Reparations for slavery?

Question

Just more people who believe they deserve something for nothing? Or do they deserve it?

Answer 1

I will pay reparations to any slave that I personally owned.

Answer 2

What a crock. No, they don't deserve it. If there were going to be reparations it should have been done in the generation after the Civil War. Why should I pay for this (through my tax dollars) when I had nothing to do with it?

NB: none of my ancestors owned slaves either.

Answer 3

First off the Jews did receive reparation and Native Americans still collect money till this very day. Do African Americans deserve reparations for slavery and everything that came from it. Hell yeah!!!

Not only were blacks taken from their own land to work till the day they died. The women were raped, forced to reproduce like cattle, so whites can rich. Blacks were experimented on in the name of science. Families were split when a mother or father were sold away from their children. ANd to this very day, African Americans have no real identity besides the one placed on us by American society, which is based on European values.

When reparations for blacks is mentioned. Were not saying that whites should come out of their pocket. But this country the United States of America is responsible for giving the thumbs up when all these things were happening. Because this country did benefit from the work of slaves.

Not to mention the 40 acres and a mule that former slaves were promised to help establish themselves after the Civil War. This would have allowed blacks to make a profit for themselves, but instead had to be subjected to whites paying them extremely low wages for many hours of hard labor. Things were so bad that even the children had to work to take care of the family, which really leaves no time for an education. And if someone did make it to college. How were they to pay to attend?

Let's also talk about laws that were set up to homes and the little businesses that blacks did manage to acquire. What did the government do to prevent this from happening absolutely nothing. Everything that's going on today is a direct result of what occurred back then.

As for compensation. Our country is in too debt right now, plus money wouldn't solve a thing. But I would suggest free college education for any African American who could honestly get accepted into college. Whites have had several hundreds of years to get ahead and established in this country, while blacks are finally within the last thirty years to get our fare share. This would level the playing field.

If anybody would take a moment to throw their attitudes out the window. They would realize that I speak the truth and everything that I have said is a fact.

Answer 4

Well if the can conduct the reparations process like they did for the Japanese Americans who were locked up during WWII then I'd support it. The people who got a check from the Govenment had to PROVE they were one of the citizens interned in the camps and there was NO survivor claims allowed, meaning children/grandchildren were not entitled to money if the entitled receipient passed away before the check was issued.

Answer 5

Yes , just more of the same wanting something for nothing. No there is not a single former slave alive today. They would be the only ones to deserve any reparations.

Answer 6

Let's face it. The only reason black people want reparations is so they can go out and buy a flat screen TV and fix up their house. How about reparations for Native Americans and Jews while we're at it? Let's give reparations to anyone that was ever mistreated.

Answer 7

Slaves do deserve reparations. Unfortunately, all the slaves and the slaveowners are long dead. Do we make the great, great, great grandchildren of slaveowners responsible for the actions of their ancestors? Are children born today to blame for what happened 200 years ago? UI don't think they are. If I am to bear the blame for what my ancestors did, then I want the credit for what they did as well, such as fighting in the war that freed the slaves. Once you factor in all the interest, my Black neighbor owes me about $900,000,000. What do you say we just call it even?

Answer 8

We MIGHT consider reparations to whatever minority is screaming for it at the moment, be it the Blacks, Native Americans, or Taxpayers, when France pays back the war debt owned to us since World War 1.

Answer 9

It's a nonsense idea being used by a group of so-called leaders to keep things stirred up in order to a) keep themselves in the limelight and b) continue to get the poor dumb masses to send them financial support.

edit:
To ndgbill: Whoa! Somebody has anger-management issues. Your rant is against Christians more than it is for slave reparations but your hatred probably makes you too blind to see this. Here’s a news flash: There are two things bringing down black society today: 1) Your so-called black leaders who only stand to profit by stirring up the racial pot as you are doing and 2) your support of non-Christian ethics that include victimizing women in your rap music, a 60% fatherless household rate, drugs being sold to you by blacks and not whites, your government dependence as demonstrated by the Katrina victims, your calling fellow blacks oreos just because they try to get an education and make something out of themselves other than a hamburger flipper (gee, isn’t it funny my own son who is a white Christian had to figure this out for himself but at least his friends were not calling him an oreo). But after reading your answer I’d have to ask you why you don’t move back to Africa if this is such a lousy nation to live in? Probably because the black descendants over there who sold blacks to American Christians all those years ago would laugh at your silly diatribe.

Answer 10

I would say no.

I would suggest that people read Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, and read up on the casualties sustained in the Civil War, before saying that no "price" was paid for slavery.

http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html