Other than "white guilt" what does this accomplish. To the best of my knowledge we have spent 19 trillion on LBJ's War on Poverty and poverty still exits, All we have accomplished is creating generations dependent on government hand outs. Obviously the only thing reparations will accomplish is buying the black vote. Where is Galt's Gulch and when is the plane leaving?
I love the story about LA spending some 600 million on homeless benefits only to find that the number of homeless has increased. DUH !! The more they spend, the more people will choose homelessness to get the benefits.
Want to get rid of homelessness, get rid of the benefits
These socially altruistic looters are great at subsidizing the homeless while at the same time taxing the productive. And they are dumbfoundedly stunned that there is increased homelessness and reduced production.
One would think that they are either STUPID, or they want this result. Maybe they want everyone who is NOT in the elite to be homeless and completely dependent on the fools who actually go out and work and feed them. Definitely makes me want to go galt
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I got into a discussion about this on another board, and I just had to paste it in here, in increasing order of ridiculousness...
1. What if a black person had slaves on one side of his family but not the other? Does he get half a reparation?
2. If his wife’s family immigrated in the 20th century, do they get a quarter reparation?
3. What if the man is a quarter AfAm and the wife is half and did descend from slaves? Ok, so now they get 5/16 reparation? If I as a white person had slave owners in half of my family who owned the man’s ancestors, is it now… I lose track… 5/32 reparations for the man and 1/16 for the wife… AUUGH!
4. Ok, let’s try one more. Suppose I, as a white person, have one parent whose parents came from Europe in 1880 (thus are clean), but the other had some slave owners on his mother’s side, but the whites on his father’s side lived in the north, or didn’t own slaves, and perhaps there were mulattoes on his mother’s side, and some owned slaves and some didn’t (There were black slave owners and white slaves, people don't realize that)… so I would pay nothing on my father’s side, but maybe 31/64 on my mother’s… but of course it’s possible that her great-great-grandfather owned slaves but her great-great-grandmother didn’t marry him until after 1865, which makes it now 61/128, ok now I’m just making up these numbers, but you get the idea.
Okay, I tell you what:
[sarcasm mode="on" level="high"] We'll give a black citizen reparations IF they can prove that they are directly descended from a slave, but it must be divided equally among all living descendants of said slave. But subtracted from the total amount will be the difference in living standards between that citizen's living standard and that which he would have had were his ancestors NOT brought over and was therefore born in socialist Zimbabwe and living on $1 per day. While we're at it, let's just give our "stolen" Texas and California back to Mexico, on the condition that they turn around and give it back to Spain, and Spain give it back to the Aztecs, and they give it back to the Mayans... And of course we'll give the Dakota Indians back South Dakota, if they give it to the tribe THEY took it from, and they give it to the tribe THEY took it from... [/sarcasm]
servo75, your bullet points #1 and #4 bring to mind the deliberate hidden history of free blacks owning slaves of their own. Reference "Black Slave Owners - Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860" By Larry Koger
It's an interesting and eye opening read. I wonder how "reparations" for that get sorted out.
I completely agree. How far back do we have to find the original "owner" of the land to provide proper reparations. Same thing applies to Israel/Palestine dispute over the land. There is always somebody else before the last one. And, at some point the records become suspect. So....everybody just get over it and try to make things better TODAY.
Those who believe in Keynsianism would see an opportunity here. With the big money to go to ex-slaves, descendants, dependents, agents, carpet-baggers, imitators, new sun-tanned migrants, on top of sorting out the statistics, the DNA tests and development of skin color tests (ADL and FDA approved), the payments to lawyers would exceed all the above - there would be a massive stimulus to the economy. This beats digging holes and filling them up again.
I'm still waiting for someone to announce their operation of a working time machine. Otherwise, how are we going to correct a condition which hasn't existed (outside of Democratic policies) for >150 years?
In all seriousness: unless you were personally a slave, there are zero reparations due to you. Unless you were personally a slave owner, there are zero punishments due to you. This whole issue is so repulsive and devoid of any rational basis it makes my head spin.
So does that mean that the descendants of Jefferson should have to pay for HIS slaves? What about the slaves that didnt want to leave the plantationa even after being freed?
details, details. I dare say you are missing the point of reparations. I think the real purpose is to forcibly give goodies made by an unprotected class of producers to a worthless non-producing protected class- and to have this forcibly done by the elite class
Only if one ascribes to the ludicrous notion that a person owns and is responsible for the acts of one's parents/forbears. One of the great things inherent in the notion of America was a fresh start - that one would leave behind everything else and start anew. This would have our Founders rolling over in their graves...
How on earth would one decide how many generations to go back to establish this "liability". Maybe back to the 1500's? Go back far enough and you could completely bankrupt the people living today, except of course for the protected groups
The real thing it does is establish a completely arbitrary way for those in power to punish anyone they want for things they haven't ever done or have part in. That's one of the reasons it is so dangerous.
Would that include everyone who willingly assists the IRS and any paid public servant who has not acted to repeal the 16th amendment? Everyone who is paid to maintain the secret of tax slavery of all productive Americans?
Nonsense. It was a long time ago, and they are all dead by now anyway. What happened in the past is done and should be chalked up to past crimes. If you give money to blacks, how about taxing the germans to pay the jews reparations, or tax current russians for the people stalin killed in Russia and Ukraine, or tax china for all the people Mao killed during the great leap .backwards.
How about taxing current citizens for the indiscretions of our own government in creating the great depression. My grandmother suffered from that, so I should get reparations
The fact that they are all dead is the point Solver was making, term. The people that have owned slaves under his statement is zero by definition. Looters do treat us like their slaves though.
I think the argument might be that even though the actual slaveholders are dead, perhaps some part of their fortunes were left to people who are still alive, and should be clawed back.
In any event, there is no justification at all for a 150 year statute of limitations.
Irrelevant to solver's post. He only included those proven to have owned slaves, not people who may have had ancestors who owned slaves. Fortunes? The only "fortunes" left after 1865 was in the hands of northern manufacturers for whom the war was fought and carpetbaggers who looted any white person still living and productive in the south after all their assets had been destroyed or stolen by Sherman's soldiers. So I guess they could try to get reparations from the banking cartel in NYC. They have deep pockets for the lawyers to pick. Clearly (to me) no one living should pay a dime to these lazy, looting scum for reparations or for anything else they haven't earned through actual production in the real world.
My point was that you punish the people that actually committed the crime, not innocent people generations later that have blonde hair or lite skin or ten fingers or other social “justice” identity nonsense.
So the problem now is who would pay to dig up all the bodies buried in the ground or dig up the ashes from the ones cremated. There just arent any more slaveholders or slaves around.
I agree with Solver. Unless the people came from outside of the US no one has owned slaves in this country for more than 150 years. It is highly unlikely that any living or recently deceased resident of the us owned a slave of any type. Thus Solvers comment makes perfect sense.
Does just picking cotton qualify someone as a slave.? Many young girls are enslaved by pimps and traffickers but they don’t likely pick cotton. Just saying , if you are being technical . Some have said, if you have people vote for food They are ensl@ved.
All ordinary human taxpayers are more enslaved today and more due reparations from the feds (and their bankster puppeteers) than any person whose claim is that his ancestors were slaves. Let everyone keep what they earn from production. That is the thing that is moral and rational.
Those people should be paying damages to those they enslaved because they are actual victims in reality, not looters pretending they would have been better off if they had been born in Africa. A large number of these reparation-seeking looters would never have been born at all since they ancestors would have died as infants and there would not have been any descendants to be looters.
Remember the quickest resignation in the history of a public official for sexual abuse Eric Schneiderman May 2018. Weeks after NXVIM arrests occured. What was he accused of? Update: Three hours after the publication of this story, Schneiderman resigned from his position. “While these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office, they will effectively prevent me from leading the office’s work at this critical time,” he said in a statement. “I therefore resign my office, effective at the close of business on May 8, 2018.” Many credible abuse claims this one is on topic. When Schneiderman was violent, he often made sexual demands. “He was obsessed with having a threesome, and said it was my job to find a woman,” she says. “He said he’d have nothing to look forward to if I didn’t, and would hit me until I agreed.” (She had no intention of having a threesome.) She recalls, “Sometimes, he’d tell me to call him Master, and he’d slap me until I did.” Selvaratnam, who was born in Sri Lanka, has dark skin, and she recalls that “he started calling me his ‘brown slave’ and demanding that I repeat that I was ‘his property.’ ”
But I was questioning the judgement that criminalized a lifestyle that was the norm at the time.
There were good and bad owners, like in all facets of life. I never condoned it but I am not criminalizing owners because they lived their lives as it was customary at the time.
This revisionist bend that is so widespread in our times is throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
There is a trend to judge people's lives, history, customs and everything else under the sun in the past, as dictated by CURRENT perceptions and PC norms.
Statues are being destroyed, schools' names changed, heroic historical acts and events put in a different perspective because it "offends" some people.
History can't be changed. A nation is what her history made her. It can't be eradicated because it strips the nation of her soul.
I never said anything about going back well over a hundred year in American history. What I wrote was suppose to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the whole farce.
Maybe I should have written, “All those individuals ALIVE TODAY who are proven to have owned slaves IN THE U.S. should be made to pay!”
I’m guessing that number is around zero.
Only twisted minds would make the dead pay by punishing the living.
I'll bet they'd have a hard time proving it! Apologies if I stepped on anyone. It really sinks my ship, when idiots like that group in DC open the mouths.
I think (hope) that @Solver is being sarcastic, in that no one alive today could have owned slaves, and those are the only ones you COULD theoretically require reparations from.
My grandparents fled the Holocaust in the 1930s. Until their dying day they received reparation checks from the German government. What I'd point out is a very important difference that people leave out. Those were payments made directly to actual victims of the Holocaust, they weren't blanket payments to all German Jews, or all Jews in general.
Consider the fact that had there not been slavery, then none of those who would have had parents who were slaves would have been born and those those asking for reparations today, would never have existed. In a way the reparations would be for having to live their lives rather than having never existed. Likely most other living humans would not have ever existed. The past must have happened for the present to exist.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. If the estimated number of slaves brought into the colonies was 350K (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave...) and the Union lost 360K lives in reuniting the country and freeing them (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/sc..., then I'd say that each freed slave family should send a thank you note to each union family that lost lives (including many from my home county that died defending Cemetery Ridge @ Gettysburg), honor their descendants for persevering, count their blessings, and shut the F up.
Except that by the time of the Civil War, there may have been many more slaves in the U.S. than had been brought into the Colonies. --However, it is not right that the innocent should be made to pay for the sins of the guilty.
When will i get reparations for these scumbag democrats using up my Social Security to buy votes and I have to work till 66.5 before I get SS. I never owned a damn slave and no one in my family ever did......In fact my Father was an indentured servant in England when he was an apprentice. I have copies of his papers of indentured servitude. When will I get my reparations????
So, they're going to get testimony from an author exploiting skin color and an actor doing the same. Both have benefited enormously from living in the U.S. and neither as far as I can tell have the slightest experience in being a slave.
The original slaves were forced unwillingly from Africa to the Americas. Maybe any payments to the descendants demanding reparations should include free willing or unwilling repatriation to Africa and then from there they can willingly decide what to do next. Think of the benefits for those repatriated descendants! They will no longer have to put up with "continuing discrimination" or "the social effects of slavery and segregation" because they will be living in virtually all black countries with all black leadership! There will be no cause to worry about such things as "economic issues are the root cause of many critical issues in the African-American community today" because they will be completely free to do whatever they wish for their own economic benefit in an entire continent of people just like themselves!
This is a bunch of crap! It's the New Jim Crow trying to place a tax or fee on millions of innocent people just for being born white and pay an unearned benefit for being born black. Restating the quote "economic issues are the root cause of many critical issues in the African-American community today" simply means the race baiters and poverty pimps haven't found a way to loot enough so this is a way to loot more. Hell, "economic issues" are the root cause of the critical issue that I don't have a huge yacht and a private jet, too!
I like the idea of offering free transportation to the places from where they were extracted. I bet none of the blacks would even want that as "reparation". They just want goodies.
Want reparations? You win an all expenses paid trip to the border of Uganda and the Kongo. Sorry, there are no vaccines for Ebola available. Have a fun (but short) time in the land of your forefathers.
Great idea. I would love to get rid of anyone who says we should give reparations. Send the people who are proposing it too. Land would be cheap there, and there are natural resources. Perhaps the leftists could make something of it.
Probably Not Real Black Americans but Surely, Black congressmen in our own government who will somehow get the kickbacks from all those goodies they steel from US!
So people are proposing reparations to victims of a practice that ended 150 years ago?--Can they produce one single individual who was made a slave?--Since both the perpetrators and the victims are long dead, why do they keep it up?
This is too much, so the rest of US citizens have to pay for this Slavery Reparations. The damn dem's will do anything to make over the USA in there own image and philosophy screw the Constitution. I don't necessarily like the white supremacists but the First Amendment permits them to believe what they want. This is to put the blame on the current Caucasian population. This is past history but they can't seem to let it go. They want to take down every statue of our founding fathers' because they were slave owners. Dem's just want to rape and pillage this country!
the largest slave owner pre-civil war was a black man in the south...owned his own plantation...plus they need to get the money back from those who sold them into slavery in Africa....and today there are more whites in slavery in Africa than slaves ever sold to the U.S.
Everyone who is a slave or has been one in their lifetime line up on the left and all slave owners line up on the right. Let those two groups work out what should be done. Don't forget to include the Africans who were in the business of kidnapping Africans and selling them to the slave traders. They owe reparations to those they harmed. There is no one alive that owes reparations and no one who is reparations.
Well, if they want reparations then they'd have to start with the descendants from the country one is descendant from that sold or allowed your descendants to be slaves. Next go after the descendants of the Muslim Slave Hunters, then the descendants of the Shipping Companies that took your descendants to a country to serve as a slave. Then, a descendant of all those descendants would first go after the Last country to abolish slavery and descending from that point to the first to abolish slavery.
OH, WAIT!...scratch the above because slavery still exist today! In Africa, the Middle East, In China and many Islands...in fact...Every Conscious Being and those that could become so...is still a slave of their own Governments!
If they want to talk about reparations, how about reimbursing my family for the theft of property committed by the Government and the slaves themselves when they freed them? I know that this would be controversial but it is just as reasonable as what they are asking for.
This has been something on the slow burner for decades. Many colleges are not requiring students to pay a fee to support reparations to African American students-- Georgetown University comes to mind.
I don't know how I feel about this in light of knowing a great deal about my family tree. I know one ancestor tried to free his slaves long before the war but they refused to go, so my ancestor left his property to the slaves in his will. I know of another member of the family line, a woman with three small children who was left widowed and penniless at the end of the civil war. Her land was taken from her, then she walked the children through the mountains across two states in winter till she reached Maryland, Her and her children, almost dead from starvation, begged for mercy. Her oldest son, 10 years of age became an indentured slave to a Maryland farm owner. It's heart-wrenching: children becoming slaves to keep from starving. As I looked into my family history I would say I found quite a bit of reparation already. None-the-less... I went to school with kids whose parents couldn't use the same drinking fountain as I did. The anger, the blowback...of course they want reparation. Symbolically, the idea has value. I certainly consider my dignity a matter of high value. I don't think any monetary amount the government can offer would replace what was lost, but let them give it a shot, what the hell. They certainly have wasted plenty of my money on 'ideas' that have no value at all.
Those 'leftist loosies' better be careful. Is there a statute of limitations on this? Our country was only 54-60 years old when a lot of folks freed their slaves and came to Texas. Baby steps! They can't even agree on impeaching our innocent President! They better think about their next election.
Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest. Do it! Go back 6 generations and try to blame me for what they did! Are you considering that some freed their slaves in 1830? You will be researching something that took place more than 189 years ago.
They will likely do about as much thorough, fact based, unbiased research as they did when they declared that...bad man is making the next ice age, bad man is making the globe warm, bad man made climate change.
If they really want to be historically accurate we would need to go back probably to paleolithic times to encompass the history for reparations which would mean genetically everyone alive at some point on a genetic basis lol
Want to get rid of homelessness, get rid of the benefits
1. What if a black person had slaves on one side of his family but not the other? Does he get half a reparation?
2. If his wife’s family immigrated in the 20th century, do they get a quarter reparation?
3. What if the man is a quarter AfAm and the wife is half and did descend from slaves? Ok, so now they get 5/16 reparation? If I as a white person had slave owners in half of my family who owned the man’s ancestors, is it now… I lose track… 5/32 reparations for the man and 1/16 for the wife… AUUGH!
4. Ok, let’s try one more. Suppose I, as a white person, have one parent whose parents came from Europe in 1880 (thus are clean), but the other had some slave owners on his mother’s side, but the whites on his father’s side lived in the north, or didn’t own slaves, and perhaps there were mulattoes on his mother’s side, and some owned slaves and some didn’t (There were black slave owners and white slaves, people don't realize that)… so I would pay nothing on my father’s side, but maybe 31/64 on my mother’s… but of course it’s possible that her great-great-grandfather owned slaves but her great-great-grandmother didn’t marry him until after 1865, which makes it now 61/128, ok now I’m just making up these numbers, but you get the idea.
Okay, I tell you what:
[sarcasm mode="on" level="high"]
We'll give a black citizen reparations IF they can prove that they are directly descended from a slave, but it must be divided equally among all living descendants of said slave. But subtracted from the total amount will be the difference in living standards between that citizen's living standard and that which he would have had were his ancestors NOT brought over and was therefore born in socialist Zimbabwe and living on $1 per day.
While we're at it, let's just give our "stolen" Texas and California back to Mexico, on the condition that they turn around and give it back to Spain, and Spain give it back to the Aztecs, and they give it back to the Mayans... And of course we'll give the Dakota Indians back South Dakota, if they give it to the tribe THEY took it from, and they give it to the tribe THEY took it from...
[/sarcasm]
It's an interesting and eye opening read. I wonder how "reparations" for that get sorted out.
So....everybody just get over it and try to make things better TODAY.
This beats digging holes and filling them up again.
In all seriousness: unless you were personally a slave, there are zero reparations due to you. Unless you were personally a slave owner, there are zero punishments due to you. This whole issue is so repulsive and devoid of any rational basis it makes my head spin.
The real thing it does is establish a completely arbitrary way for those in power to punish anyone they want for things they haven't ever done or have part in. That's one of the reasons it is so dangerous.
Everyone who is paid to maintain the secret of tax slavery of all productive Americans?
How about taxing current citizens for the indiscretions of our own government in creating the great depression. My grandmother suffered from that, so I should get reparations
In any event, there is no justification at all for a 150 year statute of limitations.
Fortunes? The only "fortunes" left after 1865 was in the hands of northern manufacturers for whom the war was fought and carpetbaggers who looted any white person still living and productive in the south after all their assets had been destroyed or stolen by Sherman's soldiers. So I guess they could try to get reparations from the banking cartel in NYC. They have deep pockets for the lawyers to pick. Clearly (to me) no one living should pay a dime to these lazy, looting scum for reparations or for anything else they haven't earned through actual production in the real world.
My forebears created the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
Does that exempt me?
Define the word evil.
An abstract definition is: "To plot and plan against another person".
Sounds to me lile the reparations movement is inherently evil.
They only care about looking like victims so that they can justify stealing.
I have family members who play that game and the end always justifies the means.
If not, you need some serious remedy to straighten your thinking.
How will they decide who should pay? Who will be eligible for reparations?
Will the "Committee" include slave traders in Africa who were instrumental in facilitating the practice?
Those who owned slaves are deceased now. So will their descendants be made to pay, even though they have nothing to do with it?
It is a newly concocted milking tool for the left and the looters.
Just saying , if you are being technical .
Some have said, if you have people vote for food
They are ensl@ved.
https://nypost.com/2019/04/01/nxivm-m...
Weeks after NXVIM arrests occured.
What was he accused of?
Update: Three hours after the publication of this story, Schneiderman resigned from his position. “While these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office, they will effectively prevent me from leading the office’s work at this critical time,” he said in a statement. “I therefore resign my office, effective at the close of business on May 8, 2018.”
Many credible abuse claims this one is on topic.
When Schneiderman was violent, he often made sexual demands. “He was obsessed with having a threesome, and said it was my job to find a woman,” she says. “He said he’d have nothing to look forward to if I didn’t, and would hit me until I agreed.” (She had no intention of having a threesome.) She recalls, “Sometimes, he’d tell me to call him Master, and he’d slap me until I did.” Selvaratnam, who was born in Sri Lanka, has dark skin, and she recalls that “he started calling me his ‘brown slave’ and demanding that I repeat that I was ‘his property.’ ”
Have you ever owned a slave?
Social justice is a whole other animal.
This is not to say this left won’t try.
But I was questioning the judgement that criminalized a lifestyle that was the norm at the time.
There were good and bad owners, like in all facets of life. I never condoned it but I am not criminalizing owners because they lived their lives as it was customary at the time.
This revisionist bend that is so widespread in our times is throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
There is a trend to judge people's lives, history, customs and everything else under the sun in the past, as dictated by CURRENT perceptions and PC norms.
Statues are being destroyed, schools' names changed, heroic historical acts and events put in a different perspective because it "offends" some people.
History can't be changed. A nation is what her history made her. It can't be eradicated because it strips the nation of her soul.
Sorry, I will never agree with that.
Maybe I should have written,
“All those individuals ALIVE TODAY who are proven to have owned slaves IN THE U.S. should be made to pay!”
I’m guessing that number is around zero.
Only twisted minds would make the dead pay by punishing the living.
My grandparents fled the Holocaust in the 1930s. Until their dying day they received reparation checks from the German government. What I'd point out is a very important difference that people leave out. Those were payments made directly to actual victims of the Holocaust, they weren't blanket payments to all German Jews, or all Jews in general.
In a way the reparations would be for having to live their lives rather than having never existed.
Likely most other living humans would not have ever existed.
The past must have happened for the present to exist.
--However, it is not right that the innocent should be made to pay for the sins of the guilty.
southern institution, any reparations should be made from the Confederate treasury in Confederate money.
The original slaves were forced unwillingly from Africa to the Americas. Maybe any payments to the descendants demanding reparations should include free willing or unwilling repatriation to Africa and then from there they can willingly decide what to do next. Think of the benefits for those repatriated descendants! They will no longer have to put up with "continuing discrimination" or "the social effects of slavery and segregation" because they will be living in virtually all black countries with all black leadership! There will be no cause to worry about such things as "economic issues are the root cause of many critical issues in the African-American community today" because they will be completely free to do whatever they wish for their own economic benefit in an entire continent of people just like themselves!
This is a bunch of crap! It's the New Jim Crow trying to place a tax or fee on millions of innocent people just for being born white and pay an unearned benefit for being born black. Restating the quote "economic issues are the root cause of many critical issues in the African-American community today" simply means the race baiters and poverty pimps haven't found a way to loot enough so this is a way to loot more. Hell, "economic issues" are the root cause of the critical issue that I don't have a huge yacht and a private jet, too!
There is no one alive that owes reparations and no one who is reparations.
Then, a descendant of all those descendants would first go after the Last country to abolish slavery and descending from that point to the first to abolish slavery.
OH, WAIT!...scratch the above because slavery still exist today! In Africa, the Middle East, In China and many Islands...in fact...Every Conscious Being and those that could become so...is still a slave of their own Governments!
Now, What will you do?
Here are a recently discovered Muslims holding a Slave: https://explainlife.com/muslim-immigr...
I don't know how I feel about this in light of knowing a great deal about my family tree. I know one ancestor tried to free his slaves long before the war but they refused to go, so my ancestor left his property to the slaves in his will. I know of another member of the family line, a woman with three small children who was left widowed and penniless at the end of the civil war. Her land was taken from her, then she walked the children through the mountains across two states in winter till she reached Maryland, Her and her children, almost dead from starvation, begged for mercy. Her oldest son, 10 years of age became an indentured slave to a Maryland farm owner. It's heart-wrenching: children becoming slaves to keep from starving. As I looked into my family history I would say I found quite a bit of reparation already.
None-the-less... I went to school with kids whose parents couldn't use the same drinking fountain as I did. The anger, the blowback...of course they want reparation. Symbolically, the idea has value. I certainly consider my dignity a matter of high value. I don't think any monetary amount the government can offer would replace what was lost, but let them give it a shot, what the hell. They certainly have wasted plenty of my money on 'ideas' that have no value at all.
to encompass the history for reparations which would mean genetically everyone alive at some point on a genetic basis lol