The US should consider reparations to African-American descendants of slavery

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  1. Merwen

    Merwen Well-Known Member

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    If they can get it from the Morgans or Rockefellers, more power to them, but they're not getting it from me. My ancestors were just as disadvantaged, and by the same people.
     
  2. Esau

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    What was Africa like before the slavers arrived northwinds oh that's right you have no idea.

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    No they were not stop lying, you are white this you always had white privilege. Nobody buys or ever did the poor poor white guy sob story

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    Slavery happened very recently, only white nationalist like to say it happened millions of years ago, facts dear, read them
     
  3. Esau

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    You have slave genes and you're white? We highly doubt that but its moot isnt it, think. you in essence rejected that heritage then, you copped out you deserve nothing
     
  4. Esau

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    Africans didn't sell anyone, they were forced at gunpoint to sell Africans but youvwouldnt know this because I read your posts and you are the most uninformed person on pf about Africa. You think Africa is a country and that its civilizations were built by Nazi afrikkkaners , we know your documents which are written by white gaize
     
  5. theunbubba

    theunbubba Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    When Egypt pays reparation to the Jews and Russia pays back the Lend Lease.
    Otherwise UNSTFU.
     
  6. Merwen

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    The ones that have all their kids on welfare.

    "This massive, unending growth in welfare aid is not what President Johnson had in mind when he launched the War on Poverty in 1964. Johnson never intended to produce an ever-increasing system of government aid and a growing population that is dependent on the government. Instead, he actually sought to shrink the welfare state by curing causes of poverty. Rather than seeking to expand the welfare state, Johnson hoped to eliminate the future need for welfare by making the poor self-sufficient and prosperous.

    Things did not work as President Johnson planned. Since the beginning of the War on Poverty, the U.S. has spent $15.9 trillion on means-tested welfare. Instead of reducing the causes of poverty, this spending has made the problem dramatically worse. By undermining intact families and eroding the work ethic in low-income communities, the welfare state has made families less capable of supporting themselves today than they were when the War on Poverty began.

    For example:

    After adjusting for inflation, welfare spending is 13 times higher today than in 1965, when the War on Poverty started.
    The out-of-wedlock birthrate is 40 percent, and the African–American out-of-wedlock birthrate is 72 percent. When the War on Poverty began, the out-of-wedlock birthrate was 7 percent.[7]
    More than 40 million people are on food stamps. Four decades ago, only 4.3 million people were on the rolls.[8]
    As Chart 3 shows, means-tested welfare has grown faster than every other component of government over the past two decades. Welfare spending has grown more rapidly than Social Security and Medicare, education, and defense."

    http://www.heritage.org/research/re...ments-principles-of-reform-and-the-next-steps
     
  7. RiseAgainst

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    Lets wait until the US becomes a Hispanic majority and let them take care of it.

    I trust they will treat the blacks nicely. :)
     
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    northwinds Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Link please on the Africans not selling their 'cousins' into slavery. And you are correct in that the Afrikkaners built the highest functioning country in sub-Saharan Africa.......don't need a link for that obvious fact.....:applause:
     
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    Slave descendants are very lucky that their ancestors were enslaved and transported to the US instead of staying in Africa.
     
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    It is exactly what LBJ had in mind.

    "I'll have those (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)s voting Democrat for 200 years.". LBJ
     
  11. Merwen

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    IMO you may be correct in that no one buys it. It is fairly well hidden how many whites are left out of the "white privilege" thing because, not having a noticeable tint, they tend to be invisible in schools and neighborhoods and get no special help the way many deprived blacks tend to.

    The ultra wealthy tend to reach down even less to help poor whites than they do to help poor blacks. Poor whites tend to be completely ignored no matter how much they are struggling and how much they follow society's rules. Because they don't get into as much trouble, they don't get the special attention that black or white troublemakers do.
     
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    Is that what your liberal revisionist history tells you for your todays marching orders to debate with?
     
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    Absolutely agree. It's obscene to make American taxpayers pay for something that happened 400 yrs ago. Anyone in this country, regardless of color, can make a good living by educating themselves and working. That's the best thing they can do for themselves and their families instead of expecting hand-outs b/c of what happened centuries ago that no one now living had anything to do with.......
     
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    And while we're at it, let's figure out what the value of the land is of North and South America and have the European countries make reparations to the descendants of the indigenous North and South Americans that they took it from.
     
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    Okay. I have considered it. My answer is, "No."
     
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    I don't believe they owned any of the land.
     
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    Europeans were morally wrong to claim the land they certainly didn't own.

    Europeans need to get their checkbooks out, and I expect the U.N. to make a pronouncement on the matter as soon as they total up the value of the North and South American land masses.

    And by the way .. For the Brits, North America is only the tip of the iceberg.
     
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    I guess we should tell the Italians and Turks that it's time to pay up for the sins of Rome and Constantinople. I'm sure I have a few tribal ancestors in the past that were killed by them. Of course I probably also have blood in me from those conquers as well but lets not mention that. Somehow I'm sure I'm owed a few gold coins. My family has been so hurt by it, we aren't even sure it's happened. I'd call that destroying my cultural heritage.

    Well we are at it I wouldn't be surprised to find out I had some family killed by the Mongolians some way or another. They killed just about everyone at some point. I'm owed at least a horse, and bow for that.

    Of course I'm such a mutt I probably owe myself some money as well when all is said and done. One part of the heritage killing, raping, and pillaging, another part of my heritage. It's almost like I have no right to the success or sins of my ancestors, and instead should live on my own individual value. Huh... odd that idea isn't it?
     
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    Well they are just lazy and probably expect the reparations to be no less than 100k. Which most will waste on a couple expensive cars they won't be able to afford for repairs after the rest of their money is spent on bling, designer clothes and bars or casinos.

    Very few in comparison will make that kind of money last and do something big with it. Then we will still be back to square one about the white man keeping them down and they need more money to get out of the pit of debt they got themselves in.

    It's going to be a never ending story until Africans break themselves away from the liberal narrative that they are always the victim and they need us to provide for them because they are too dumb to do it themselves because the white man made them that way.
     
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    Liberals go into a mouth foaming SJW outrage and force reparations.
    The middle class pays for it.
    The Blacks do exactly what you said.
    The money ends up in the hands of ...uh oh ..."coooppoooraaattiooonnnss mannnnn".
    Rich get richer.
    Liberals ...totally unaware it ever happened.

    Hahah.

    [video=youtube;KxotH0P_1SU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxotH0P_1SU[/video]
     
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    My great-grandparents came to America from Sweden, Germany, and England about 1890-1910. That was long after slavery ended. Do I have to pay reparations?
     
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    Gaize wrote these documents?

    How in the world did granular and porous rocks write these documents? I was unaware of sentient silicon-based life-forms working as scribes. This is fantastic stuff, we can now send record-keepers to environments where normal humans are unable to perform secretarial services! Thanks again, Esau! :thumbsup:
     
  23. Esau

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    Why should Egypt pay, for what?
     
  24. Esau

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    Man up, be proactive, take responsibility, set the the right ecample, the rest hopefully follow if not then at least you go down in history as having been good and not wicked. In the judgment days

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    Short answer, yes
     
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    my bad, iPhone autocorrect sucks. White gaze.
     

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