re: Slave Reparations from Georgetown University

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No, I didn't miss that. Racism exists and it's bad. It exists with all peoples, white, black, Asian. So how would you go about putting a monetary figure on that? If institutional racism exists and is a product of white people, for the purpose of bettering white people, then why is it that Asian households have the highest median income of all the races in America?
America has put a monetary figure on the the plight of the natives so it can't be that hard.

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Is this money coming straight from the descendants of those who owned slaves? Does the Pakistani doctor who arrived in the 1970's have to cough up his fair share?

You do realize that there could very well be a shooting war if something like this were to seriously get any traction, right?

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You're not the natives. And that monetary figure and any compensation has been virtually meaningless. Natives live in horrible conditions.

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That is clear as day.

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From the beginning, I said this was just another money grab which served no real purpose. You're not making a case that it's anything different.

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Why do you all care if Georgetown gives away its money?

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America has put a monetary figure on the the plight of the natives so it can't be that hard.

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So do you have to be a direct descendant of African slaves to get that cash, or are we just talking about African-Americans? Who gets the money?

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Why do you all care if Georgetown gives away its money?

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I don't care at all. In fact, I hope their gesture of goodwill comes back to ruin them financially. Just don't make me follow suit even though my family never owned slaves.

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Why do you all care if Georgetown gives away its money?

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It's another example of calls for reparations. Calls that have no rational explanation.

There are roughly 42 million black people in America. If we gave out 100 billion dollars in taxpayer money to all the black people in America as a form of reparations, that would be equal to a payment of roughly $2380 to each black person.

Will that help the black community and allow us to move on? Or will we have to revisit this in another 50 years when a couple more generations of black people decide they want some money for slavery? What's the purpose of any reparations?

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I don't want my black friends here to think I'm white devil.

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Like you ever had a choice.

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Why are you people always so angry?

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Probably because they are on the lowest rung of the socioeconomic in every country they inhabit.

How has slavery affected you specifically?

What have you wanted to do in life but not been able to because of slavey?

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I gives a frick about your compassion, homie. It does me no good.

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Good, because after reading the trite you clearly thought was a passionate response showing me how wrong I was you clearly don't deserve it. The only thing you care for is a money grab.

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your people have been compensated for the horrors they have endured

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The larger tribes have received some compensation, but many tribes don't even receive federal recognition. Many cannot even claim scholarships and the like because many states would require people to register as white, irish, or colored. Do to this many bloodlines were lost and those in need were never able to claim anything.

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Irish that what they endured and what blacks endured are nowhere close to being the same

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In America? Post 1910 I would agree, the previous 200 years are very similar and discounting it because of their skin color is pretty fricking insulting.

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You compassion means shite if you aren't backing it with volunteering of your time and giving a helping hand

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I can assure you I've done what I can for my hometown and my community though I could give a frick about your acceptance.

My experience growing up in a town that was 73% African American is that racism in this country goes both ways.

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It's another example of calls for reparations. Calls that have no rational explanation.

There are roughly 42 million black people in America. If we gave out 100 billion dollars in taxpayer money to all the black people in America as a form of reparations, that would be equal to a payment of roughly $2380 to each black person.

Will that help the black community and allow us to move on? Or will we have to revisit this in another 50 years when a couple more generations of black people decide they want some money for slavery? What's the purpose of any reparations?

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That's always been the crux of the issue. I mean ,I get it: African-Americans were treated like dog shite for the vast majority of this country's history, but straight up transfer payments have never helped in any of these circumstances and often make them worse, sometimes a lot worse. We've been doing round about transfer payments for fifty years now considering the percentages of African-Americans on public assistance compared to the percentages of Caucasian people. Has that helped at all?

I'd actually be perfectly fine with something like tax breaks for African-American owned businesses or targeted infrastructure development or programs designed to lay the foundations of wealth-building (like maybe more tax breaks on mortgages for African-Americans), but a straight up transfer payment would make things ten times worse.

Proving you're a descendant of slaves could be a lot trickier than most probably think, though. That's another can of worms. What if you're a descendant of a slave-owning Louisiana black Creole or a free Northerner? How does one even determine this stuff?