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Whether if you agree or not black Americans are owed reparations

Black Americans who are descendants are owed reparations not just from slavery but for the following: Jim Crow, redlining, inhumane experiments for war, inhumane experiments that were used to further medical practices, forced sterilization burning down our towns, racist propaganda in school books, the CIA causing the crack epidemic, and lastly giving reparations to former slave masters.
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SW-User
Funny how some people on here who I assume are White think they owe black people money when that’s the U.S. government’s responsibility.
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sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@SW-User I am thinking the blacks should be repaying the Federal Government for setting them free
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@pagandad In that case then why complain when black people want reparations too for all the messed up things the U.S. government did to them? Native Americans have been given reparations for being pushed of their land, so have Japanese Americans who were forced into internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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SW-User
@sunsporter1649 Why should they? Black people were forced to work while the government did nothing.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@SW-User You trying to tell me nobody works and the government supplies everything?
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@pagandad

[quote]YOU HAVE TO WORK TO MAKE MONEY TO SURVIVE.[/quote]

Okay and? Those who got their reparations for how the U.S. government treated them still worked to survive. And the world did not end because of it. If the government treated your people like scum because of xyz for decades/ centuries, then how is it lazy to file a lawsuit and get reparations for that? Talk about getting your panties in a twist.
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@sunsporter1649 Did a slave work for money? Nope, they worked until they died or were often beaten for being slow or messing up on the job. Really, those who were made slaves were taken from their country, they didn't ask to get on a boat to go to work in foreign land.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@SW-User The slaves I owned were treated decent, and when I retired and sold the plantation I set them all free.
SW-User
@sunsporter1649 Wow, you must be 148 years old then. 🙄
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@SW-User Why don't you dig up those that owned slaves and make them pay?
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@pagandad
[quote]It is the lazy and mentally deficient who want a hand out. Stop blaming whitey for your troubles. Get off your lazy asses, study hard in school instead of fucking around and disturbing those who actually WANT to learn, work hard, don't fall into the thug world and drugs, Stop pumping out bastards as a profession, one after another, with multiple "baby daddies," so that you can live as parasites on the taxpaying public, get a job, and make something of yourselves.[/quote]

In that case, you might as well tell that to anyone in the U.S. who has received reparations from the U.S. government for violating their human rights since you think they're all lazy scum for doing the right thing and speaking up about it.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@SW-User Nothing stopping you from opening up your checkbook and giving everyone your hard earned cash
SW-User
@sunsporter1649 What's wrong with the government giving away reparations? Those who pushed native Americans off their lands didn't pay native Americans, they're dead and gone the government did that job. So what's the matter?
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@SW-User So dig up those folks and force them to pay
SW-User
@sunsporter1649 Still what's the matter? I mean, if the same thing happened to your people, their towns were bombed by their government or they were sent to internment camps in the country they stayed in because they were now considered a threat, you would want reparations for that.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@SW-User Like I said, dig them up and make them pay
SW-User
@sunsporter1649 Still, why is it a bother to you? Unless you just hate certain people filing for lawsuits because of human rights violations the U.S. government has done against them.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@SW-User So dig up those folks and have them file the lawsuits
SW-User
@sunsporter1649 That's the government's job to pay back so.. Get offended all you want. The government has done some heinous crimes to certain races in the past, it's its responsibility to repay for damages, don't like it oh well.
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@sunsporter1649 Those who had ancestors who were slaves can do that, and that's what they've been doing. So why don't you stop being such a snowflake and calm down.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@SW-User Nothing stopping you from opening up your checkbook and writing out a check to everyone
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@sunsporter1649 Gee, I guess modern day Native Americans had to dig up the graves of their ancestors to file reparations huh? Lol, get over it dude.