Slavery reparations could carry a $17 trillion price tag

Quote from Facebook: The next time somebody tells you to go back to Africa, tell them Africa doesn't accept stolen goods.

 

If what you have said about your heritage is correct then no, I am not.

That you cannot answer a single question presented to you shows how absolutely absurd your narrative is, and why it is supported by less than a quarter of the population and nearly half of that is by people that think they will directly benefit. Keep in mind almost 15% of Americans believe the earth is flat.

The idea of reparations as a democratic platform will do nothing but keep people like trump in power as it is that unfavorable. So good job on that front.

 

Good quote, except most slaves were bought.

 

STOLEN. The slave traders should have never been there in the first place.

 

Except they were bought, typically from relatives of tribesmen, while I agree you shouldn’t be able to buy a person — you are ignoring the wealth that their ancestors made while demanding we look at the wealth your ancestors lost and may have kept and may have given to you.

 

I think "Whites" already paid their reparations when they did all they could to ensure the atrocity of slave trade ended.

 

No, that wasn't payment of reparations. Good try.

 

Then what is? I am yet to see any advocate of reparations define it and describe how it is to be realised.

 

Read my posts in the thread entitled "Reparations for Slavery". Start at about page 8.

 

Because they were sold by other Blacks. The original wrong lies there. Whites were enslaving each other until the 18th century. are their descendants owed reparations? From whom?

 

What about people who have owners and slaves as their ancestors? Are they paying reparations to themselves?

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you said your ancestors were rapist slave masters that impregnated the black side of your family.

Also you mentioned all your family have the same slave master heritage. But you are talking as if that side of you bloodline doesn't count or is irrelevant?

 

slavery reparations will never happen, last I heard one candidate talked about 500 Billion if they did though

they should of happened when the slaves were alive, sad they did not

 

Since whatever cash is coming from the taxpayers, the answer is yes no matter how you figure it out.

 

The Black members of my family were at the complete mercy of the rapist slaveowners.

 

Don't get me wrong. It's a disgusting act and a crime against humanity.

But the truth is you are a direct bloodline to these dispicable racist, rapist slave masters as much as you are to your black heritage.

It's quite the predicament being both decendent of both villian and victim.

Do you consider yourself eligible to receiving compensation, considering half your bloodline comes from slave owner???

 

Yes, I am still entitled to compensation.
Next question.

 

Except they bought the commodities that were there. Your ancestors would probably have been slaughtered and eaten otherwise.

 

So be it.

 

So do all decendents of slave owners get compensation or is it just you?

 

So how about we just eat the Black? No reparations needed

 

yes

 

I can not comment on relations between Europeans and African Americans. I am Jewish -- not of European descent.

Once again, I am grateful to my great-grandparents for their role in Russian Revolution. Russia's peasants and Jews got most of property which belonged to nobles. That was our Reparation. In 1919, four of my great-grandmothers were building a Socialist State. Four of my great-grandfathers fought to defeat Denikin and Kolchak.

Sadly in 1930s, Communism turned Totalitarian. Stalinism had excesses, but Nazis were much much worse.

Sadly even my grandparents are gone.
RIP my grandparents.

 

I do not know what will happen in USA.

Of my great-grandmothers I remember only two. I have never seen my great-grandfathers.

I am proud of my ancestors for fighting for Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Russia's peasants and Jews got reparations in 1918. Most families in Petrograd and Moscow got a room per family. Living standards were much lower.

Totalitarianism started only in 1929.