Should Blacks be paid slavery reparations
in the form of homelands?
theAspenbeat.com,
by
Glenn Beaton
Original Article
Posted By: Big Bopper,
1/18/2024 7:02:28 PM
Many Black activists are agitating for two things.
One, they want reparations for the enslavement of some of their ancestors centuries ago, a small fraction of which is to be paid by the people whose ancestors were the enslavers, and a large fraction of which is to be paid by people like me whose ancestors back then were raiding rival clans in the Scottish Highlands without ever setting eyes on a Black person in their entire poor, nasty, brutish and short lives.
Two, they want to reinstitute racial segregation. They want Black dorm buildings in college, Black classes, Black this and Black that,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
swarfer 1/18/2024 7:08:18 PM (No. 1639327)
85% of African American children are supported by the tax payers. Reparations have been and are being paid.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/18/2024 7:16:32 PM (No. 1639332)
Living in America IS the reparation. Period. Otherwise they are welcome to the fetid, disease ridden tropical swamps from where their ancestors came/ were brought.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/18/2024 7:18:09 PM (No. 1639335)
They weren't enslaved so they are not entitled to anything for enslavement.
As for Segregation it would be the best thing in the world.
White kids grades would go up significantly without blacks there dragging down the classes because the class has to be taught to the dumbest one there. Blacks would probably do better also as the ones who cannot behave could be dealt with without them crying discrimination. Of course it won't happen.Not in public school.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
volksford 1/18/2024 7:21:43 PM (No. 1639337)
Your relatives turned down Liberia... deal with it.
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I’d be game if we buy the land in Liberia.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Big Bopper 1/18/2024 7:25:50 PM (No. 1639342)
Read the article. They don't deserve it, but maybe it would solve some intractable problems.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Catherine 1/18/2024 7:28:13 PM (No. 1639346)
There is no legitimate argument for giving untold millions to people who were never slaves. And I honestly think that since slavery is still a thing in parts of Africa, they really should be grateful to be living here as regular Americans. No one living in this country right now is due reparations.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ditto1958 1/18/2024 7:35:15 PM (No. 1639351)
No one alive today owes anything to anyone for things that happened prior to the end of the Civil War. And no one alive today is owed anything.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
seamusm 1/18/2024 7:37:24 PM (No. 1639353)
What a great idea. Give them a state to run as their own country and see if they can make a go of it on their own. Guess that'd be a failed ghetto whole nation. Make 'em beg for readmittance to the Union.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Vesicant 1/18/2024 7:44:37 PM (No. 1639354)
They already have homelands -- they're called Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Harvard, Washington DC, etc., etc., and look how well that has worked out. Of course, it's not up to me to say that blacks are incapable of self-government....
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Quigley 1/18/2024 7:45:59 PM (No. 1639356)
The Dimokkkrap Party needs to pay reparations.
That organization was the avid supporter of slavery, the producing cause of institutionalized racism through its jim crow laws and its terrorist organization the kkk.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Scribelus 1/18/2024 7:55:22 PM (No. 1639358)
This is, of course, blatant extortion. Extortionists, once successful, only want one thing. Namely, more!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
hershey 1/18/2024 8:02:57 PM (No. 1639361)
Results of the Obamanators agenda...and all the posters are right...they have already been paid, in one form or another...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 1/18/2024 8:03:48 PM (No. 1639362)
They have a homeland in Africa, created specifically for this purpose. It is called Liberia.
And predictably, the freed slaves who moved there and have been running the country have made a disaster of it.
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Slavery, an ancient sin against modern values.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
padiva 1/18/2024 8:13:17 PM (No. 1639369)
What about the descendants of men who fought in the Civil War?
My great-great-grandfather fought with the CT artillery.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Italiano 1/18/2024 8:16:05 PM (No. 1639372)
Check out what's left of our inner cities.
Just saying.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
PChristopher 1/18/2024 8:20:39 PM (No. 1639374)
The real question is should they be paid reparations, period!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Big Bopper 1/18/2024 8:21:35 PM (No. 1639375)
No. 17: Isn't that a reason to give them an attractive offer to leave?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
rochow 1/18/2024 8:52:30 PM (No. 1639390)
Question for the black activists. What are they asking of the black chief who caged their fellow brethren and hustled them down to the boats of the Portuguese so that they can get their hand on the beads that they brought. Every country in Europe had slaves. White slaves. Russia had the most. Do these people also agitate to get paid because they were called souls, moujiks. Oh I forgot, they got on with their lives. What about white missionaries who taught blacks how to read and write. Forget arithmetic, dad be raciss'. Many missionaries did not get around to teaching anything, they became a succulent meal. Perhaps their families should go after the African killer tribes.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
FormerDem 1/18/2024 8:54:19 PM (No. 1639391)
No. American slavery ended because of an ocean of blood shed by white Americans. It was not ended by Black Americans, and for that, slavery continues in Africa, and Black Americans are doing zero about it. .... Most Americans these days are newcomers who had nothing to do with it all one way or the other. Furthermore. What you pay for you will get more of. If racial division pays, there will be more racial division. Absolutely not. No.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
bgarrett 1/18/2024 8:55:58 PM (No. 1639392)
Didnt Abraham Lincoln answer this question when he sent them to Liberia? I am willing to help pay their way there
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 1/18/2024 8:57:15 PM (No. 1639393)
They got 40 acres (and a mule) along the Atlantic coast in 1865 but it was soon taken away from them and returned to the original owners, BY THE GOVERNMENT!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
red1066 1/18/2024 9:20:53 PM (No. 1639402)
Reparations have been paid by 400,000 white Union soldiers who died to free the slaves. Any talk of reparations starts and ends there.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 1/18/2024 9:40:43 PM (No. 1639410)
American WHITES must therefore be paid back for fighting to free the slaves from slavery.
Why doesn't anyone ever ask these whiney blacks where they'd be right now had their relatives NOT been brought here as slaves, and what their quality of life would be in Africa today?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 1/18/2024 9:46:17 PM (No. 1639413)
No
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Encore 1/18/2024 10:18:36 PM (No. 1639419)
They want new homelands? I propose this mostly lush, vast, available expanse known as…let’s spell it…A-F-R-I-C-A!
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I believe every living person that has legally been held as a slave in the United States should be compensated. I estimate the number eligible for that compensation is 0.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
bamboozle 1/18/2024 11:18:47 PM (No. 1639444)
I'd say that reparations were paid at a little town in Pennsylvania right around 4-Jul-1863.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Trigger2 1/18/2024 11:54:54 PM (No. 1639452)
If they want reparations, let them seek it from the African nations who sold them to begin with.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
mifla 1/19/2024 4:25:17 AM (No. 1639491)
The concept of reparations is kept alive by Dem politicians running for higher office.
Long on promises, short on delivery.
If the black community wants to improve their lot, they should stop voting for people who lie to them.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
jeffinitely 1/19/2024 4:35:50 AM (No. 1639497)
I'll have to review the history, but I don't recall the US Government buying slaves from Africa. Those seeking reparations should probably go after the corporations and landowners that bought the slaves.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
chillijilli 1/19/2024 7:24:30 AM (No. 1639564)
OK then. Let's judge ALL of HISTORY with TODAY'S eyes. That means reparations for everybody for everything! I demand reparations because I couldn't vote until 100 years ago. Give me something. Big. Or better yet, let's wipe history clean---like with a cloth, as Hillary would prefer. As of tomorrow at midnight, there will BE NO history. Poof! It's gone. We will do and say only perfect things and the world will only be allowed to be wonderful in every way. We will all live flawless, blissful lives and crime and bad stuff will disappear. Right?
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
5 handicap 1/19/2024 7:25:19 AM (No. 1639565)
Americans have been paying reparations for over a century with well over 50% of the Black population in certain areas on WELFARE, free lunch, and other subsidies, America has paid ENOUGH! Get a job!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
broken01 1/19/2024 8:58:27 AM (No. 1639643)
No. Next!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 1/19/2024 9:04:04 AM (No. 1639649)
The Democrat party was the slave party, so start with them. Democrats remained outcasts until the 1930s, when they discovered giving away billions of dollars would garner more votes.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 1/19/2024 9:32:55 AM (No. 1639679)
Homeland?
Ever been to Harlem?
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
David Key 1/19/2024 9:41:22 AM (No. 1639688)
hey maybe we could give them 40 acres and a mule to get them started.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 1/19/2024 10:23:56 AM (No. 1639721)
No.
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Unfortunate black individuals in Africa were captured by their black brothers and SOLD TO ISLAMIC traders before being sold to the white folks who carried them around the world. The BLACK Muslim movement it a joke of history repeated and reinforced endlessly by devious leftists of today. Islam today is carrying on the tradition of enslaving black people.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 1/19/2024 11:01:28 AM (No. 1639778)
I'd like to be paid for what has happened to the cities of my country.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
DVC 1/19/2024 1:10:53 PM (No. 1639913)
Give every black adult 40 acres of land tomorrow in an in 15 years, 80-90% would be right back in the inner city, doing what they do today.
The good black folks would make the best of it, but they are already educated, gainfully employed, part of the solution, not part of the problem. The rest would sell it quickly for cash and then blow the cash.
Look at Ben Carson as the perfect example. Poor, single mom upbringing....but he didn't give in to the inner city disaster culture. And he's a heroic brain surgeon of the highest caliber. Anyone in that situation who tried hard could do this, too.
Handouts don't change the person.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
cheeflo 1/20/2024 3:20:38 PM (No. 1640756)
No. Next question.
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