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Originally Posted by Willravel
The African slave trade is one of the worst sins our country ever committed. It was a human rights violation of catastrophic scale. There's no statute of limitations on that kind of atrocity, regardless of how logistically difficult it might be to attempt reparations.
We could very easily provide way, way, way more scholarships for students that descended from slaves. We could very easily provide free job training for descendants of slaves. We could very easily not charge income taxes for descendants of slaves.
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So should the Germans make restitution to the Jews, Catholics, Communists and so on they killed during Hitler/
Should the Japanese make restitution to the Koreans?
Should the Egyptians make restitution to the Jews? You said there is no statute of limitations.
What about Spain for holding the Inquisition or for the way they treated the Indians when coming here?
This type of thinking makes no sense to me. I'm sorry, no one in my family even fucking owned slaves. Slavery was long dead by the time my German/Italian/Irish/Welsh forefathers got here and not one ever lived South or West of Ohio as far as I know.
I have tax dollars going to bail out banks that raise my fees and credit card rates, I have taxes going to pay for AIG executive bonuses (oops someone blabbed people got mad and Obama fixed that....
), I've got tax money going to help foreign countries that hate us and laughingly own our debt...... and you think we need to give more to African Americans because of slavery that we abolished some 140+ years ago??????? Are you fucking nuts?
We have an African American as president right now..... wtf higher glass ceiling is there? And people still want to say this is a racist country and we hold the black man down?
What reasoning is there for us to do more for ANY group of people over another?
Scholarships and financial aid should be totally blind to skin color or ethnic/religious/political etc backgrounds.
To give a people more simply because of a past that is OVER and done with is just creating far more problems than it will solve.
What? The white man has held down the black man in this country? We have had Supreme Court Justices, politicians, a President, governors, mayors, CEO's, and so on.
To say the white man has held them down, especially within the last 30 years, is an excuse for the way some have chosen to live. As long as there are groups allowing them that excuse there will always be some using it. Same with drug addicts, same with any group that uses excuses to live a life choice that they can get out of IF THEY FUCKING WORK HARD.
Try working in the poverty areas... I don't see oriental people claiming racism and hatred, I don't see whites doing it, I don't see Jews or pagans doing it... I see adult African Americans who do not get their way using it and doing so because they will benefit from it. IT'S BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!