How much are the 500,000 union dead (nearly all white) worth?
“How much are the 500,000 union dead (nearly all white) worth?”
And the billions in social welfare costs the past 6 decades?
My great-great grandfather never owned a slave. As a legal German immigrant to the United States in 1848, he’d never been involved in any way with slavery, until 1862. That’s when he began a four year effort to liberate the slaves at great personal risk to himself as a member of the 5th Wisconsin Infantry. Meanwhile, his wife and five children survived on the kindness of his community.
Where are my reparations? Oh, no thanks. I don’t need any. My ancestors married the mothers of their children and stayed together to raise them, teach them solid American values and see them prosper. The government didn’t have to throw billions into a Marshall Plan to make that happen.
How come the reparations crowd never talks about their African ancestors that eagerly sold their own as slaves?