Putting A Price Tag On Slavery/ Reparations...

[blueboss]

If I heard this correctly on FOX news last night on the Shannon Bream show the Dems are suggesting the following for reparations.

So the number they’ve came up with is $6.2 quadrillion dollars which comes out to every African American to be paid $151 million. Which would cost every non African American $18.96 million.

I’m a wee bit short on my ante...


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[Doc]

Is that 24x the national debt? Or does it matter?

On the reparations part....do whites whos families innigrated in the 1900's or 2000's require to ante up? What about african americans who immigrated here, do they get paid? Does all the previous money received ie welfare and medicaide and social security, get deducted for those who received it?

[KeithKSR]

Those numbers show that Dems really aren’t serious about reparations.

[dan_bgblue]

Does all the previous money received ie welfare and medicaide and social security, get deducted for those who received it?

This!!

[Doc]

This!!

the taxpayers have spent $22 trillion on Johnson's war. which was basically the National dept prior to the COVID payouts.

So imagine, without welfare, the nation is solvent.

[CitizenBBN]

What if your ancestors didn't own any slaves? My family has been poor dirt farmers for as far back as anyone has found, certainly back to the earlier 1700s. AFAIK none of them owned anyone, and it's likely some of them were probably indentured servants, a form of contracted slavery.

So technically I should get a small check as well, as opposed to paying.

But it's an interesting notion, that descendants are responsible for the crimes of their ancestors. It will be the law in America and the Klingon Empire, and that's about it as far as I know.

[dan_bgblue]

What if your ancestors didn't own any slaves? My family has been poor dirt farmers for as far back as anyone has found, certainly back to the earlier 1700s. AFAIK none of them owned anyone, and it's likely some of them were probably indentured servants, a form of contracted slavery.

So technically I should get a small check as well, as opposed to paying.

Times 2

in KY plus Grandad was a moonshiner, and in Illinois they were underground coal miners

[Doc]

What if your ancestors didn't own any slaves? My family has been poor dirt farmers for as far back as anyone has found, certainly back to the earlier 1700s. AFAIK none of them owned anyone, and it's likely some of them were probably indentured servants, a form of contracted slavery.

So technically I should get a small check as well, as opposed to paying.

But it's an interesting notion, that descendants are responsible for the crimes of their ancestors. It will be the law in America and the Klingon Empire, and that's about it as far as I know.

This was my point. My maternal great grandparents immigrated to this country in the last 1900's, to rural NY. They were affectionately referred to as DIRT FARMERS (as opposed to dirt poor) because all they grew was dirt. They survived on meager earnings, so much so my grandfather dropped out of school to farm and care for his siblings when his mother died. They did not have any slaves. As for my paternal grandparents...not sure other than they were poor and drunks. God knows they had no slaves.

And what about the Wenyen Gabriels of this nation? Would he be due a check, considering he arrived here in the 2000's, well after the Republicans ended slavery, instilled civil rights legislation and made sure that minorities have the right to vote?

[Doc]

Times 2

in KY plus Grandad was a moonshiner, and in Illinois they were underground coal miners

Your grandad likely ran 'shine to my paternal granddaddy

[dan_bgblue]

Is that 24x the national debt? Or does it matter?

On the reparations part....do whites whos families innigrated in the 1900's or 2000's require to ante up? What about african americans who immigrated here, do they get paid? Does all the previous money received ie welfare and medicaide and social security, get deducted for those who received it?

Need to add 300 millions of dollars this gifted expenditure cost the American Taxpayer. The National Museum of African American History and Culture


Located in Washington, D.C., the museum opened to the public in 2016. Congress established the museum in 2003 and, according to its website, is "the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture."

The Smithsonian exhibit is in addition to these major black life exhibits in thse major cities..........
[29] In the meantime, other cities moved forward with major new African-American museums. The city of Detroit opened a $38.4 million, 120,000-square-foot (11,000 m2) Museum of African-American History in 1997,[12] and the city of Cincinnati was raising funds for a $90 million, 157,000-square-foot (14,600 m2) National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (which broke ground in 2002).[30] In 2000, a private group—upset with congressional delays—proposed constructing a $40 million, 400,000-square-foot (37,000 m2) museum on Poplar Point, a site on the Anacostia River across from the Washington Navy Yard.[31]

[TRUCKERCATFAN]

I’ve never owned a slave. The people who think they deserve these reparations have never been a slave. I don’t owe them sh!t!! They can all kiss my ass!