re: Liberal talking point for slave reparations

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And what about the white folks today who had an ancestor that was a black slave? Do the black folks with the white slave owner ancestor have to pay them?

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If you go back the 5 or 6 generations ago to the 1850's everybody has 32 or 64 direct ancestors.

Probably at least a quarter of white people whose families have been here that long have a former slave in there somewhere.

These idiots would never be able to administer such a boondoggle effectively so they will be racist and base it on what you look like.

And beyond the problem of white people being eligible for the reparations what about black people who are descended from slave traders and not from slaves? Or at least descended from both? I mean it ain't like we sent armies to Africa to capture black people

I don't think there should be reparations for slavery but we should give it a look for jim crow, segregation, black wall street, historically racist penal system, and redline housing/school zoning issues. Those are recent travesties and caused real harm because they had the wrong color skin.

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bmy

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The only fair and realistic way to address previous injustices is to prevent them from happening now.

The moment that we become concerned about historical grievances, all the world will be a victim. That is not desirable, nor is is a suitable way to craft policy.

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Slavery is what made America successful so you benefited even if your family didn't own slaves.

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That argument would be inclusive of descendents of slaves themselves, would it not?

Ultimately, here is the issue. We can not address, repair, or correct the actual lives of slaves. We can address median income differentials between their descendents and those of their countries of origin. We can assess what slavery cost them, and use that differential as premise for a settlement

Reparations to 21st century US blacks, most of whom were never enslaved or personally victimized by Jim Crow, should make up for the generations of monetary differential accounted for had they, and their families been allowed to stay in Africa.

To assess that differential let us examine the three countries serving as predominate origin of African Slaves. They were West Niger, Cameroon, and Ghana.

Niger's average per capita income is $440
Cameroon's per capita GDP is estimated at $1,700.
Ghana's average per capita income is $2,200

In the US, Black Median Household income is $36,651 (2016).

Extrapolating the differential over the last 50yrs, at ~$35K/yr, that is approximately $1,750,000.00 per Black household.

So $1.75million per household?
How much more should the US owe?

If that is the case then why not only those impacted by these laws?

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Not really, without slavery, the South would not have thrived.

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Not remotely true. Other than advantage of growing season, prior to colonization there was no predilection driving the south to agriculture and the north to industry. Slaves and profit exacerbated the southern growing season differential though. But to presuppose the US would not have eventually formed and/or the South would not have thrived sans slaves is silly.

Do we get to charge them for all the problems they have caused us?

And there were thousands.