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Reparations

sparkling water

Posted 3:00 pm, 04/24/2019

How bout reparations for descendants of folks whose statues have recently been torn down??

HereToOffend

Posted 2:54 pm, 04/24/2019

Add reparations for Asians as well. The CA railroad wouldn't have been built had it not been for Asian slaves. I could be part African and my ancestors were probably slaves, I need reparations too. Good luck figuring out how much to give me. While we're at it, how much is enough and how black do you have to be? Does being more black increase my payout?

sparkling water

Posted 2:38 pm, 04/24/2019

I’m sure there are a great number of slave descendants who have bucked the odds.
I’m equally sure there are a great number of slave owner descendants who are poor.

Osmosis

Posted 2:25 pm, 04/24/2019

hangsleft

Posted 2:23 pm, 04/24/2019

I've not expressed an opinion one way or the other, but I could see why their descendants would ask.

If your great great grandfather was a farmer, the chances your great grandfather was a farmer, then your grandfather, and so on. The size of the farm may change and the techniques used but the title remains.

If your great great grandfather was a slave, the chances your great grandfather was a servant, then your grandfather was a farm hand, and your dad may have worked in a factory, then you might finish high school.

We are typically a product of our ancestors.

sparkling water

Posted 1:48 pm, 04/24/2019

Hangy, what percentage of your current income would you be willing to give to satisfy the reparations issue?

sparkling water

Posted 1:45 pm, 04/24/2019

The idea that skavery’s repercussions are contemporary responsibility.

Hillary is a murderer

Posted 1:44 pm, 04/24/2019

The only reason that Respirations are even being discussed by the thousands of Democrat candidates for President is because the left is losing the black votes to Trump.

hangsleft

Posted 1:42 pm, 04/24/2019

What's nonsense?

sparkling water

Posted 1:41 pm, 04/24/2019

Nonsense

hangsleft

Posted 1:40 pm, 04/24/2019

People love to say...well they aren't slaves now and I didn't do anything. Well the treatment then had a knock on effect.

https://www.quora.co...e-US-today

https://atlantablackstar.co...-people/2/

sparkling water

Posted 1:38 pm, 04/24/2019

I’ve never believed it to be right.

Had we lived at the time, we both might have supported it.

hangsleft

Posted 1:36 pm, 04/24/2019

So you admit what was done to these people was not right. Good Start.

sparkling water

Posted 1:35 pm, 04/24/2019

Legal does not equal right, however.

sparkling water

Posted 1:35 pm, 04/24/2019

I think it was at the time.

hangsleft

Posted 1:33 pm, 04/24/2019

Do you think taking people from their homes, kidnapping them, was legal?

hangsleft

Posted 1:33 pm, 04/24/2019

So you believe if something is legal then it is OK?

sparkling water

Posted 1:30 pm, 04/24/2019

Wasn’t it legal at the time?

hangsleft

Posted 1:20 pm, 04/24/2019

If you knowingly buy stolen property are you not as guilty as the thief?

So you think it is OK to own a person because well you didn't take them?

I'm trying to understand why it matters who sold the people.

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