Why the Qs @ reparations for slavery? Why do White people whine @ it & say blacks are whining @ the past?

Question

Who's even mentioned that in years, except whites? What about segregation? That happened barely 45 years ago!

Answer 1

I could understand some reparations for all the Jim Crow laws that were passed in the 30s to bring about segregation.

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

The answer goes back to slavery. White peolpe have always made up lies that were untrue about blacks. No one mention reparations but them.

Black people don't think they should get reparations, ask any "Black" person and they will ALL agree. They have learn to NEVER ever trust in "white people" their own history proves it. No white person live 400 years so that means that not all white people were slave owners. Thus the oppression of blacks was not limited to white slave owners but to Policeman, Government, society. Like 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."....."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."

Only thing blacks expect from whites or the government is far from reparations. But it's like Malcolm X said when they can use you, exploit you, when they can oppress you. Blacks should not be surprise if they lie on you, be racist and oppress them. Anytime any black person start trusting in white people means hundreds of years of oppression taught them nothing.

Answer 4

No actuallly it's the blacks that whine about what happened 45 years ago. Whites never bring that stuff up, and I'm not saying it's wrong to bring it up because it's good to know about your past...being aware of it and everything. But bringing it up over and over again gets tiresome.

Answer 5

Isn't it funny how we're all reminded of the tragic atrocities that affected White people in history but if Black people talk about the trans-atlantic slavery and their treatment in USA, it's ignored, shrugged off. How ignorant and arrogant White people can be.

Answer 6

i agree it's so annoying whites are the only ones who cares about that stuff i mean i'm 18 yrs old i don't know about that happened 45 yrs ago but it's annoying their the ones whining about something that happened so many years ago

Answer 7

Now they gonna start beating up on us again. Damn my black skin!!!!

J/K

But yeah, I don't want no 40 acres and some smelly mule. I just want to be an American...not a BLACK American!!! Not a woman!!! Just a productive member of society!!!!

Stop following me in stores...Winona Ryder is stealing!!! I'm not using drugs, thats Lindsey Lohan. I'm no slut, thats Porno Paris.

Why they didn't just ship our butts home I'll never know.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I completely agree, I don't even need reparations because I can carry my own.

Answer 10

Maybe they are the ones who feel guilty!