Should families of white northern soldiers who died or were wounded while fighting to free black slaves get reparations ? Yes ! Should black africans who sold their own people to slave traders pay reparations? Yes.. Should blacks that are in prison for serious drug offenses and violent crime get reparations? No ! Should blacks who stay on welfare as a way of life get reparatioms? No !
I support families of white northern soldiers getting reparations.The southern confederate states should pay for it.
The real question is whether descendants of white northern soldiers should have to pay reparations. And descendants of people who immigrated to the US after the civil war. And descendants of southerners who didn't own slaves (96% of them).
My g.g.g.grandfather and his uncle enlisted in Maine. My g.g.g. grandfather was only seventeen but he wanted to be with his uncle. The uncle died of cholera a month later in a training camp in New York. My g.g. grandfather went on with the 21st Maine and he was wounded at Port Hudson, Louisiana and spent two years in a confederate prison camp. He told family members that he survived by eating the undigested oats in the horseshit. This is what white male privilege looks like sometimes.
There should be no reparations. In this day and age, honest work for honest wages. My great grandfather was a Jew. His family had stuff stolen from him before the war. Does he get a free check? NO! He just went to work in America. He earned his due by his own work, didn't look for a free handout. These black folks need to realize the same. Nobody gives a shit what people who have been dead for 200 years have done...You do not deserve shit from the sweat off THEIR backs. You deserve to get paid only for the sweat off YOUR back!
You do know that many Jewish people do in fact get reparations payments from Germany since the 1950s that still continue today to the survivors of the Holocaust. I think now about +500 million dollars has been paid out since the 1950s and still counting. Today there are about +161k remaining survivors still alive and still receiving payments from Germany. Their average age is about 85 years old today. They are not the only ones too...other ethnic groups, and different races all over the world are receiving reparations. The reparations are either as check payments, land, social benefits, food, fast-track immigration back to their home country, housing, health care, education, and government positions. A ex-girlfriend (Korean) in the military...her family (parents) were receiving reparations from Japan for the bullshit (murders, tortures, war encampments of civilians) that Japan did to Korea. It's a fucked up world and she was extremely angry for what Japan did to her parents even though it did not happen to her. Reparations are the act or process of making amends for a wrong. ACCORDING TO THE UNITED NATIONS: Adequate, effective and prompt reparation is intended to promote justice by redressing gross violations of international human rights law or serious violations of international humanitarian law. wrbtrader
Reparations should be paid by conservative whites in the confederate states, the people responsible for Jim Crow, slavery and The KKK.
Violent Blacks thugs who prey on hard working people should also pay reparations. BLM should pay reparations to the communities they burned and plundered. Where does it end? Reparations are a silly and unrealistic idea.