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[PurpleDaze112]

we talked about this in my history class. do you think black people should get reparations for slavery?

I actually do think so, and for these reasons.

1. they were PROMISED
2. slavery was an institution that not only displaced a people, but destroyed their culture and history
3. it would help the economy

reparations would cause each person of african descent (about 36 million in america)to get at least $10k. That would lead to new houses being purchased, cars bought, and educations paid for. Small businesses would be started too. And after all, Jews got reparations from the german gov't because of the holocaust, native americans get money for college from the feds, adn Japanese americans too. Slavery wasn't formally apologized for until bill clinton.

[schizo]

I don't see how giving out $10k to every black person in America would help the economy, especially in the state that it's in now. I understand that you need to spend money to make money, but we've already spent enough.

Slavery was abolished a long time ago. If reparations were going to be given, they should have been handed out then. Nobody from that time is still alive, so why should the current government pay for something they had nothing to do with? The fact is that almost every group of people has faced some sort of harsh treatment or persecution in the past. My great grandparents had to leave Poland because of WWII, and my family has never received any payment from that (nor would we want it because none of us were effected by it).

Plus, how could they possibly find every black person with ancestors that were slaves? Plenty of black people from Africa and other countries have come to America since slavery was abolished. What stops them from claiming they should get reparations, too?

[Uronacid]

Slavery was abolished a long time ago. If reparations were going to be given, they should have been handed out then. Nobody from that time is still alive, so why should the current government pay for something they had nothing to do with? The fact is that almost every group of people has faced some sort of harsh treatment or persecution in the past. My great grandparents had to leave Poland because of WWII, and my family has never received any payment from that (nor would we want it because none of us were effected by it).

Well said.