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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badminton · 61-69, MVIP

Yes, I'm for reparations, but not in the form of cash. Rather, reparations should be in the form of free job training and job placement, free education to the college-university level, free lifetime medical care, including mental health care and drug/alcohol rehab. These services would pay for themselves very soon in reduced crime and social problems. I would gladly pay taxes for that.

SW-User

@badminton and how would that extra coddling of your negroes beat a 14th amendment challenge.

Please tell me you are no older than 10

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LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@badminton I like that. That makes sense. It would directly undo the damage that has been done.

badminton · 61-69, MVIP

@SW-User I think we should stop coddling corporations, Wall Street swindlers, corrupt defense contractors and billionaires with huge bail-outs, subsides and tax-breaks. As my mother used to say, "Feed the needy, not the greedy."

I want my taxes to be used for Domestic Improvements; Education, healthcare, job training and placement.

Where there is huge inequality of wealth there is going to be destructive social upheaval and violence. I want to live in a country that works for ALL the people, not just a handful of greedy billionaires.

SW-User

@badminton How many cliches did you manage to put in that bilge?

600,000 Americans died to free your negroes that we have to build expensive prisons for. I think that counts as more than reparations

badminton · 61-69, MVIP

@SW-User History lesson: Africans did not come to America for a vacation. They were forcibly brought here against their will and enslaved. They were treated with depraved cruelty and savagery. Then there was the Civil War 1860-1864. The slave-owning Confederacy was defeated and slavery outlawed by the 13th Amendment. However, black people were discriminated against and subject to violence well into the 20th century. So yes I am for reparations (not in cash, but free healthcare, education and jobs.)

BTW - You are going to refer to African Americans as Negroes? Really?

SW-User

@badminton cough up your own money if you wantt to coddle negroes not involved in any of this. Don't come for mine or YOU WILL not like your greeting.

Thanks for the American history lesson sluggo. I'd a never known that seeing as I only have a degree in it.

Reparations yes - they've never paid us for the voyage to the much better world. I demand that + 160 years compounded interest

badminton · 61-69, MVIP

@SW-User You can vote for the candidates of your choice. I will do the same.

A little personal history: I went to Jr. High School in Oakland CA in the 1970's. I got to know lots of black kids. Guess what - they are different from each other! They are individuals with different personalities and characters. Surprise, surprise, they were human beings. NOT ALL THE SAME!

SW-User

@badminton What a moronic, condescending clown. If true you undoubtedly were shocked