If you want to increase racism and make all parties involved more resentful, go ahead and enact reparations. It’s just another unwarranted, immoral redistribution of wealth on top of the unwarranted, immoral redistribution of wealth from slaves who died well over a century ago. Nothing else will be accomplished except assuage the guilt of some descendants of slaveowners by giving all living descendants of slaves money from people who for the most part aren’t descendants of slaveowners.
The Japanese received some compensation in 1988 for lost property from 1942 to 1945.
The Japanese situation was different. The time gap was 43 years. Compensation was given to the actual Japanese who were interred, not their descendants who were never interred.
So many of your answers only give a part of the story. You seem too smart to be this misinformed. You seem very purposeful.
Congress provided $38 million in reparations in 1948 and forty years later paid an additional $20,000 to each surviving individual who had been detained in the camps
Congress provided $38 million in reparations in 1948 and forty years later paid an additional $20,000 to each surviving individual who had been detained in the camps
But reparations are for grievances. Simply fitting a racial category doesn't qualify a person for reparation of the grievances of some people who fit the same racial category. For instance, someone who immigrated to the USA from an African country in the last couple decades doesn't have the same grievances as people who came here involuntarily in previous centuries.
Why do you so over simplify? This is just wrong. Blacks from Africa, Caribbean, Europe do not count in American reparations and they are not what is meant by Black in these discussions.
This discussion is extremely timely with a presidential candidate of Jamaican descent claiming to be "black" but if anyone the British owe reparations to Jamaicans, no? Etc.
This is a really difficult subject.
I do believe there should be some.
But I dont believe it should be in a monetary way.
I would be better if the lineage were given ways to support themselves better.
Government jobs, paid scholarships.
But it is hard to determine who would get them, and for the people that cant trace their lineage, they are screwed.
So it is a very hard subject.
It will be hard to please everyone.
I also think the plantation owners and their lineage should also have to pay a price.
But you have to remember, it was legal in the past.
What they were doing may not have been right, but it was legal.
So there is a lot of gray area.
Absolutely not. There is no sound solution. If we could find a way to give some resources to black people that are over 60 that deserve it, then I am all for it. But there hasn’t been a solution that is remotely plausible.
Exactly. I’m referring to when it was illegal to charge more money to black people or have policies that discriminated on race/color. Civil Rights Act of 1964
People that were directly affected against policies that are now illegal, are over 60 and most likely over 80. And 80 year old was 20 and trying to get a loan for a house when he found out he couldn’t because of the color of his skin.
It should not be monetary. No one alive today directly participated in or was directly affected by slavery so making someone pay money to someone else doesn’t make sense. That would have been best to do as soon as slavery was abolished.
I think if anything it should be assistance with education tuition similar to what the GI bill did after WWII.
We need reparations for white people. Far more whites have been killed and far more has been robbed from us in taxes and robberies than ever was taken from blacks.
Extortion is the unlawful act of obtaining money, property, or services from another person through the use of force, threats, or coercion. It involves an illegitimate demand or request made by one party to another, often accompanied by a credible threat of harm, injury, or damage to the victim’s person, property, or reputation.
is the definition of extortion, why should reparations be the extortion then? You argue that slavery was not extortion because it was lawful at some point. If this is the only argument, you can make a law to make repartition lawful, can’t you?
Extortion is the unlawful act of obtaining money, property, or services from another person through the use of force, threats, or coercion. It involves an illegitimate demand or request made by one party to another, often accompanied by a credible threat of harm, injury, or damage to the victim’s person, property, or reputation.
Because you are forcing non slave owners to pay non slaves
There is zero moral justification for reparations. It’s simply extortion. I refuse to accept the premise that reparations are due. Agreeing to any plan, e.g., that Democrats would be the ones to pay, implicitly accepts that reparations are just. Such acceptance would undermine any moral foundation for the country’s legal system, which has already been significantly debased.
Justice is irrelevant to this discussion so far. If the country passes a law to compensate descendants of slaves, the act of using public money to pay that compensation would be legal, and therefore not extortion. The same as slavery, having been legal, was not extortion.
I think they are due-if actions made against their person was made.
Black folks are unfortunately more reliant on gov't assistant, but this is by design.
They must be aware of the system.
Then, file for SPC to become a private man/women, then justice against their person can be served if they still desire so.