Slavery Reparations

Townhall.com ^ | June 18, 2014 | Walter E. Williams

[Boogieman]

I’d be willing to vote to give them the damned reparations, IF black Americans agree to sign a contract before receiving them. This contract will state that they will not complain about past cases of slavery, racism, or discrimination anymore, or use them as an excuse for the problems in their lives, or use them as leverage to get favors in politics, jobs, and education. If they violate the contract, they get sent on a ship back to Africa and their citizenship revoked.

It would almost be worth it, wouldn’t it?

[Svartalfiar]

Can't find the big, info graphic I've seena a while ago, but here's a quick chart for your viewing pleasure:

[A CA Guy]

Slavery goes on now between Africa and the Middle East and who is giving two F’s among those trying to get a free pay day?
Where are all the over seas protests?

Where is all the so called caring for their brothers and sisters being captured by other tribes and sold into slavery today?

Take money out of this and those wanting the money would not give two F’s about ACTUAL slaves in existence today versus these people who were all born free. They are all hypocrites.

[A CA Guy]

PS, the blacks are the Caribbean today, they survived all the diseases and those they would sue are all dead.

[Gene Eric]

A game to perpetuate the Democrats’ voting base.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art.] I also agree that slave owners and slave traders should make reparations to those whom they enslaved.

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What, going back to the Paleolithic, or just the Neolithic?

[lentulusgracchus]

Richard Hofstadter treated bond labor generally (including convict and indentured labor) in his posthumously published America to 1750. One of the points he made was that British bottoms brought the American slaves to America, and that of the other flags involved, 90% were New England Yankee ships out of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island, esp. Rhode Island, ports.

Just adding a data point there for your consideration.

[Lionheartusa1]

,,,, doesn’t 50+ yrs. of affirmative action add up to anything to these people ??? Millions of people in the U.S. today came from a non slave owning heritage and carry no guilt to anyone . Get over it !!!!!

[Lionheartusa1]

,,,So we’re 10%ers ,,, now that’s a lot of guilt . . .

[DoodleDawg]

Calls for slavery reparations have returned with the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations" in The Atlantic magazine (May 21, 2014). In making his argument, Coates goes through the horrors of slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and gross racial discrimination.

In his article he isn't calling for slavery reparations. He's calling for "every reason I can think of to score some bucks" reparations.

[Syntyr]

“American Indians = example of what happens to nations that have open borders policies”

HAHHAHA Coke all over the place. Snort!!!

So True So True!!! I will borrow that!

[TheRightGuy]

as one southern farmer said to another, “if we knew back then what we know now, we’d have picked our own cotton.”

[MrsEmmaPeel]

I once had a discussion with Cherokee Tribe member. Everything was the White Man's fault. The blacks, in her opinion, deserved no special attention, but rather scorn. (She never did quantify, but I rather suspected it was to do with precedence. Cherokees and other Indian nations were first, therefore, if there is any money to be had, they are to get it first, not the blacks.)

So she quoted alarming statistics about alcoholism, unemployment, drug use, etc, etc among the Cherokee Tribe, with the expectation that someone would have to pay. I simply said: "Casinos."

She was stunned, and I repeated. "Indian nations are allowed to have casinos, generally in areas where gambling is forbidden. What happens to all that revenue?"

She hemmed and hawed - -and was extremely uncomfortable. In the end, she conceded that it was up to the tribal elders to disperse the profits from the casinos.

So I said to her: "It sounds to me that you want the white man to stamp out the corruption amongst your own tribal elders."

Pitting one group against another with the mantra: "you have to pay; it's your fault that I'm the way I am" will never create success or wealth.

[DoodleDawg]

The blacks, in her opinion, deserved no special attention, but rather scorn. (She never did quantify, but I rather suspected it was to do with precedence. Cherokees and other Indian nations were first, therefore, if there is any money to be had, they are to get it first, not the blacks.)

Or maybe it was because that since a number of Cherokee were slave owners then they'd be on the hook for reparations as well?

[IMTOFT]

“...which counties was the 95th mustered from...my in-laws have ancestors that fought in the 93rd, from Lebanon and some surrounding areas...”

His family had come over from Ireland when he was a boy and they lived in Philadelphia...family legend had it that he couldn’t find a job and joined when they first called for volunteers...he was 17-18 at the time...