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Should white people set up "Individual Reparations Accounts"?

Should white people set up "Individual Reparations Accounts"?

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BrewerBob said:
That I disagree with.
I would have fully supported reparations being paid to those who were actually enslaved.
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Those people have all been dead and buried for a long time.How about if we all just treat everyone alive today with tolerance?

That wouldn't cost anyone a penny and it would make the world a better place.



"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
 
Excon said:
Should white people set up "Individual Reparations Accounts"? No.


**** Eric Michael Dyson.

There shouldn't be reparation at all over an institution that was legal.

Funny how he doesn't ask those who originally sold his kin into slavery in the first place.


If anything, the Government should be compensating the those who lost their property.
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What's that mean?
 
"I have a book coming out. I need to say something outlandish and absurd to draw attention"
 
What would be the point of paying reparations? What good would it do?
 
American said:
I don't know, who lost their property?
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So what you are telling me is that you do not understand the context of what is being spoken about.
 
shrubnose said:
Those people have all been dead and buried for a long time.How about if we all just treat everyone alive today with tolerance?

That wouldn't cost anyone a penny and it would make the world a better place.



"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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Yep. Read what I said in post#8.
 
Excon said:
So what you are telling me is that you do not understand the context of what is being spoken about.
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I'm trying to clarify, not argue with you. When you say property, do you mean slaves?
 
chuckiechan said:
I think they should start at the source. Not the buyer, but the seller. The Muslims and the Dutch who were the major players in the slave trade.

After all, we let drug users off and go after dealers so what is different here?
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That's actually a good point. Why just the buyers/users. Why not the source?
 
Mason66 said:
I was thinking more along the lines of blacks setting up account to pay monies to Civil War soldiers that fought and died to abolish slavery.

Should they do that?
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Very interesting point Mason66.

The answer is obvious, but the point is well made.
 
Shouldn't it be an Individual Reparations Arrangement?
 
DA60 said:
My family, on both sides, were entirely in England/Scotland/Canada when the slavery horror was going on.

It has got nothing whatsoever to do with me or my family.
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But the Scots were enslaved by the English! Just ask Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party; she will explain to you why it is right and proper that English taxpayers are being bled to allow the Scotch to enjoy the lifestyle that they so deserve.
 
X Factor said:
Michael Eric Dyson says whites should keep 'individual reparations account' - Washington Times

Heard about this yesterday. First off, let's be clear, nothing about this is mandatory and probably (hopefully) never could be so let's immediately concede the inevitable "but nobody who doesn't want to doesn't have to" point. That's true. This would be a personal choice. What I'm asking if if you think it's something white people should do. I'm really just curious, more than anything, what you think of the idea itself.
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No! We owe reparations to Native American Indians for committing genocide against them and stealing their lands, but Blacks need to negotiate with the African leaders that sold/bound them into slavery.

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Not sure if its been pointed out but...

- 2% of white Americans owned slaves during slavery
- tens of millions of whites became American AFTER slavery ended
- 20% of current black Americans are not descendents of slaves
- hundreds of thousands of white people died and families were destroyed to stop slavery
- Europeans participated in the Slave Trade
- black Americans owned slaves (very small group)- black Africans were the original slave traders
 
X Factor said:
Michael Eric Dyson says whites should keep 'individual reparations account' - Washington Times

Heard about this yesterday. First off, let's be clear, nothing about this is mandatory and probably (hopefully) never could be so let's immediately concede the inevitable "but nobody who doesn't want to doesn't have to" point. That's true. This would be a personal choice. What I'm asking if if you think it's something white people should do. I'm really just curious, more than anything, what you think of the idea itself.
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You have some serious white fear occuring. With the right wing in charge of the government, this is not going to happen. This would also be widely unpopular.
 
Groogrux said:
Nope. Nobody in my family ever owned slaves. Nobody in this country ever was a slave. Nobody owes black people anything.
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I guess you will have to explain the highlighted above....For you information slavery had been in existence of the American Indian for thousand of years, in fact the last known American Indian slave held died in the 20's.
 
antiquity said:
I guess you will have to explain the highlighted above....For you information slavery had been in existence of the American Indian for thousand of years, in fact the last known American Indian slave held died in the 20's.
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You know exactly what I meant. Thanks for being obtuse though.

THERE ARE NO LIVING SLAVES IN THIS COUNTRY.
 
Excon said:
Should white people set up "Individual Reparations Accounts"? No.

**** Eric Michael Dyson.

There shouldn't be reparation at all over an institution that was legal.

Funny how he doesn't ask those who originally sold his kin into slavery in the first place.

If anything, the Government should be compensating the those who lost their property.
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Actual African blacks were captured and enslaved by African blacks....sold to mostly Europeans (Dutch) and shipped to the Americans and sold to land holders mostly south of the Mason/Dixon line.
 
Groogrux said:
You know exactly what I meant. Thanks for being obtuse though.

THERE ARE NO LIVING SLAVES IN THIS COUNTRY.
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Are you sure? I believe there are indentured people here in the country today...especially in the Chinese communities and some from Central American.
 
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