Who Paid Most To "Free the Slaves"...

Damn white people and their willingness to risk life and limb for the greater good.

My family’s slaves, then turned freedmen, after the war continued living exactly as they had been, only now the white men of the family were mostly dead and our homes destroyed. So they were essentially sharecroppers and helped raise the white kids on the same land from 1865 to the 1960s in rural Mississippi, only now we were all poor. The story I have gotten is in the 1960s some civil rights activists came out and convinced them to move, which they did basically 10 miles away and have been destitute the ever since.

The south, slavery, relationships, and many other things are very complicated issues and not so “black and white”, excuse the pun.

Reparations are absurd. We lost 600,000 people, tore the country in half, with the South literally burned- and figuratively ruined. That was 150 years ago. And nobody remembers. Or cares.

We collectively leaned nothing.

So you’re telling me that in 150 years our descendants are going to remember the even out payment received by and paid by their ancestors.

I think not.

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The price for slavery was paid in blood AND treasure. Trillions if you add it up from the 1860's to now.

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Yep. I'll be damned if i pay 1 cent for this nonsense. Blacks need to thank the ones who took them out of Africa to bring them here. Also the Muslims were the ones selling African slaves to other countries. The blacks in this country need to be thankful to be in America because i just came back from a mission trip with our church in Nigeria and I kissed the ground when I got back. A very pitiful situation there. No opportunity there at all.

President Lincoln, a Republican, gave his life. That's the highest price.