Slavery Reperation - Are you for or against it?

Question

I have recently learned there is apparently an issue regarding specific actions for reparations for slavery which include the government apologizing to slave descendants for their hardships and awarding them financial and/or other compensation. What do you think about this issue? Are you for or against it?

Answer 1

Against, who is gunna pay for the research entailed to find all of the actual slave decendants and the actual slave owner decendants and the cost of tracking them down and collecting?

How about the many lives lost so they could be freed?

Answer 2

Part of me says yes and part says no. No, for several reasons.. b/c where would reparations end...not just for African Americans but all that have been treated poorly. How would it be done?...many slaves didn't keep great records (if any at all) and proving you are a slave descendant could be very difficult. (just naming a few)

I always see comments like "well I wasn't alive"..."slavery ended a long time ago" and while that is true, the poor treatment of African Americans didn't end with the 13th amendment (in 1865), especially in the south. The south found other ways....specifically with Jim Crow laws. Africans Americans fought for another 100 years before the finally received the rights that so many take for granted now.

Even with the 20th amendment in which women finally got the right to vote MANY African Americans were still being denied that right ( via poll taxes)...that was finally abolished with the 24th amendment (1964).

Those are a few of the reasons I am inclinded to say yes.

Good question and have a great Thanksgiving.

Answer 3

We are living in the age of the apology. How touchy-feely. I will gladly pay reparations to any living slave (no, that's not you Burger King employees) or anyone who can prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that pre-1860s slavery has affected them in any meaningful way. It's almost 150 years later. Get over it.

Answer 4

Against. I'd've had no problem if actual slaves and thier children had recieved some sort of reparations. Of course, that's, in part, because I'd not have been born at the time.

Answer 5

I think everyone who was a slave and is still alive should get $1 million to pay for their pain and suffering.

OK, and if you do pay descendants, what about cases where a descendant of a black slave owner is also a descendant of a slave? Or how about the slaves owned by Native Americans? Who coughs up that dough?

Answer 6

No one is going to get rewarding for anything...there is no one around who has experienced slavery and no family member to suffer grief. I don't agree with slavery one bit, but it has been around since the beginning of time and has existed in many countries and ancient cities. The only thing people get is advice: move on with your lives!!

FYI: Did you know the Irish were treated worse than the blacks when the came here? They were...if you don't believe me, read a book! There has also been enough apologizes on this topic as well...enough already.

EDIT: Tyler: My ancestors came from Germany. You shouldn't stereotype all white into the same "category". Damn, you should know better...shame on you!

Answer 7

i can;t believe this is even being discussed.the blacks were;nt the only ones treated bad in this country.what about the irish. they were treated badly as well.before the blackmen came here it was the irish who were told if your are irish do not apply.portraited as drunks and wild monkeys.they were so poor they had to live in what was called shanty towns or slums.but you don;t hear them crying about how they were treated.what about the blackmen who sold their own people into slavery.it;s the African government that should say they are sorry.their the ones who sold their own people into slavery.then what about the American indians.they were treated badly as well you don;t hear them crying.you better yourselfs you don;t continue to cry about what happened over 400 yrs ago.Slavery Reperation.if that;s the case give the irish,italians.and american indians Reperation as well.and apologize to all these people as well.wake up you stupid people who thought this one up.

Answer 8

What's your point in asking this question you ignorant *****. All you want to do is get the silly whites on their rants. Well read their answers. You succeeded, you should be proud of yourself. I hope the next time you get the job mommy and daddy got you or you get to the school of your choice because uncle made a phone call is because of white affirmative action paid for on the backs of black slaves who were worked to death by their greedy less than human white slave masters.

Answer 9

If Lincoln had not be killed it might have been addressed then because they were in the process of doing that , but too much time has passed for it to be a option. The issues that harm blacks today need to be address by those in the black community

Answer 10

I'm against it really, it might be just, but would now require an unjust practice. The unjust practice I speak of is taking of resource from a group of people and giving it to another in order to compensate for an unjust practice that the group relinquishing resources today played no active part in. It would be like me suing you because you great great grandmother killed my great great grandmother.