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The United States Owes Blacks Reparations.

We can take it out of the dues we pay the UN.
 
I need reparations just for the pain and suffering I endured reading this thread.

Cash, please.
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Ih2puo said:
So says the United Nations' Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent,

I'm glad someone has the guts to not be politically correct and tell the truth about the legacy of slavery.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-of-racial-terrorism-says-u-n-panel/#comments
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When you can tell me what I owe, to whom I owe it, and what I have done to deserve such a fine, I will write a check. Until then I will ignore any further nonsense coming from you or that 'working group of experts' at the UN.
 
Free college tuition funded with my tax dollars isn't sufficient? I had to pay for my college. And theirs, too.
 
Moon said:
We can take it out of the dues we pay the UN.
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We can tell them we are out of there and they can stick it in their ass!

Moon said:
Are Green Stamps still a thing?
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Don't think so, but I still have a bunch.

TheGoverness said:
I don't even know what the **** those are.
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Haaaaaaaa! Good for all kinds of gifts. We had Blue Chip stamps too. I got binocs, cameras, kitchen machines, etc.





Sparky2 said:
I need reparations just for the pain and suffering I endured reading this thread.

Cash, please.
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No ****! Ditto!
 
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Ih2puo said:
So says the United Nations' Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent,

I'm glad someone has the guts to not be politically correct and tell the truth about the legacy of slavery.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-of-racial-terrorism-says-u-n-panel/#comments
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We'll get on that right after Africans pay reparations for enslaving 1.5 million white Europeans and Europeans pay reparations for their ethnic and cultural genocide they carried out during the colonial era, before the U.S. was even a thing.
 
The debt of slavery was paid by the blood of our soliders on the battlefield. Maybe its them who owes somebady a thank you

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This one gets dragged up from time to time and no reasonable person ever buys it. Strangely enough though, the first time I ever heard of reparations for slavery was in an article by Charles Krauthammer in Time magazine back around 1990-91 or so. IIRC, the idea behind it was to give them money because it would be a substantive act and then could be no more excuses. But I also remember the letters column the next month and people weren't having it. We still aren't.

The answer isn't money. It's up to the individual to take a look around them and decide that "this" is not what they want for themselves and their kids. Leave the community. Move out and integrate into the rest of America and leave that s**t behind. I know, it's a conservative idea, and I'm quite the lefty for the most part. But in this case, nothing has worked and it's not going to change. Colleges do indeed tell them that nothing's their fault, it's the whites--and white people are acceptable as targets for every grievance. I came out of my undergrad more conservative than when I went in.

Anyway, everything that's been done to help the situation has resulted in many positive changes, but by now it can't be up to outsiders anymore.
 
Fishking said:
We'll get on that right after Africans pay reparations for enslaving 1.5 million white Europeans and Europeans pay reparations for their ethnic and cultural genocide they carried out during the colonial era, before the U.S. was even a thing.
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Yep.

Opopanax said:
This one gets dragged up from time to time and no reasonable person ever buys it. Strangely enough though, the first time I ever heard of reparations for slavery was in an article by Charles Krauthammer in Time magazine back around 1990-91 or so. IIRC, the idea behind it was to give them money because it would be a substantive act and then could be no more excuses. But I also remember the letters column the next month and people weren't having it. We still aren't.

The answer isn't money. It's up to the individual to take a look around them and decide that "this" is not what they want for themselves and their kids. Leave the community. Move out and integrate into the rest of America and leave that s**t behind. I know, it's a conservative idea, and I'm quite the lefty for the most part. But in this case, nothing has worked and it's not going to change. Colleges do indeed tell them that nothing's their fault, it's the whites--and white people are acceptable as targets for every grievance. I came out of my undergrad more conservative than when I went in.

Anyway, everything that's been done to help the situation has resulted in many positive changes, but by now it can't be up to outsiders anymore.
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Well, you are moving in the right direction.
 
trouble13 said:
The debt of slavery was paid by the blood of our soliders on the battlefield. Maybe its them who owes somebady a thank you

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Kinda funny/strange, isn't it? That this tremendous sacrifice is rarely, if ever in modern times, brought up... has somehow simply, conveniently been forgotten?

What, about these 400,000 Union soldiers dying, often horrible deaths, on the battlefield that slaves may be freed? When in history have fully free men, in such numbers, given their last full measure in this life and in this manner for slaves? With there being about 4 million slaves that is about one Union soldier sacrificed for every ten slaves.

Each life being priceless, how is that not more than enough payment?

Doesn't even account for the more numerous damaged lives, men maimed but still alive surviving battlefield wounds, often grievous wounds, lost hands, arms, feet, legs and many of those becoming addicted to alcohol and morphine as a result of their survival.

It should also be noted that about 75,000 black soldiers on the Union side lost their lives in this epic war to do away with American involuntary servitude.
 
MickeyW said:
Haaaaaaaa! Good for all kinds of gifts. We had Blue Chip stamps too. I got binocs, cameras, kitchen machines, etc.



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LOL I remember those. My mother was a green stamp maniac!
 
If anything they owe us reperations for the trillions we have spent on them.
 
Gaugingcatenate said:
Kinda funny/strange, isn't it? That this tremendous sacrifice is rarely, if ever in modern times, brought up... has somehow simply, conveniently been forgotten?

What, about these 400,000 Union soldiers dying, often horrible deaths, on the battlefield that slaves may be freed? When in history have fully free men, in such numbers, given their last full measure in this life and in this manner for slaves? With there being about 4 million slaves that is about one Union soldier sacrificed for every ten slaves.

Each life being priceless, how is that not more than enough payment?

Doesn't even account for the more numerous damaged lives, men maimed but still alive surviving battlefield wounds, often grievous wounds, lost hands, arms, feet, legs and many of those becoming addicted to alcohol and morphine as a result of their survival.

It should also be noted that about 75,000 black soldiers on the Union side lost their lives in this epic war to do away with American involuntary servitude.
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I do genealogy as a hobby and have discovered two g-g-g-g-grandfathers that were wounded in combat and as a result were crippled. Does that mean I can get in on some of this action? LOL
 
DamnYankee said:
I do genealogy as a hobby and have discovered two g-g-g-g-grandfathers that were wounded in combat and as a result were crippled. Does that mean I can get in on some of this action? LOL
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Thats a very good point. Maybe we should start lobbying/protesting for white reparations, eh?

My ancestors were from West Virginia, Virginia before it broke off during the Civil War, and apparently had generals on both sides of the conflict. So maybe I would/should only get half of what I am due? Ha ha ha, half of priceless would be the same amount I suppose, so its cool. I will accept a check...or electronic transfer, of course.

As a side note, I grew up with my older brother listening to singer song writer Jimmy Driftwood... who had a sweet song named, I think, Damned Yankee... Went, if I remember correctly, I'm just a damned Yankee way down in the South, I love to kiss southern bells in the mouth, I laugh when they say all damned Yankees are bad, cause nobody knows I'm a damned Yankee lad...
 
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