Do "Blacks" deserve REPERATIONS???
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Yes the same as the Irish who were valued for far less than other races in the 1800's in the US. Enough already.....\n\nIf you don't believe this, look it up.
947830
Other answers here seem to be approaching this from an individual or legal angle.  I have the feeling that you're wondering why we as a nation seem to continue bringing up the horrible injustice of slavery.  It's true that it was very wrong the way that they were treated, and then the injustice given to the freed slaves up until the 60s, but it is time to move on.  The individual people were the ones "guilty" of owning slaves; we as a nation today should feel regret but not to the extent we seem to today.  Hopefully someday we'll stop feeling guilty and realize it was our ancestors and not us as individuals who treated them so poorly.
522339
You really need to stop listening to the lies of white people. I know who you are referring to when you say "Black Leaders" as much as I research black history I never came across them, well sometimes. They don't do it for their gain but they bug whites people with it. They never hardly go to blacks with this stuff. It would benefit them telling blacks only whites. I don't need any money from anyone, but I will say this someone will pay for my father oppression and my families segregation. America should not be allowed to keep committing crimes and do nothing about. They will no longer start war and not pay for it, the time will come when they will reap what they have sowed.
1177023
Because they can get away with it. Not all back people are racist. I have black friends and they're not. But this site is a prime example, You make a valid point and a load of brainless so called do gooders get on your case and start abusing you. And you'll notice they are all white, the black and coloured people who've answered you have mostly given you a constructive answer. The ones who haven't are the true racists because they are wrapping people in cotton wool just because they're a different colour, and not treating them as equal human beings. And the black people who have given you a stupid answer, like the ones who call you racist, are a result of living in this so called PC society. It like there are saying "hang on, you can't called a wrong doer if he's black, it's just not done"
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who is responsible for the crime against any one.. the one who committed it. how r you going to blame todays whites for slavery in the past.. or todays germans..for what happened to the jewish people.. unless they are indeed the ones who committed the crimes.  unfortunately  black  on  black crime is at an all time high. so i would suggest we stop pointing the finger at everyone.   hello, racist come in all  colors. why dont you take it one step at a time.. starting with self improvement and then move on from there. prejudice will be around unfortunately as long as we all look .. act.. and talk in a different manner. so we can either stand in one position and complain and look for someone to blame or we can move on and try to improve our lives.
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Yes that black part was racist but I agree with the thought of not helping and not the racism part. Personally, i think if anyone cant help themselves then they might as well perish. What was it again? "Anything not worth defending isnt worth having" not limited to life btw.
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I think that we should be able to buy special trash bags to put all those bad neighbors in.  Ha ha ha  There is very little peace in this world but if i don't have peace in my life then i will raise pure hell.  I had a bad experience today because of a black nurse.  She would not give me a copy of my medications-so the doctor raised hell and made me wait longer then i should have and fussed because he had to give me the list.  I may never go to a blooming doctor again and if i  do i may take a tape recorder with me. He can have his and i will have mine! I am not being a racist or anything-she should have been nice even if she is black.  Other black people are.  I don't like her or my white doctor any more.  I just need a good doctor who is more professional.  I just think that we should start a raising hell club until we have the PEACE that we all deserve.
718251
I know what you mean, the reason Blacks never got anything because they never has rights to. When slavery ended in 1865 they were still hated even in king's day which was 40 years ago. In 1955 Emmett Till was lynch to death for Wilsiling at a white woman, how could they demand reparation at that time. Remember that in 1965 blacks were just allowed to vote in Mississippi. Couldn't even vote how could they get Billions in reparations. All those people you mention got things because they had the right to at that time. The Blacks that were slaves are dead true, but the wealth they made for this country is still their, which America is still not entiled to.\n\nYes blacks will get reparations more than you could imagine for Americas crime don't you read the prophecys and scriptures?\n\nMLK Jr\n"Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America, "You are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name. Be still and know that I'm God."\n\nAmerica pride will not allow them to admitt any wrong doing, "because those kinda things happen" they blame it on the "Africans" "Blacks" or anyone esle for the crime of their fathers and their country. Just read the questions like this on here most Whites will blame it on everyone but their own people, who committed a 440 year old crime.\n\n"Most whites will protest that they bear neither responsibility nor blame for the conditions Blacks face. Neither they nor their for bearers ever owned slaves nor can they see themselves as having held anyone back or down." Today the younger generations of Whites resent being held morally or financially responsible for the racial sins of their ancestors, even though as whites, they still enjoy the inherited advantages and privileges of slavery."
541950
I hate it when a black person assumes that because I am white I support slavery or ever had an ancestor who had slaves. They seem to forget it was blacks who sold them into slavery and white's who fought to free them. Not all whites supported slavery!  I think it was horrible but I am also sick of them thinking they are entitled because of it.  What about the jews? They were wronged too, what do they get?  The Indians we stole this land from were wronged, what do they get?  I think it is unfair that they can have all black beauty pageants, all black colleges, all black scholarships, we cannot have an all white anything or we would be in big trouble for discrimination, not that I would want to anyway, but how fair is that????!!!!!  I think everyone should have the same rights and I am sick of hearing how they think they have less rights when they actually have MORE.  They will get a job even if less qualified and I have seen first hand how they can sit around and do nothing and cannot be fired, by law, because company would be in trouble if they fired them.  I like black people, but it angers me to no living end that they get away with stuff like that!  I have black friends and have heard them make remarks about getting retribution one day.  That is a real pisser offer for me!!!!  I have done nothing wrong to them!
531612
No, they should not. It is ridiculous and would be meaningless. The whole campaign appears to be just a fop by a few ne`er do wells as a precursor to demands for `reparation`.\n To the merchants of Bristol, slaves were just a commodity same as any other. Sad I know, but to start demanding apologies from descendants of anyone involved in this trade, or anyone living anywhere that benefitted from this trade is ludicrous. It would involve half the planet.
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I agree.  Why do they think they deserve payment?  Everyone in our litigious society is seeking an easy payday.  Get real.  When someone REALLY hurts these people, then they have a right to press for payment.  \n\nI bet G. Allred was in touch with them and put the idea in their heads!  Racism hurts, yes, but it made Richards look bad.  Now the hecklers look just as bad.
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Yet another whitewashed fast-forwarded version of black history. \n\nBlack people as a group are not 'angry'.  Some are angry; some don't care. My God...  And at this point I'd like to point out that we do not all mindlessly follow the lead of anyone put in front as some of you have stated. Don't beleive everything you read in the media ok?  Nobody whips black people up into a frenzy. Personally I don't know anyone who pays any attentiont to Al Sharpton.  Some of you are so insensitive and out of touch, it's ridiculous. \n\nTopics like this make me angry. People are just talking all out of their a_sses. How can people outside of a community speak for what goes on inside of it? I don't tell white people that black people have not discriminated against them. Why tell us that racism against us is a thing of the past?  You don't even know what being black in this country is or even means...\n\nAlso the black experience in this country is above and beyond slavery. What did you think?  Slavery ended. Slave and slave master just skipped off into the damned sunset, hand in hand singing  'Shiny Happy People' ? \n\nGive me a break.\nDisparities and negative atttudes about race do exist. For instance, black people are less likely to be hired. Did you know that? If not I don't know why because there have been several studies on the topic. It's the truth. I have a friend who was discouraged by the receptionist of a company from putting her more 'black-sounding' name on the application because the manager 'would be less likely to hire her'.   What do you think of this? \nEven black latinos in this country catch hell. For merely looking black. They are worse off than their whiter-looking counterparts.  They are subjected to the same economic and social treatment as us. The sad thing is some of them just got here and had no idea things were this f****ed up!   \nThis is a direct reflection of your so-called colorblind society. Because if black looking individuals who have nothing to do with the black experience can claim the same amount of injustice that black people supposedly whine about what does that really say to you about the progress of this country?  \n\nLet's end it here.  \nYou just don't get it; I will not even try to go into it with you. \n\nCan all of our problems be blamed on racism.  Yes (historically speaking) and no. The black community is at a crossroads. I won't get into it but we cannot let go of the past because the past still affects them.  However despite the institutionalized racism kept in place for decades black folks have got to come to terms with it.  We must get out of the victim role loop. No matter what has happened we must push forward.  We have no choice . The governement doesn't care. In truth it never did. \n\nAnd you say we should be thanking white people for enslaving the African to begin with? You deserve a good hard slap for that.\n\nThis country has completely f****d over an entire race of people.  My grandmother was begat out of rape--a product of her mother's white captors. The same is true for many blacks although racist propaganda will tell you different. Why else do you think we come in so many different hues?  I don't care if you're grandaddy was Thomas Jefferson, Washington or Roosevelt--who would be proud to claim that kind of legacy? \nThe denial of education, of voting rights, owning land, the rights of a black woman to her own body, of a black man to protect her and his family...  What the hell does THAT tell you?  Black people were never meant to progress as a people in this country; We were never supposed to succeed.\n\nSuppose you'll tell me to go back to Africa if I don't like this country?  Well, Africa is not my home. The African lost his cultural identity and had his native tongue and religion beat out of him once he was shipped here. \n\n...and I'm not going any damned where. My
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all i know is that they are haters. Black people had a bad history and look at us now. They are still trying to put down on us....well there is nothing to put down on now. [ex questions i've witnessed:\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvtrRnnmeoJkUGXOlA4kincjzKIX?qid=20061101140754AA1alum\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AufXq.WIIiJ75BO9AnAa0WUjzKIX?qid=20060920075718AAOIyqr ]\n\ni mean. i love ALL people.....this is nonsense.
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Trusted to treat them fairly?  The other 100's of banks don't treat them fairly?  Give me a break...  it seems like most blacks do more discrimination against themselves.  Do they have all black employees?  If they do I'm going to apply and then sue them for racism, then they won't have their own bank anymore because it will be my personal bank.
819830
Honestly these people are not doing the black people any good.  They are racist and pro tray all black people as racists.  It is interesting that they are all liberals.  Hmmmm
851527
Responding to THEY LIVE, it's not funny and you're just as ignorant as the people who use the word!!! Black people especially shouldn't use the word that degrades them. I don't know why they use it. they're just as ignorant as the people who made it. we need to come together as a black community and get it together!!
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definitley. they would probably do a better job. i think we should also have a black president one day. a little mix never hurt. it doesnt always have to be white men. = )