I ask this question because I feel that it is time for African Americans to get their reparations but some are to stupid to embrace the opportuinuty and there are some who will embrace it. Let me know what you think a lump sum of free money or free college
2007-10-15 05:39:12 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Free College! A lump sum of money would be wasted on crap! Besides, free college means something, it is a way to improve and advance. All of those centuries Blacks weren't allow to learn how to read or learn, free college is perfect.
Most people are too uneducated to understand the long term lasting effects of the enslavement and the black mentality. Less than 50 years ago, blacks were banned from attending decent schools, and were led to think that they had no future in anything besides physical labor. Parents raised their children with the same idealisms. White slave owners passed on their plantations to their kids, some people still own that land and have lasting money from the work of black slaves. It takes more than a lifetime to turn around that kind of brainwashing. Use your brains people.
2007-10-15 06:09:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, if we were going to give some compensation for the freed slaves, we should have done it a long time ago when they were first freed. Someone had a really good idea back in the day to give every freed black man ten acres and a mule to get started off. Right now, I would say that there should be more groups that promote education for african americans. There are already plenty of scholarships and financial aid you can get if you have good grades or your parents don't have enough money, but most high school students don't know about all of this. If there were some more awareness about it, then more of these kids could go to college, get higher paying jobs, end the whole bad cycle.
2016-04-08 22:31:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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
2007-10-15 12:03:49 · answer #3 · answered by Carl 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think you should all stop asking for these hand-outs for something that happened by our ancestors of 100+ years ago to your ancestors of 100+ years ago, and get over it. You don't see the native american population throwing a hissy fit because some Spaniard came over here to THEIR country and slaughtered them and pillaged their villages, pushing them onto very small, very crappy pieces of landscape, now do you? I think, if ANYONE should complain and get hand-outs and "reparations" it should be the native americans. Yeah, slaves suffered, but think about it. If the whites hadn't brought your great-great-great-great grandparents over here, would you be here today? In a world of oppourtunity? I don't think so.
2007-10-15 06:37:50 · answer #4 · answered by Astrid A 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Free college.
2007-10-15 05:54:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lol I'm just going to say that no I don't agree with you and reparations does not mean free money it means compensation
2007-10-15 05:45:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
CASH. Ppl should decide whether they want to invest that into eduction or not themselves.
This should be extended to recent (up to 200 years backwards) colonialism as a deterrent for future oppression.
2007-10-15 08:19:55 · answer #7 · answered by St Lusakan 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No amount of money or "free college" could undo the hate that prevailed then, and still prevails now...
2007-10-15 06:56:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
There's already a such thing as free college, its called hope, and pell; use it honey.
2007-10-15 05:50:58 · answer #9 · answered by janicekristy 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Troll.No Black alive today was ever a slave,so it is a moot point and not worth debating or even offering a coment on.
2007-10-15 05:48:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋