Posted on 05/19/2017 11:54:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If your very FATHER raped someone or murdered them, you do not get arrested and punished for his crime. This idea is ridiculous.
The idea that being “held back” keeps people from achieving for generations is a MYTH. Proven so by many who were tortured beyond belief in Hitler’s Germany, came here and worked hard and made good lives for themselves and their offspring.
It’s not like you can dig up the people who bought you nor can you dig up your very own ancestors, of the tribes you originate from, and sue them for reperations.
How come you don’t go to the Hague and sue them as well?
I guess by now provenance is an issue so you want to play professional victim and continue tell everyone you are inferior by circumstance and by God you will hold onto your contrived excuse for failure.
And yet today’s imigrants beat your ass all day long and thrive economically and they sure don’t commit the number of crimes your community engages in.
Nor are they killing each other and constituting the vast majority of murders, which so happen to be black on black crimes...
How romantic....
The strongest people reduced to gimmefreeschitters.
What a joke.
I reject the premise as well.
The "rich" must pay the poor in perpetuity through wealth redistribution. A disproportionate number of poor in this model are blacks that the Left have deceived into thinking they are hopeless victims incapable of making it due to ongoing injustice. The Democrats are a very very sick bunch.
Reparations is a con job to give money to people who did squat to deserve it. There was a time when people worked for a nickle a day. Should their ancestors demand that they were underpaid and they be given the $120 a day they should have received? These New York Democrats have become con artists.
Good cant wait till MASS does this also...
I have an ancestor who was a slave in the 1600s...
Oh and she was white...
Legislators said that reparations have been paid to the Jewish victims of the Nazis, and to the families of Japanese-Americans put into internment camps during World War II. Descendants of freed slaves should also be compensated.
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I do hope the bill also states that any freed slave may apply for the “reparations” as the Jaws and Japanese-Americans did...on their own behalf...
and that the money should be back pay equal only to 19th Century pay scales...deductions made for room and board and clothing allowance...and for the wife and kiddies also...
oh and paid by their own former “masters” ...
I and my family and ancestors never owned slaves...
I refuse to pay for wages for someone elses employees...
I don’t own any cotton fields...
I have the original ancestor who was an indentured servant/farm help in 1666 in Virginia. He had to do three years of work to pay off the ‘debt’. He was 17 at the time. Oddly enough, forty years later, he’ll pass away in Virginia, owning two farms, and fairly wealthy.
Two hundred years from now some legislature will be debating reparations for white males discriminated against by affirmative action programs in education and employment in the late 1900s and early 2000s.
What goes around comes around.
My 6th great grandfather timothy McGinnis from Ulster Ireland was an indentured servant at Livingston Manor south of Rensellaer in 1720..
Timothy age 15, his father and his brothers over the age of 10 were all included, the boys until they were 21...
at age 21 now free to move about the country, Timothy went up the Mohawk River and made a lot of money as the fur trapper...
he soon owned about 26,000 acres ...
Including immigrants from Africa!
While you are studying the problem, why not trace the descendants of the BLACKS who owned slaves or bought & sold slaves. Just to ensure that they do you receive Reparations, rather they PAY reparations.
Popcorn concession in Harlem, anyone?
As if being stuck with 40 million losers isn’t payment enough. They have ruined every single city in America.
Funny thing, many slave owners took out life insurance policies on their slaves thru New York based insurance companies. Most of the companies still exist today. Let them, who were paid a premium to insure the black man, pay reparations.
My ancestors lived in New York. They can send me a check anytime...
Afraid Trump will get more black voters.
One of my family is buried a Gettysburg, my grandfather’s grandfather was a permanently disabled Vet of that war. Send me a check....
Hmmm, New Yorker here. Despite my blue eyes and white suburban upbringing I am 1/8 black. Do I pay or do I get paid?
This NYSer’s direct ancestor fought for the Union. We gave at the office.
Everybody in the world could have grievances. This is more democrat vote buying. With public money. Once any handouts started, we were on a bad path.
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