it's none of my business but since you asked, No. The black americans alive today have not personally suffered at the hands of slavers. If their ancestors had not been slaves (assuming they were and didn't leave africa by choice) then if they had been born at all they would have been born to a life in Africa. Are they suggesting that would be preferable to a life in America? Maybe it would, I've never been to either place so can't comment. But is that what they want to be compensated for? A great many black africans are living in poverty below subsistance level. Maybe life for black americans is bad, but is it that bad? Really?

Secondly, whatever you might have seen watching Roots, a very large number of slaves were actually sold by their own tribal leaders to slave traders. If countries involved in slave trade should compensate them that should include africa. If the tribal leaders had not been compliant no slave trade would have existed.

Answer 4

Reparations from who. My family never owned slaves and neither did most of the families in America. That is totally ridiculous. I mean African Americans have come a long way and there are some very wealthy tax paying African Americans so they would kinda be paying themselves their own reparations. Its kind of humorous actually.

Answer 5

I think that because there are no more slave owners or slaves alive today, there shouldn't be a need for repayment. Who should pay? None of my ancestors owned slaves. Should I pay for slavery even though we didn't believe in owning people? I think they need stop all the blaming and take responsibility. A black African traded his people to the british and therefore they should be the one's who has to take the slack. Thank you.

Answer 6

Nope. There is no reason for anyone in the world to be judged for any reason except what he or she has done with what God gave them. Some of us have more gifts, some have fewer; some rise from impoverished backgrounds, some are born into great families. It doesn't matter where you came from but what you're doing now - and you can never cash in on the suffering of others. To give a Black woman some sort of "reperation" for what her great-grandparents may or may not have suffered is nonsensical; reward her for her own accomplishments and nothing more. That is the meaning of equality.

Answer 7

If the jap gained reparations for the U.S. internment camps for the period of WWII...if community individuals acquire reparations for the ecu invasion and theft of land from them...if the ecu 'Jews' have and nevertheless acquire reparations from a number of distinctive international locations, alongside with the U.S., then i do no longer see why no longer for the descendants of African slaves. The so-reported as 'Black' guy and woman nevertheless be afflicted by the outcomes of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trades, and should no longer be waiting to assimilate into American society. we've been stripped of our historical past, our historical cultures, our faith, and beneficial self-image. i'm no longer announcing we are a helpless human beings. i'm announcing that if every person else might desire to be apologized to and given land and or monies to help ideal the wrongs, then we ought to constantly be waiting to get those issues additionally. The leaders of this u . s . a . might desire to actual start up with an apology and telling the reality approximately this entire mess. to answer the 2d question, i do no longer think of England must be the only government/u . s . a . to help repatriate human beings back to Africa. although formerly repatriation starts, our human beings might desire to be arranged spiritually, financially, emotionally, socially, and bodily.

Answer 8

This would be pointless. We could look at it as the African Americans pay the relatives of the people for bringing them to America instead of starving in Africa. See pointless...

Me and the Mr. were just talking about if the South won what would America be like right now.....Scary thought.

Answer 9

We can never go back and change the past. We need to live today and into the future. IF we were to attempt to correct this problem--what about the Indians (Native Americans). There are many, many other wrongs that have been done. We can never go back and change the past. There are wrongs being done today that we cannot change.

Answer 10

Any African-American who has actually been a slave themselves should absolutely be compensated. Otherwise-QUIT THE WHINING! There is more black on black crime than any other crime in America. Clean your own house, so to speak, and stop blaming everyone and everything else for the mess.