Posted on 04/17/2017 1:40:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I think I’ll start marking “black” on all documents from now on. LOL
This is incorrect. The civil war was not fought over slavery, it was fought over independence. The Southern states wanted to be independent of Washington D.C. and Washington D.C. was against it.
There were five Union slave states. If the war was over slavery, they could have started fighting Maryland right away. The Union army was already there. The supply lines would have been very short.
Lincoln informed Horace Greeley (Newspaper editor) in August of 1862 that he would keep slavery if it was required to "preserve the Union."
Slavery would be tolerated by the Union. Independence of Washington's control would not.
Collect your reparations from anyone who has held you in slavery.
United States of America born July 4, 1776.
Slavery abolished January December 6, 1865.
The reparations Westmoreland with the lives of 500,000 white people during the Civil War. Never in history have so many people of one race died to liberate those of another.
but it will never be enough...
what is the cost of freedom? so when it is subtracted from the total reparations, the bill has been paid... time to make it on your own.
Reparations are already being paid. Go into any government office and see what you see. Has anyone been to your local DMV? Mine are ALL staffed by minority women and they all have the attitude of a pissed off badger.
The time for this is now. Its been too long. Each slave’s descendant gets their fraction of the slave from whom they descended’s “40 acres and a mule” retroactively. Adjusted for inflation is fine WITH THE PROVISO that back taxes are also due, adjusted for inflation. So you either owe the nation a hell of a tax bill that surely exceeds your takings, or we can compromise and you can shut the hell up forever. Pay up or shut up.
Prefident
The Black Community needs more Booker T. Washingtons and fewer Jesse Jacksons.
They have been getting preferences and what can only be called worship by the media for the last 70 years. It has produced many Blacks who are wealthy but many, many more who are immoral, brutal and cruel.
Hundreds of thousands of white people fought and died to end slavery. How much money do blacks owe the families of the dead to repay them for their sacrifice?
Yep, have one great-great-grandfather in that category, fought with the Union. With interest, the reparation payment ought to be HUUUUUGE.
Don’t owe them a thin dime.
So just plain: no.
“Bogus reasoning and bogus calculations.”
HEY! I had nothing to do with this!
I knew I screwed up the 1861, should have been 1865. but I couldn’t fix it. But the 1789 is Correct. that is the Day the United States became Officially it’s own Country. From 1776 to 1789 it was just a bunch of treasonous subjects challenging the Authority of King George.
How about 40 acres and a John Deere Tractor and some courses in agronomics?
If any American citizen feels they are owed reparations for century-gone slavery, they need to take it up with:
THE BRITISH
THE DUTCH
THE AFICAN TIBAL LEADERS
THEIR MUSLIM PALS
etc... - THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT SLAVERY TO THESE SHORES.
NOT with Americans, who’s ancestors ENDED it.
“This idea is not without precedent”
yes, it is completely without precedent. No nation has paid living people for something that was done before anyone currently living took place.
What a pile of crap.
I already paid reparations to every slave owned by me, by my parents, by my grandparents, by my great-grandparents, by my great-great-grandparents, and by my great-great-great-grandparents. Not satisfied with that, I then paid reparations to the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren of those slaves.
I decided to include 40 acres and a mule, plus $1,000,000 each. That is enough. My bill is paid, and it was not expensive. Of course. There are no surviving slaves, children of slaves, etc., . . . of myself or my parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, or great-great-grandparents.
At some point, it’s time to move on. Reparations to the surviving Jews of National Socialist Germany and to their children made sense. Reparations to Jews in the year 2110 would be silly, regardless of how terrible we all agree Germany’s socialists were from 1933 to 1945. Reparations to blacks in America are many generations too late both in terms of the beneficiaries and those who would be expected to pay.
So, whites are collectively responsible for bad things, but not for good things while blacks are individually responsible for bad things but collectively responsible for good things.
I get it now.
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