you in support of reparation payments?

seems to me just people wanting handouts and using history as a form to get it.
I think its the stupidest thing.
Just watched a Piers Morgan debate or screaming match if you wanna call it that where they were Arguing about the king of Britain having to apologize for slavery and the black women arguing for it could not answer a single question and would just rant on about nonsense and eventually when finally asked what she wants, she said reparations.
So Pierce went on to ask if Roman and Viking ancestors should have to pay him reparations also and she went on about not talking about slavery, so it confused me what the hell she wanted reparations for haha..
anyway its dumb, go get a job and stop trying to get handouts wherever you can as far as i am concerned.

thoughts?

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Midlifemale · 61-69, M

Can anyone even be able to PROVE that they are related to a slave or children of one ???
This happened a long long time ago and it has been abolished and is against the law now. it's over
It's just another way of the African American people trying to get money from the government for ridiculous reasons. What would we be paying reparations for anyway ? The people who would collect were NOT slaves and even if they are the children of or ancestors of one.....paying THEM does not in any way reward or help the slave...they're ALL DEAD for god sake.
The American people have admitted it was wrong but back then it was NOT ! It was legal back then for people and political families to own slaves and the statues that were erected to remember these great American leaders should have never been taken down.
How stupid and idiotic this all is.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Midlifemale I have felt that this is a big distraction from the slavery that is happening today. Immigrants getting work visas sponsored by some companies are being brought here and abused. I don’t know how common it is but the medical marijuana grow centers in Oklahoma have had several incidents in the news. Some of the workers at one place were not being paid. And at another place they were forced to stay on site 24-hours a day, every day of the year (obviously they aren’t going to spend money if they can’t cash a check, open a checking account or go somewhere to shop). Some of them escaped and reported their employers to the police. In both cases the workers and the owners were from China. I have heard of such things happening with domestic workers, garment factories, and other places. Wages not paid or being way underpaid or working too many hours etc. And then we have forced sexual trafficking (kidnapping) which is another type of slavery. Slavery is a huge problem all over the world today and deserves serious discussion and working towards eliminating it.

Midlifemale · 61-69, M

@cherokeepatti Amen...and I agree. The open borders that the Biden administration is allowing is causing all of this corruption.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Midlifemale many of these people who breach the border will play the system to the hilt or get involved in criminal things. Others will get taken advantage of if they meet up with the wrong people. Some of them will be trafficked. They found an 8-year old girl who had been gang-raped at the border with 57 different DNAs of semen in her. That is horrifying and heartbreaking, how does a child ever recover from that?