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Post by greyhair on Jan 17, 2024 21:41:07 GMT -5
In order make the guilty pay reparations for slavery, pay in confederate dollars
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Post by welder on Jan 18, 2024 9:05:48 GMT -5
What about reparations to the family members of the Union army that were killed in the war?
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 18, 2024 9:35:23 GMT -5
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Post by greyhair on Jan 18, 2024 10:44:22 GMT -5
In all seriousness, this is the worst idea ever.
1. It will continue the sense of entitlement that plagues the black population
2. It will make white people resent and dislike minorities even more, deepening the racial divide even more than it already is
3. It will punish the innocent and reward those who did not suffer
4. It will create an unbelievable, impossible administrative nightmare, trying to determine who actually descended from slaves to what degree, especially since few records were kept.
5. It won't be enough, in the view of many, and they will seek more later.
6. It fails to account for the reparations already made via all the forms of affirmative action.
7. It fails to recognize that the United States government crushed a rebellion and ended slavery at the cost of countless thousands dead and disabled.
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Post by Huntnfreak on Jan 18, 2024 11:02:01 GMT -5
In all seriousness, this is the worst idea ever. 1. It will continue the sense of entitlement that plagues the black population 2. It will make white people resent and dislike minorities even more, deepening the racial divide even more than it already is 3. It will punish the innocent and reward those who did not suffer 4. It will create an unbelievable, impossible administrative nightmare, trying to determine who actually descended from slaves to what degree, especially since few records were kept. 5. It won't be enough, in the view of many, and they will seek more later. 6. It fails to account for the reparations already made via all the forms of affirmative action. 7. It fails to recognize that the United States government crushed a rebellion and ended slavery at the cost of countless thousands dead and disabled. As Republicans…we already know this.😉 |
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Post by greyhair on Jan 18, 2024 11:19:36 GMT -5
Sorry to rant - I just thought I would lay it all out in one spot.
I visited the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. It is quite an experience. Not what I expected at all. For one thing, its pretty big. Not a 1-hour thing. Also it just tells the story in great detail. Not one whiff of blame whitey or trying to make you feel guilty.
Politically I am pretty much a centrist, but this reparations thing makes me see red.
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Post by stevein on Jan 18, 2024 12:23:15 GMT -5
So is Great Britain going to chip in and pay their share? They benefited from the slave trade too. Also if your family did not arrive in the USA until after the Emancipation proclamation will you get a break on your taxes?
If this happens will Native Americans also get reparations?
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Post by greyhair on Jan 18, 2024 12:29:07 GMT -5
Irish?
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Jan 18, 2024 12:42:08 GMT -5
I want reparations for the released diseases for the last 150 years. Spanish flu to today Covid.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 18, 2024 13:17:59 GMT -5
How about all those African tribal chiefs that sold the slaves to the slave traders?
The past is past..leave it alone
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Post by welder on Jan 18, 2024 16:14:16 GMT -5
How about all those African tribal chiefs that sold the slaves to the slave traders? The past is past..leave it alone EXACTLY!!!! |
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Post by steiny on Jan 19, 2024 8:36:03 GMT -5
Just another talking point for politicians to try and get votes, much like student loan forgiveness.
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Post by jjas on Jan 19, 2024 9:03:10 GMT -5
Just another talking point for politicians to try and get votes, much like student loan forgiveness. I find that repugnant. You take out the loans, you should pay the loans back fully and on time. Period... |
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Post by greghopper on Jan 19, 2024 9:19:55 GMT -5
Just another talking point for politicians to try and get votes, much like student loan forgiveness. I find that repugnant. You take out the loans, you should pay the loans back fully and on time. Period...  |
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Post by bill9068 on Jan 21, 2024 12:37:15 GMT -5
I saw that Levar Burton who starred in Roots had a Grandfather who fought for the confederacy, guess he owes some reparation money.
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Post by esshup on Jan 21, 2024 13:06:34 GMT -5
I'm sorry, but I believe that the reparations should only be paid to the slaves themselves, and paid by the people that were directly involved in their enslavery; .i.e. the people that captured them and sold them, the people that transported them and the people that purchased them. Not paid to descendants and non descendants and not from money that people who had nothing to do with the slave trade have contributed to society.
Why should any money that I have made be used when I and my family was not even in this country when slavery was going on? No, no, no.
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Post by deadeer on Jan 21, 2024 14:59:11 GMT -5
For sure...
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