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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.

[brooklyneast05]

this is why i don't bother trying to have this discussion with white people. it's always something because they're in denial that at the end of the day, they didn't pay their debt. there is no way around it. they owed a lot, and they didn't and never will pay it. it's a bitch move, and it's more of a bitch move when white people act like they have no responsibility in the state of the black community today. what a joke. white people have some responsibility in the poor conditions of pretty much every minority here in my opinion.

slavery was abolished a long time ago, but it's not like everything was all grand once they abolished slavery. i mean white people still held black people down a really f*cking long time after that. i guess people forget that the civil rights movement wasn't that long ago.

it's a bunch of what ifs. nobody knows that i would have been worse off today if my ancestors hadn't been taken away and forced make another people rich. i don't know why people wanna act like if it wasn't for them i'd be dirt poor, naked, starving and living in a hut, as if that's how the entire continent of africa is. it's impossible to compare anyway because we're comparing the current US and the current africa. without the slave trade, we don't know the that US would be how it is today and we don't know that africa would either.

but it's whatever cause like i've said, if you're white, i don't even see a point in arguing with you. especially as long as people want me to be glad for everything that's happened to my family and community i just don't agree with that.


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oh i guess i haven't gotten my reparation yet then since i'm not on welfare and haven't known anyone in my family who has been.