Debate questions on reparations?

Question

Im in a debate arguing against the statement "Are reparations for slavery and government fostered segregated a good idea?" and are in need of some questions to ask the other side. Any ideas??

Answer 1

The logistics of reparation alone make it impractical. Our government has better things to do than waste millions of dollars trying to set a a system of how to pay people on a sliding scale according to how enslaved their ancestors were. How could somebody prove how much they were "owed"? Slaves were regarded as property and therefore, the government didn't bother setting up a uniform record of existing slaves. Nobody alive today was a slave or a slave owner in the United States' slavery period. It's over.

BTW throughout history, all over the world, different races of people have always enslaved other races, and it's still happening today.

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

1. The Civil War was not about freeing the slaves.
Its was about economical statuses.

2. Slavery didn't end in 1865 it became illegal.
Lots of slave owners secretly kept their slaves illegally.
The last illegal slave ships entered the Americas in the 1900.

3. Natives and Jews are receiving reparations today, like they were promised so why not blacks? Name ONE nation that has gotten away with a crime like that for over 400 years?

4. Africans did not enslave, lie, brainwash, rape, murder, degrade, pillage, hate, execute, beat, oppress, torture, condition, ghettoize and invent/inflict racism on blacks. "Whites" did.

5. Europe and America gained all its economical status by
committing a crime and making it legal for over 400 years, They colonized Africa, White supremacists still exist Including the oppression that is daily inflicted on blacks and Name ONE nation that made that sort of atrocious crime legal?

~And lets not forget Jim Crow ended 40 years ago lol.

I'll take my 40 acres and a mule.
Like you promised, thank you very much.
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I doubt we'll get it anyway.

Answer 4

Its unconstitutional,
it unites the races against eachother,
it assumes all whites (even whites who opposed slavery or recently immigrated) are guilty,
it assumes all blacks (historically even those who had slaves or recently immigrated) are victims,
it does not solve the problem many blacks may feel they are facing,
its theft

Answer 5

This country has pumped, BILLIONS in to the black race to help them. Now, I think their just milking it. ( "white guilt")