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Thoughts on white people having to pay slavery reparations?

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Yes, they should- it's only fair, and an equalizer
No, that makes no sense and is stupid asf
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specman · 51-55, M
Black slaves that were freed had the chance to leave country. Paid for by the US. They would be taken to Liberia a country in Africa that was founded by freed US slaves. Obviously some left. I’m not agreeing with what the oppressors did to them, however the freed slaves faced being oppressed by choice. They could have left the country paid for by the US to a country free of oppression instead some stayed by voluntary means.
You can look up Liberia on wiki to get the story.
It’s really unbelievable! I would have left the Us!

So I would have to decline payment for that reason.
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@specman Liberia was treated like a virtual colony.

You're completely ignoring Jim Crow, redlining, etc.
specman · 51-55, M
@basilfawlty89 They had the opportunity to go?
@specman You're ignoring the fact that there were native Africans already living in the area that became Liberia.

Look up "General Butt Naked" if you're interested in how events in Liberia worked out.
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
So your argument is that once they were done being worked with no human rights, it would be great if they were ethnically cleansed instead?@specman
specman · 51-55, M
@basilfawlty89 I stated what I thought already. You can twist it all you want to suit or confirm your story or whatever you’re trying to prove!
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@specman I'm not twisting anything. You're saying that black people deserved to be subject to Jim Crow and redlining, because they refused to be ethnically cleansed from the only land they've ever know and after they were nearly worked to death?
specman · 51-55, M
@basilfawlty89 twist it however you want! You’re going to anyway! I stated they had an opportunity to leave this country. For those of those born here and were slaves had a chance to leave this country who bought them already slaves . Their neighbor tribes and some times their own made them slaves to sell them. We gave them the opportunity to go to another place in Africa. Some made a choice they freely made to stay. The consequences they faced was a direct action of the choice for whatever reason they stayed. I do not feel sorry for those who freely made the choice to stay. I will tell you that me personally would not have and do not acted the way some do or did. And for your information the discrimination that they had faced were faced also by people labeled as white trash
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@specman oh horse shit. White people didn't in American history ever face discrimination on par with African Americans. You want to blame African Americans for their plight. Even the Irish and Italians didn't face full blown plantation slavery.
specman · 51-55, M
@basilfawlty89 what I stated is true.
specman · 51-55, M
@basilfawlty89 you are from South Africa I wouldn’t think that you should have a say in what American citizens are going through or what has went on
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@specman lol? So I'm not allowed an opinion? This why people get annoyed at Americans. You weigh in (and meddle) in every world affair yet get offended when a other people from another nation does.
specman · 51-55, M
@basilfawlty89 you are free to have a opinion even though your opinions don’t mean shit to me since you’re not from America
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@specman clearly it does, or you wouldn't be arguing with me. Your opinion doesn't mean shite to me, you're not African American.
specman · 51-55, M
@basilfawlty89 I just looked at where your from!
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@specman and you're white. Stay in your lane.
specman · 51-55, M
@basilfawlty89 or what?
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@specman lol so defensive. Need I remind you, as you just mentioned, that I'm in South Africa. You can't use your AR-15/penis extension on me.
specman · 51-55, M
@basilfawlty89 I don’t own a ar . I own a Mac-90.
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@specman good for you! That will show the government with their armoured cars, tanks, bombs and nuclear missiles.
specman · 51-55, M
@basilfawlty89 it will
Nitedoc · 51-55, M
@specman I own AR's, AK's and two sub guns.
specman · 51-55, M
@Nitedoc cool, I bet you have fun on range day! 😁
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@Nitedoc @specman I see the ammosexial dick measuring test is on then. Best of luck.
specman · 51-55, M
@basilfawlty89 up yours! You racist moron!
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@specman which race did discriminate against? Ammosexuals are a race now?