So how would you distribute that? If someone can prove that they had ancestors who were slaves, they get a check?
Doesn't property inflate naturally with the time.? You know, property is rather the standard to judge inflation.
If they do it for the offspring, then that Mexican kid down the street, the one that got here last year is in for a big ass surprise when he finds out he has to buy some black kid four acres as his share of getting him twenty. I bet he did not plan on that one!
No not ancestors. Living slaves only. Why should any of us benefit from ancestors? Queen elizabeth is my 23rd cousin. I dont get a red carpet when i get out of my car. I bet i had an ancestor die at the hands of a tyranical british king seeing as how im part irish and scottish. I dont get payments? Maybe britain should give all the irish a life time supply of potatoes? How about the scottish who had ancestors raped by british lords? Should they get 20 minutes with english wives in the spirit of fairness?
uh oh! This is getting too close to home. I am the first generation of my family born here. I don't want a fucking supply of potatoes! But perhaps just a point of interest for a former Cop. I have a couple of cousins over there, former Cops. One was Chief in Belfast, another Chief in Glasgow.
The "choice" property is already taken, for the most part. But you're on to something. Those 20 acres given away in 1865 would be worth many $millions today, if they were in Manhattan, for example. The issue goes beyond slavery itself, to the extended maltreatment of former slaves and their descendants for over a century. Sure, this is a "free" country and your ancestors had no issues hanging out a shingle and operating a business. For blacks who did the same, they'd have their businesses burned to the ground - and the cops took part in doing the burning. Much of this happened during your lifetime - you had to have seen it. Decades of that meant little opportunity and chance to grow family fortunes. So yeah, make 'em whole - restore what family fortunes they would have had if they were white like you.
Which would be accomplished by...heavily taxing rich white people? I never knew that the Libertarian platform included such radical wealth distribution. Learn something new every day...
How did I know that the guy starting a thread with the idea of "let's re-think how bad slavery was!" would be MarAzul? Call it a wild hunch.
You bet! Just think how much better it would have been than war. If you don't think avoiding war by "compensation" for loss of property, I can't follow you reasoning.
Starting down that road, you will find many intersection where big crowds demand a take of the treasury. A lot of family fortunes have never been made, because of bad shit happening, and taking from them to give to a select few is just some more bad shit.
Ha! You know Rasta! You really have a bent mind with limited ability to grasp the essence. But I am pleased that you can spell MarAzul!
You sir are an unqualified judge of people.....once again with a false judgement about someone ...parroting Trump's practice of leading by insult...respect...pass it on...if anyone has a limited ability to grasp a concept that doesn't support his narrative....pot, kettle, black
Like billions for an unnecessary border wall? I'd say the Civil War accomplished more than the Viet Nam or Korean wars did....and the Civil war was not all about slavery...that was part of it but humans selling humans for monetary compensation is wrong no matter what the profit margins are.....the south did not have to drag the war out.....they still practiced racial segregation long after the war.
Now this is a concept that is most interesting. Whites all have generational fortunes! I don't even know any of these people, but I guess you do? Just what is the thinking here?
Well he sure did not grasp the essence of what the thread was about, just like you fail to grasp the reason for the response.
Next you'll say that we shouldn't have lost so many lives in the American revolution or wasted the money when England was the supreme leader of the colonies.....England should have just bought the colonists off and avoided the cost of war eh?
