The Kingstoni-Bombayan must pay!
If anyone should get reparations, it should be me.
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I am directly descended from two Civil War veterans from Iowa and Wisconsin, one was badly wounded. My family also sheltered and transported escaping slaves.
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I will accept cash only, small bills, non-sequential, and of course, tax free. I am willing to sign a hold-harmless agreement, agreeing to cease all further claims against former slave-owning families, whomever they are.
No one should pay reparations. And let’s knock off the “ancestors were slaveowners” stuff too. I know the Left likes to bring that up, so turning it against them means what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, but to me it seems like a ridiculous, senseless, and time-wasting argument. I have an ancestor who owned a few slaves in Tennessee. I would have talked to the old man about emancipating them, except he died 92 years before I was born. I don’t recall getting a dime’s worth of benefit from his having owned slaves, and neither did my other ancestors through him, who were small farmers, and by no means rich, up to my mother’s generation.
The only “reparations” that should be paid, should be paid to the BLM protestors.
Yep...to the protestors.
The “reparations” should consist of a loin cloth, a spear and a free one-way boat trip back to their mother country, Africa...never to return.
I think Oprah should be taxed at a rate of 100% of her wealth and income and all of it redistributed to “blacks” in the income level of the lowest 10 percent. Certainly her massive wealth could have only come from her own subconscious “white privilege” (thinking she’s really a white woman in a “black” body). And surely it was the white supremacists that helped raise Oprah to her elite status, because “white supremacy” still runs everything, don’t ya know. Oprah, give up all you have as “reparations”. Whatever you got only came on the backs of other blacks. /100 satire but with an hones point for the hypocrite Oprah/
Her flipp’n candidacy amounts to reparation
Very good questions. Shows how insane the idea of reparations is.
No one pays anything! EVERYONE in this country benefited from slavery. A horrible thought, but true. Everyone, including everyone who is a citizen today, without regard to color.
This obsession with race is a sign of a national psychosis, and there’s no sign of a cure.
They need to pay the descendants of Irish slaves before they pay the descendants of black slaves. The Irish were slaves first in the Americas.
When the British outlawed slavery in 1835; two years later they made provisions to pay reparations to the former slave owners for the loss of their property. Slave Compensation Act of 1837.
They finished paying off the reparations bond in 2015. No money ever went to the former slaves, only the former slave owners.
Nobody should pay reparations.
What’s often forgotten in the whole “reparations” soup:
1. Most white Americans have no ancestors that owned slaves.
2. The English introduced slavery to the colonies, and the Slave trade from Africa was almost entirely an English undertaking. The continued the promotion of slavery in North America for 160 years before the United States even existed.
3. After 160 years of English-induced slavery, the United States gained independence and embarked on a slow limiting of slavery, and ended the practice after 90 years, at the cost of (at the time) the bloodiest war in history,
4. The effort to end slavery took some 600,000 lives, including 400,000 Union soldiers, almost entirely white. Their families received almost no compensation or reparations for their losses beyond a free headstone in a cemetery far from home.
5. Young Americans are sadly completely ignorant of the above as a result of the shabby history education they receive from teachers’ unions loyal to the party of slavery, The Democratic Party, which has not offered to pay reparations.
6. So far, Neither the British government, nor the Crown has offered a single penny in reparations, nor have they been asked. NFL players at NFL games played in London are careful not to take a knee, preferring to stand, according to tradition, in honor of the flag and crown under which the slave system was created.
Before we decide who should get reparations, let’s first figure out who is currently cheating on their unemployment applications. Why can’t we do that? I know more than a few..