Calls for reparations have grown louder in recent years, with an increasing number of cities, states and universities considering compensation in some form to descendants of slavery.
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Reparations should have been done 150 years ago. It's too late now. All parties are dead. What are they going to do? Dig up corpses and put put piles of money in their coffins?
I assume that the idea is to give money to the descendants. This is impossible on so many levels. First of all who is going to get money? The actual victims are all deceased. Most died over a century ago. To distribute this fairly one would have identify every single slave that has living descendants then create a data base of every single descendant so that their estates could be divided evenly and equitably among their descendants. Only problem is that records of such will be hideously incomplete. So what do you do? Just hand money over to every person with dark skin? Not every Black person is descended from slaves. President Obama is 50% Sub Saharan African yet he is not descended from a single American slave as 100% of his African ancestors were all born in Africa. There are many Black people who came from Africa and elsewhere after 1865. Should they get a cut? Next issue is who pays into it? There is nobody alive today who ever owned a slave. You can't sue someone for something they didn't do and are not responsible for. I never owned a slave. My ancestors did not own slaves. I know and I can prove it. Should someone who never participated nor benefited from an atrocity be required to pay someone who was never a victim of that atrocity? I should think not. I owe NOBODY any money at all for slavery. I never owned a slave. I will NOT being paying any reparations. If the government decides to pay reparations and increases my tax burden by $1000 to pay for it I will withhold that portion of the tax as an unconstitutional confiscation of assets. I simply will NOT pay it. I earn less than the median income. I have no assets to speak of. I have in no way benefited from any other person's crimes or immoral activities. What little I do have I earned with hard work. And to be clear, I inherited $0 from my parents, grandparents or any other ancestors. I grew up in poverty. My Dad died when I was 16. Mom worked two jobs and barely made ends meet. She died penniless, actually owing money.
The owner of he business I work for is Black and he agrees with me. The supervisor I work under is Black and also agrees with me. My landlady whose net worth is somewhere north of $10 million is also Black and she agrees with me. My doctor is Black and he agrees with me.
Don't just bring up reparations on Juneteenth, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day, we should be bringing this up everyday. Cut the check because we're done talking.
how to get people to stop filing taxes ever again 101
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Its too bad Biden tanked the economy so there isn't any money for reparations. Although its not taught in schools, affirmative action was instituted in lieu of reparations. So i guess if we pay it out, affirmative action laws must end…
Of course Black people overwhelming support it. They get a pay out.
13:29 Stop it! The struggles are not the same.
Nobody ever talks about how the United States felt entitled to impose slavery jim crow systemic racism or whatever just how the people who were hurt by these policies are acting entitled.
Did anyone remember how the Irish immigrants were treated a hundred years ago ? Lol. Many came without education and no reading skills and were working many labor and hazardous ⚠️ jobs. Ohhh but because Irish people are white and they are adapted to the USA and got everything they work for it is not an issue anymore. By the way I am not Irish. How about how Jews were treated too same issue nobody wanted to hire Jews hundred years ago but I do not see the Jews complaining about reparations because they accomplished everything possible. Ummm the next generation of Mexicans too did well. Case in point Jeff Besos girlfriend is third generation Mexican. I do not see her complaining about reparations. 😂
Meet the fake press 😂🤣😂🤣
As a Californian I’m proud of out state for doing h to be right thing. It’s about time!
😂😂 Good luck Murica! Hail China and Russia!
Reperations will enable black people to murder black people with more expensive guns?
"Missed?" He's speaking as if it were an innocent oversight. They deliberately made the decision that Black pain was inconsequential thus not deserving of recognition.
😂…Patricia coler took your blm reparations….typical race monkey…shes just faster than all the other monkeys…she be faster than will smith .
My tax dollars shouldn't go to reparations for what colonizers did to their ancestors.
BLOOD IS REQUIRED, AMEN…
Blood is required for bloodshed of the poor Black and Brown Hebrew Slaves Amen…
May the Lord God of True Yisrael deliver the blood of our oppressors, our destroyers, our enemies, the heathen gentile Edomite caucasian race of snaKKKes Amen…
NUMBERS 35:33
[33]So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
HABAKKUK 2:12
[12]Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
J.R.WILLIS
AUTHOR: A RACE OF DEMONS 2017
AUTHOR: SPIRITUAL CRIMES 2018
AUTHOR: THE PROPHECIES
AUTHOR: THE PROPHECIES, BOOK 2
AUTHOR: DAEMONOLOGIE YEAR 2020
Another hand out for doing nothing
Just like food stamps, unemployment, welfare, etc…
There’s a future out there for all that dream it. Use your energy to earn it.
Sorry about the past which we cannot undo, however we can overcome it
California is Broke…..Don’t you watch the News….
NO!
I refuse to be taxed for being white!
It's gonna be a short political battle. This issue is as bad for Democrats as reproductive rights is for Republicans. Political kryptonite.
These people literally want to steal trillions of dollars just because they are black. It's hard to have any sympathy for them because of that attitude. They don't deserve a single dime in 'reparations'. Someone was mean to their great great grandpa, that's called life.
The Biden gang robbed and ruined America. We aren't falling for it
Stop trying to buy our votes. Stop treating us like children
Shouldn't Every single person in the United States today give reparations to all people of any Native tribe blood first? Since they were pretty much nearly exterminated for this land that we all call home today no matter how we got here?
Coleman 🤡 Hughes go sit down somewhere!! And don’t you try to twist Dr Kings words!!!😡😡
Please let’s not be like the “🤡Bruce’s Beach Family” that threw away a 500 Million.
Most Whites disagree on Reparations, Yet we can fund Ukraine 89 Billion with no obligation to pay it back…smh🤦🏾♂️
Asians deserve some reparations as well. All them railroads and laundry we be doing. Give me some money baby!
I was raised as one of six to a schoolteacher in the most-poorly paid district in Southern California. We never spoke of poverty, but we lived it.
If reparations are paid solely on the basis of race, I shall hire a lawyer and attempt to certify a class action extending further than fifty years into the past and embracing every teacher in every school district in agricultural and metropolitan California below the poverty line of the times.