I like the idea of reparations.
Hundreds of years ago there were Hale gunnies working on slave ships taking them away from their African Paradise that they lived in (Ever see those 1930s Tarzan movies as a kid?) and bringing them to the intolerant USA that didn't even have Universal Health Care or gay marriage like all civilized countries did.
So now in the era of Obama enlightenment the Hale decedents, meaning YOU, owe them for all those back wages and entitlements that their slave relatives missed out on.
“...Hundreds of years ago there were Hale gunnies working on slave ships ...”
No... on one side of the family, IF the Ancestors of Hale were on a ship, they’d have been climbing the ships’ rigging with rifles and shooting the officers on the decks of OTHER ships... with family back home dodging British bullets in the streets of Erin! Somewhere in there, there’s an Austrian component too... probably throwing rocks and sacks of burning horsecrap at members of the Hapsburg royal family at every opportunity.
On the other side, the Ancestors of Hale (”Hale-ski” Cossacks) were riding swift horses across the Steppes, using their large, curved Shaska sabers to make very precise cuts in Bolshevik anatomies and other enemies of the Czar and Czarina and all of Christendom for several centuries...
“...the Hale decedents, meaning YOU, owe them...”
Phooey [spits]. They get bupkis from me...