Should families who made a fortune from slavery be made to give it to charity?

They stole other countries long before they stole Native American land. My point is that those responsible for these type of acts are still living of the blood stained money should in some way be made to pay it back

@mrgreeen: that's s glass half empty argument. What was done was legal at the time. The glass half full argument would be that the African American descendants now live in the greatest country in the world. They can use their freedom and the very same system that enslaved 200 years ago to become educated and wealthy.

Everyone here now is here by choice as a citizen. If those opportunities are better elsewhere, no one will stop them or prevent them from returning. Lest we forget, we fight for their freedom(s) too.

Your new leader could take you back to the bad old days@Adogslife:

@mrgreeen: or so "you'd" like the world to think. however, only politicians pander to their constituents with promises undelivered for decades. in this instance, what scares both sides of the house and senate is that businessmen just don't care to pander. they hire, fire, fix and build. trump won't give two shits if the best candidate in front of him is black or white. the uproar is accountability for both the government and the citizenry.

Being white is not a convictable offense for something that happened 200 years ago just as poverty is not a credible defense for something that happened 200 years ago.

All of us benefit from better access to improved affordable education and an economy that can support employment at all levels of the labor spectrum.