What gives you the right!?

Question

How can anybody say what Blacks shouldn't recieve, you've never been black and were still going through slavery, just a different form of it. NO i don't wont a hand out, I wont a hand up. I grew up in the hood all my life, and things are still different from the so called white side of town than the black side of town. Go to an all black school, and an all white school and tell me if you see the difference, I do. I grew up with carmel skin, and I know how it feel to have someone look down on you because of that, and to get skipped over because a lot of whites think we wre all the same.I have a flashy car with rims and loud music, but I've work hard to get my house and everything else,and I am a grand daughter of a slave.

Answer 1

Then what is your point? Are you just ranting? You have breaks left and right the government gave you that I have no chance of obtaining. YOU have control over your life. It is you who decides if you choose to ignore those who are ignorant or if you are going to let it eat at you. I've been in an all black neighborhood and they looked like they were going to kill me. It goes both ways. Never care what anyone else thinks of you as long as you are happy and are doing the best you can. But, I am tired of hearing poor me. I didn't exactly have it easy growing up myself. Don't tell me I did cause I'm white...that is a racist assumption.

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

So "if you've worked hard to get your house and everything else," why do you feel you need a handout, or a hand up, in the form of reparations, or increased welfare, or affirmative action? Is it somehow your belief that whites were handed everything they got, and that now it's "your turn"?

Sorry, but reparations would be the absolute worst step, and would only worsen the racial issues in this country, not improve them. Why should anyone then care about inequality or changing how we treat one another? It'll be "Hey, you got your check, now we're even and go screw yourself."

And I refute the argument that this country was built by slave labor because it wasn't. If anything, it was built by immigrant labor in the industrial North, not slave labor inefficiently picking cotton in the South. And as a descendant of both immmigrants to the United States after slavery was abolished as well as people who fought to free the slaves, I don't feel as a person whose family never owned slaves that I owe reparations to slaves of someone else.

Answer 4

Slavery never ended in this here country darlin'. And the whites are slaves to their owners too in a different way...but they dont know it...shhhh...dont tell them..we wouldnt believe you anyway. Black folks know amerikkka is a scam. We white folks think the govt is all good and all loving. We could learn a lot from each other. Govt pins black vs black and they make whites think their the masters by offering them 3 mortgages and a mercedes with a 6 year lease and 2 parents working all day and kids raised by the state. White folks are mindwashed by the lying media all day. To the criminals at the highest level of govt, we are all slaves, pinned against each other.

Answer 5

I get the sense you are driving at what arguments there are for disagreeing with affirmative action.

There are a handful of them: (1) By giving minorities a boost when making hiring or promoting decisions, an employer is effectively talking down to minorities -- saying that they do not have to perform as well as the rest in order to fit in. This is analogous to giving your kid brother a 5 point lead in ping-pong. It is insulting to minorities who truly are high achievers. It also set low standards for minorities and compounds the need for affirmative action in the first place. (2) By giving minorities such a boost, we are effectively accepting subpar performance, which harms the overall product. (3) By giving minorities a boost, we are, by reciprocation, making life harder for the majority, which is construed as unfair to some. (4) By giving minorities a boost, we are effectively saying that a generation or so of hiring and promotions will somehow undue centuries of slavery, torture, and generations of subsequent racism. There is no way to measure the harm caused to blacks, so any attempt to make up for it now is futile. (5) Similarly, the argument continues to hold that since there is no way to make up for the past discrimination, then affirmative action will never solve the problem, so it would need to continue indefinitely. An indefinite boost to one race over another sounds a lot like the very racism problem in the first place.

Personally, I agree with you in a lot of ways. It is very touch-and-go for someone to argue that they are in a better position than you to speak on your behalf. Unfortunately, the very definition of government is entwined in that inherent problem -- governing by representation. I do not know of a solution, and you raise very valid points.

But do me a favor and stop pouring your hard-earned money into a flashy vehicle and electronics that decline in value faster than you could imagine. Invest your money, and ignore the glitz of rims and a soundsystem.

Answer 6

What did I have to do with your grandmother being a slave? You need to get over it. If you feel so great about your race, why do you seem so insecure?

"and were still going through slavery, just a different form of it."

That's BS. If you have picked cotton all day and been beaten severly, then I would take your "different form of it" seriously.

Answer 7

Wow, your grandparents are old. I thought my grandparents were old, being born in the 1930's. There wasn't any slavery then, everyone was dirt poor due to the stock market crash. My grandma painted hose on her legs back then, because they couldn't afford it.

But wow, to imagine grandparents over 150 years old! Wow!

Answer 8

....I kinda dont get what your getting at. However, I feel everyone should be color blind. Everyone should have to work for what they got. Racism is still around, but instead of blind hatred, it is now, I want I want I want, every race feels they are the victims now, when it isnt the race that is being victimized, it is usually some other aspect.

Answer 9

ok so whats your question..ok so your grand parents were slaves..my parents were immigrants..if someone wants a hand up then do what everyone else does,get an education and get up and out

Answer 10

****, you're right, you can have my car! grow up, take responsibility for your life, and by the way, to be the granddaughter of a slave, you would have to be about 80 years old