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re: The next step: demand reparations for all descendants of slaves.....

Posted on 8/16/17 at 10:33 am to
Posted by STEVED00
Member since May 2007
22372 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 10:33 am to
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The current outrage over Confederate statues is being used as a reminder about the tragic period of slavery in the U.S. and is just a lead up to a renewed push for reparations for all "descendants of slaves." The only way to make amends for slavery is to pay off people who have never been slaves.


Ok and then it will be over and never brought up again? At this point, it that would get us a totally clean slate then I'm all for it. Obviously it won't but that's another issue.
This post was edited on 8/16/17 at 10:34 am
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
26696 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 10:34 am to
If only we had affirmative action...

If only these statues would come down...

If only we had reparations ...
Posted by skullhawk
My house
Member since Nov 2007
23009 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 10:39 am to
While slavery is the biggest black eye on this country IMO and may very well eventually lead to its undoing, could there have been a better situation for the descendants of slaves?

Living in Africa or living in the US. Which would you choose? This is a harsh reality I rarely see acknowledged.

As far as reparations go, it's an impossible task. Let's look at the per capita disproportionate use of an entitlements and call it day, folks.
Posted by REG861
Ocelot, Iowa
Member since Oct 2011
36406 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 10:41 am to
Reparations will never happen. Never. If it's any consolation let them be angry for the rest of their lives and futilely call for reparations, because there is no way the government will ever sign off on some blank check based on ethnicity.
Posted by NCJeaux
North Shore girl in an NC world
Member since Feb 2017
177 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 10:41 am to
This is so ridiculous. So would this come out of our taxes paid or will they raise taxes to be used to pay out? Stupid.... No one today had anything to do with what happened during slavery and/or the civil war, regardless of what their ancestors owned, did or where their ancestors resided, etc.

What about those of us whose ancestors came to America after slavery and the civil war? My ancestors, from both sides, immigrated here bw 1900-1920 from Eastern Europe. They came here learned the language, worked in the coal mines in eastern PA and OH. So how am I or others with similar ancestry, responsible for any of this?

Common sense is missing here....

Posted by DawgfaninCa
San Francisco, California
Member since Sep 2012
20092 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 10:48 am to
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The next step: demand reparations for all descendants of slaves.....


Blacks have already gotten reparation in the form of Affirmative Action for 50 years.
Posted by Krokodil
Member since Dec 2013
819 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 10:52 am to
One of my grandmother's ancestors married a former slave...I'm gon' be rich!!!
Posted by pcolatiger28
Pensacola, Fl
Member since Apr 2009
1284 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 10:57 am to
Dont we already pay reparations with food stamps, government housing, Obama phones, free child care, public transportation, free college, affirmative action?
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
56276 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:03 am to
And when they're broke after a week of buying stupid shite they don't need, they'll demand more. It is never ending.
Posted by DeadHeadTiger
Red Rocks Amphitheater
Member since Jul 2017
350 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:04 am to
It's a little late for reparations, they need to nip that in the bud
Posted by NASA_ISS_Tiger
Huntsville, Al via Sulphur, LA
Member since Sep 2005
7979 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:06 am to
I've got proof that our family did not own slaves. Poor rice farmers in Mermentau from one side..and Cherokee Indian from the other side. Slaves typically took the last names of their former owners...there are no heritage AA families that have the same last name as I do. Only recently have they started having it due to marriage and adoption.
Posted by TrueTiger
Chicken's most valuable
Member since Sep 2004
67740 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:09 am to
Let's get the history erased first.

Then when they ask for reparations you can answer:

Reparations, for what?
Posted by MontyFranklyn
T-Town
Member since Jan 2012
23830 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 12:23 pm to
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So have all the generations of welfare queens, affirmative
action in hiring and college admission, ... on and on ...
More whites receive it than blacks, so how is that reparations?
Posted by HeyHeyHogsAllTheWay
Member since Feb 2017
12458 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 12:27 pm to
Is the irony that blacks in general were better off as slaves lost on everyone? No , I'm not saying that blacks should still be slaves, I am simply saying that blacks have either destroyed themselves or let themselves be destroyed since slavery ended. You read a history book and family used to be important to nearly all blacks, slaves would literally risk death to learn to read, etc etc..... Now.............
Posted by DeafJam73
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2010
18419 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 12:29 pm to
If they really want to come take anything from me or anyone else to pay off people who I don't know and will never know, they will be in for a quite a fight.
Posted by Loserman
Member since Sep 2007
21857 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 12:33 pm to
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Well I've got Native American blood on both sides of the family, so where can I sign up for my reparations?


One drop rule applied to whitey.

If you have one drop of white blood/DNA then you need to forfeit 90+ % of your industry while averting your eyes, chanting mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, and flogging yourself like a flagellant!
This post was edited on 8/16/17 at 12:38 pm
Posted by AU_Right
Member since Oct 2016
3048 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 12:33 pm to
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back to the motherland

The place Where Obama's ancestors were loading the boats?...he's mad at the wrong people.
Posted by GurleyGirl
Georgia
Member since Nov 2015
13163 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 12:33 pm to
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The next step: demand that all descendants of slaves be returned to their home nations.....


FIFY

Slavery was evil. We should erase history and make our current environment like it never happened......
Posted by 90proofprofessional
Member since Mar 2004
24445 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 12:34 pm to
quote:

I've had nothing handed down to me from my slave holding ancestors

yer privlej
Posted by LSU Patrick
Member since Jan 2009
73474 posts
Posted on 8/16/17 at 12:37 pm to
Might as well skip that step and go straight to "kill whitey"
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