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re: Descendants of enslaved who built Missouri university want over $70 billion
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:29 pm to 4cubbies
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:29 pm to 4cubbies
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Maybe you should try to find someone to enslave you.
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Then you can get luxuries like some food and clothes, maybe.
I think his point is that he works and pays for his own food and clothes. He's not looking for handouts because his ancestors were treated horrifically
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Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:30 pm to Corso
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I think his point is that he works and pays for his own food and clothes. He's not looking for handouts because his ancestors were treated horrifically
It read more like he doesn't like the life he created for himself so the descendants of the people who were kidnapped and treated like property should just suck it up like he's doing.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:34 pm to djmed
I agree. Anyone that worked on that university as a slave should be paid. Nursing Home will get it, but oh well. A friend of mine is the Attorney General. He did both undergrad and law school there. I wonder how he sees this.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:35 pm to 4cubbies
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Why get so worked up?
worked up? i think all the reparation stuff is stupid BS. TBH the descendants should be thankful that they are descendants of the slaves who made it to America...5% of the slave trade actually made it here. Africa is a hell hole.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:37 pm to Fun Bunch
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"hahahahahah", "No"
The end
fify
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:39 pm to 4cubbies
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and treated like property should just suck it up like he's doing.
That's exactly what these fricking leeches should be doing, just like the rest of us. I'm not asking for shite based on my ancestors being indentured servants. They can join the rest of us and work for it.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:46 pm to moneyg
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:48 pm to 4cubbies
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descendants of the people who were kidnapped and treated like property should just suck it up like he's doing.
Exactly
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:49 pm to djmed
It’s not a civil rights movement. It’s just Grifterpalooza. Always was.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:59 pm to Azkiger
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lavery, History, Memory, and Reconciliation Project (SHMRP.)"
Yay! More word salad acronyms! More importantly - an entirely new class of Alphabet People!
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:06 pm to djmed
My parents didn't pay me to cut the grass when I was growing up. Can someone calculate $10/cutting over 45 years plus interest? And recommend a good reparations attorney in South Louisiana?
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:08 pm to Privateer 2007
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In addition, apparently they'd have invested every single penny, and not withdrawn anything to this day.
They had to purchase the slaves, and feed/house/care for them.
If they are looking for an accurate picture of the expenses (which I know they are not) then this has to be included.
That should knock the figure down to zero.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:09 pm to VoxDawg
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"Enslaved" is as linguistically retarded as saying "THE Ohio State University."
Not really. The story is absurd enough without worrying about trivial linguistic preferences.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:19 pm to djmed
St. Louis University should just ignore them.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:21 pm to sugar71
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sugar71
I've never owned a slave. You've never been one. I owe you nothing
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:24 pm to djmed
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Descendants of the enslaved Black people who built a university in Missouri calculated that they were owed up to $74 billion in unpaid labor.
But did they factor in room and board lol
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:28 pm to VoxDawg
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Everyone wants to get outraged at the sale of slaves here, but none of the "activists" ask where the traders got the slaves, in the first place. All this Black History, and not a one of them has watched the first 30 minutes of Roots, apparently.
Yup. The ships picking up the slaves being sold by their chiefs wouldn't leave the shore, they knew they would be butchered.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:29 pm to djmed
Lololololololol
Revenue per year: $269M
Lawsuit: $70B
Lololololololol
Revenue per year: $269M
Lawsuit: $70B
Lololololololol
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:38 pm to 4cubbies
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Slave" dehumanizes the individuals who were kidnapped from their homelands to become property in this country. Referring to people who were enslaved as "enslaved people/enslaved individuals" acknowledges that they were actually human beings who treated horrifically.
Why does this bother you?
ETA: A main reason Reconstruction failed is because poor whites couldn't tolerate the idea of being equal to formerly enslaved people. Poor whites wanted to feel like they weren't the bottom of society. They wanted to feel better than black people. Looks like things haven't changed much since Reconstruction.
Maybe so, DURING RECONSTRUCTION! We are many generations removed from that time and mindset. Trying to apply that logic today is ridiculous.
Giving money to someone who wasn't affected by slavery 200 years ago does zero to change anything.
It actually harms them. Welfare proves this. People need to look forward, not backwards. Blacks need to take responsibility and fix their culture instead of blaming their problems on others.
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