Why do some white people think blacks feel they are owed something and hold slavery against whites??

Question

Has a black person actually said this? Where is this idea coming from? Deep seeded guilt?

Answer 1

Actually someone heard 1 black person say it and now it's a major hiding place for nothing more than deep seated racism. 99.99% of everyone you hear make that statement NEVER heard a black person actually say it.

Answer 2

It's ignorant to say that just because a few blacks think white people or the government owes them something, that all blacks agree. My family's roots are in Jamaica and my generation was the first to be born in the US and my family didn't move here till the 1970s, but even if my family had been here during slavery times I still wouldn't feel like whites owed me anything. And things that are being proposed to make up for slavery aren't only being proposed by blacks so who knows, maybe it is a guilt thing for some people...

Answer 3

Because some black people do feel that way. I personally don't but I can not speak for everyone. The truth to the matter is that some people may be owed something.
With the younger generations now, the affect is not as direct as it was with the ancestors closer to the times of slavery, segregation, and pre-civil rights.
It is kinda true, that mostly everyone has an equal opportunity now to make something of themselves, and be able to gain just as much as a white person. But it goes a little bit deeper than that.
Slaves were punished for learning to read, or doing anything which might better themselves, it was instilled in them that all they needed to do was work to stay alive and take care of their family. That is what has been passed down. Education is not important...money is. Blacks were raised to think they were less than whites....so over time, it became true to them. They were raised and treated like animals, and if you treat people as if they are low class, disruptive, animals, that is what they will believe they are, and most likely become.
Many black people think because of that, we are "cursed" for life. Blacks were freed from slavery, but were essentially homeless, foodless, just completly like babies. They were promised 40acres and a mule, which many never received. Many of us feel we are owed something, for the obvious disadvantages we are born with. Its not impossible to overcome the disadvantages, but they are definetly there.

Answer 4

yes, plenty of black people have said they expect whites to make up for everything that was done to them (meaning their ancestors many generations ago) in the past.

i feel no guilt whatsoever because i never personally enslaved anyone and not one of the black people i know has ever personally been enslaved by anyone. where i'm from they don't actually get treated any differently from any other person. they go to the same schools, live in the same neighborhoods, eat in the same restaurants, get paid the same wages for the same jobs, etc etc.

i must admit i do get annoyed by anyone who thinks they're more special and deserve more rights than any other person based solely their race or ethnicity. whether black or white (green, purple or polka dotted... you get the idea), that kind of thinking is just wrong and very dangerous.

in case you're wondering, not as if it matters, since you seem to think all white people should or do feel guilty for something they haven't done, i have friends of every race. we're all just people and pink on the inside. i wish everyone would just get over it already. it's old news.

Answer 5

I paintings at a center college in a city the place whites are the minority and truthfully ninety% of the non white pupils do no longer even comprehend that racism against white human beings is achieveable?! provided that i'm white and can't dream of attempting to open the subject up for communicate - i think i'm going to easily initiate pulling the race card too.. There are greater toddlers than i will count quantity who blatantly disrespect white college workers and are angels to all black group? clarify that

Answer 6

Reparations for slavery is a proposal in the United States for the federal government to pay reparations, in various forms, to slave descendants for the suffering and unpaid labor of their ancestors. There is also a newer movement to secure reparations, particularly from Western, ex-colonial powers, for Africa and African nations. In 2001, at a UN-sponsored World Conference against Racism, African nations demanded a clear apology for the slavery from the former slave-trading countries, but with no success.

Answer 7

Pilgrims gathered their freedom from the British, and now the US and Britain are allies. The black people gathered their freedom from the whites. It's stupid to hold slavery against the whites, because it was a historical mistake. That is why we learn history.

Answer 8

I'm thinking it's deep seeded guilt, because like you I have no idea where this is coming from... I don't have conversations about this stuff with people I know, I only hear about this stuff from white people

Answer 9

I don't know i just go wit da flow... maybe because we neva got that 40 acres and a mule. LOL You can't really say that blavks have said that because that's just stupid. who in their right mind would say what ever they have they haven't worked hard for. I don't want any body just givin me stuff.......but ya'll don'y know bout dat! du ya! Any one who answers true to this question that blacks feel that someone owes them something then they are very revengeful. I can't really explain but somebody out de feel me

Answer 10

It is a cultural thing. it is really bad actually. Here in Venezuela we kind of have something similar with lower class people, that feel that the government needs to give them houses and food free just because they don't have it and they won't earn it.......