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EDIT: POLL NOW: Should African Americans get reparations?

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A good friend of mine (who is white) married a black woman. She's a great person and drop dead gorgeous too. They have very handsome twin boys, just shy of 2 years old.
 
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
Officially nominated as the most lopsided Poll ever. 🙂

I think if "Nay" had been on the top, and thus default, position, the poll would be even more lopsided, as it is I'm willing to be that of the 14 votes currently cast for "yay", several of them were done Florida style 😉.
 
Originally posted by: Whade
No group of people today deserves reperations unless they themselves have recently been enslaved. I am in no way responsible for something that happened several generations ago.

good point
 
not that it matters but every country on the planet has had slaves of some sort and no reperations have been paid. It is a shame but its not realistic.
 
So should you also get your father's speeding tickets?

When Slaves were held it was legal, there is NO legal grounds to make slave owners pay anything.
 
no...


No...


NO!!!


My grandparents came from Poland in the 1920s - never owned slaves, was no slavery when they got here, they weren't responsible for slavery, my parents weren't responsible for slavery, I'm not responsible for slavery.
 
Originally posted by: tm37
Originally posted by: nemesismk2
Yes America should because you are all evil slave masters! 😉

ALL RIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTYYYYYYYYY THEN!😉

Well it isnt like he is being any less logical than classy.
 
Personally, I don't think reparations are the answer to anything for black people. Besides I don't want anything from anyone period. Let me rephrase that I don't want a damn thing from anyone. Whenever I fill out an application it pisses me off, when it asks what nationality you are. I always put other.

The thing with reparations is that the idea doesn't come from the ones that still live in the ghetto. It comes from the one's that went to good schools, got good jobs, those that are what some would call successful. They get an education an realize that some things can be done to change their peoples existence.

People in this country need to stop labeling each other as Asian, African, Mexican, Indian, etc......In this country we have a half-sense of identity and a half-sense of being American, our cultural identity has been defined by our surroundings. Everyone should just be American and that's it. If everyone thought of everyone else as just being American a lot of social crap would start to disappear.

Those that want to make something of themselves, for themselves and for their children won't let anything stand in their way. Let the dead repay the dead and the living deal with their social-economic issues. One thing I would say is that some of you shouldn't judge others if you have never walked into a place been denied a job because of who you are. If you can do that then judge.

Once again I said no to reparations. Reparations will not help anyone least of all black people, black people need to help themsleves. They need to find a sense of worth and put aside the past and the unending cycle of self-depreciation.
 
The only reparation should have been done after the civil war, and they should have been delivered back to their motherland.
 
Originally posted by: AmbitV
I demand reparations for having to live with all these racist white trash hicks

I guess you rather be with the, low self steem, Identity crisis, dumb ass, no class, thrash that I see in the streets of LA every day.
 
Originally posted by: carmat4
The only reparation should have been done after the civil war, and they should have been delivered back to their motherland.

WoW that is probably the nastiest thing I have ever seen on AT!

Anyhow my comment is the only person I know from Africa are about 6 White people. what would they get?
 
Originally posted by: EXman
Originally posted by: carmat4
The only reparation should have been done after the civil war, and they should have been delivered back to their motherland.

WoW that is probably the nastiest thing I have ever seen on AT!

Anyhow my comment is the only person I know from Africa are about 6 White people. what would they get?

Giving them freedom, and returning them to their place of origin. How is that mean?
 
Originally posted by: carmat4
The only reparation should have been done after the civil war, and they should have been delivered back to their motherland.
This was attempted and it was a failure. The country is called Liberia.
 
I say nay.

they was paid by being allowed to stay after they were freed from slavery, instead of being sent back to africa where they came from.
 
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