Reparations for slavery is stupid.
Sorry Dems keep fricking dreaming. It was your damn party that wanted slavery. Stop trying to deny it.
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4meAndyou · F
Jesse Jackson and the black people, (including one college professor to whom I listened last night), who are promoting this idea state that because their ancestors were slaves, they have been socially and financially set backward by 150 and sometimes 300 years. In other words, they are saying that they, as a group, would have achieved far more success and financial equity at this point in time, if their ancestors had not been enslaved.
The college professor stated that they will have to do studies to see how the reparations would be paid. There was no mention made of the wild impracticality of locating each and every descendant of each and every slave.
There was also a notable fluffing off at the concept that a South American mother with three children, who is arriving in the United States tomorrow, is going to be told that she, and everyone else, is going to have to pay extra taxes to repay these un-located descendants of slaves, even though she has just arrived here.
The college professor stated that they will have to do studies to see how the reparations would be paid. There was no mention made of the wild impracticality of locating each and every descendant of each and every slave.
There was also a notable fluffing off at the concept that a South American mother with three children, who is arriving in the United States tomorrow, is going to be told that she, and everyone else, is going to have to pay extra taxes to repay these un-located descendants of slaves, even though she has just arrived here.
4meAndyou · F
@cherokeepatti One thing they are ignoring is that 20 acres and a mule, free, were given to each family of slaves in order to get them started in their new lives as free persons, which has or had a monetary value.
My question would be, how many times do we, as a nation, need to pay their families?
My question would be, how many times do we, as a nation, need to pay their families?
@4meAndyou whoa. 40 acres and a mule didn't really care well during reconstruction.
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Less than a year after Sherman’s order, President Andrew Johnson intervened, and ordered that the vast majority of confiscated land be returned to its former owners. This included most of land that the freedmen had settled. The Federal government dispossessed tens of thousands of black landholders. In Georgia and South Carolina, some blacks fought back, driving away former owners with guns. Federal troops sometimes evicted blacks by force. In the end only some 2,000 blacks retained land they had won and worked after the war.[/quote]
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/forty-acres-and-mule/
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Less than a year after Sherman’s order, President Andrew Johnson intervened, and ordered that the vast majority of confiscated land be returned to its former owners. This included most of land that the freedmen had settled. The Federal government dispossessed tens of thousands of black landholders. In Georgia and South Carolina, some blacks fought back, driving away former owners with guns. Federal troops sometimes evicted blacks by force. In the end only some 2,000 blacks retained land they had won and worked after the war.[/quote]
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/forty-acres-and-mule/