Thoughts on white people having to pay slavery reparations?

Poll - Total Votes: 96

Yes, they should- it's only fair, and an equalizer

No, that makes no sense and is stupid asf

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bugeye · 26-30, F

Im against it. First of all nobody elses bad deeds should be held against you. Just because your great great grandparents might have had slaves doesnt mean you should pay for it. Vice versa if ever i wrong someone its up to me to make it up to that person. Not their distant relatives.

Second its been known to backfire when a black decendant of a slave owner has to pay back a white decendant of a slave. This really messes up some sjw's who forget interacial couples exist.

Third and finally its difficult to move forward as a society when were to busy dwelling in the past. Make the future better.

Graylight · 51-55, F

@bugeye Your family, let's say, once own 20% of Wyoming. In your family's name, on your deed. but that changed when oil barons (or hunters or developers or....) came to town. They changed the laws and managed to make it impossible for your family to keep their land.

Now, decades and decades later, that land still rightfully belongs to you. You have every right to stake a claim for 20% of Wyoming's open land. But no big deal, right, because what's lost is lost. Who knows what your family might've done with that land. Sold it off yourselves, had it stolen again, made it fallow and unusable...

But you still have a right to the benefits of your family having owned that land and you have a right to be compensated for what you didn't gain by having that land. Unless you don't. Unless we say hey, let's bygones be bygones. Doesn't matter who owns the lands and its rights and its zoning - everyone's sure to benefit, right?

This is about similar land rights for some. For others it's the lost benefit of legal protection, civil rights, the ability to pursue a life of liberty, freedom and happiness. We handicapped and entire race and then blamed them for not winning the competition.

Ynotisay · M

@Graylight In that example, the oil barons and developers won the battle. Just like homo sapiens beat Neanderthals. Life is fluid. Laws change. People move forward. Right NOW there's issues on the table that could greatly impact people. Reparations would serve no practical purpose. The wealth gap would continue. Services would continue to falter. Opportunities won't magically come in to play. Investments and legal actions NOW would make a difference. So it comes down to living in the past or the future.

Graylight · 51-55, F

@Ynotisay I'd leave that to practiced experts to decide. Not popular opinion.

Ynotisay · M

@Graylight Right. Which is why reparations haven't taken place. And won't in a way where money goes to individuals. At least on a federal level. Won't happen. Because it's counter-productive.