Come on! Someone in power needs to say that expecting a payment for what happened over 150 years ago is idiotic and living in a western country grants you a lot of privileges.
The only reparations I’d be willing to support would be to make a deal with an African country and offer land in Africa for those who want it. I doubt many of any would take the offer.
It would make for a funny movie if a white guy with like 3% African dna applied for reparations and got paid. They do say everyone came from Africa so why not use that?
What’s even dumber is the nations that still heavily engage in slavery will never be required to pay reparations because they genocided all their slaves. 300k slaves turned into a black population of what, 40 million from mostly former slaves in the Americas? By that same math there would be over 120 million Slavs, Baltic’s, and southern Europeans in the Middle East and Africa, so where are they?
Precisely why I wish slavery in the west was taught from a global perspective like Sowell suggests. Way too many people are unaware of slavery that still goes on today or that pretty much every group has enslaved or has been enslaved
Everytime they bring up “chattel slavery” I throw this, mass castration, and sex slavery back in their face. Chattel slavery was essentially serfdom with cash crops. That’s why there’s still a former slave population in western countries which is magically nonexistent in the rest of the world.
The best I can do is get someone to acknowledge slavery was all over but they still stick with black slavery in America was the worst mindset. Even in the U.S. some slaves had better treatment than others and some stayed on their former master’s property after slavery ended. My gg grandfather had it a little better since he was the illegitimate son of the master.
All that to say that you really don’t want to go down the path of who had it worse. I’ve heard some pretty gruesome stories about African slave owners or what happened to white slaves
Come on! Someone in power needs to say that expecting a payment for what happened over 150 years ago is idiotic and living in a western country grants you a lot of privileges.
The only reparations I’d be willing to support would be to make a deal with an African country and offer land in Africa for those who want it. I doubt many of any would take the offer.
It would make for a funny movie if a white guy with like 3% African dna applied for reparations and got paid. They do say everyone came from Africa so why not use that?
What’s even dumber is the nations that still heavily engage in slavery will never be required to pay reparations because they genocided all their slaves. 300k slaves turned into a black population of what, 40 million from mostly former slaves in the Americas? By that same math there would be over 120 million Slavs, Baltic’s, and southern Europeans in the Middle East and Africa, so where are they?
Precisely why I wish slavery in the west was taught from a global perspective like Sowell suggests. Way too many people are unaware of slavery that still goes on today or that pretty much every group has enslaved or has been enslaved
Everytime they bring up “chattel slavery” I throw this, mass castration, and sex slavery back in their face. Chattel slavery was essentially serfdom with cash crops. That’s why there’s still a former slave population in western countries which is magically nonexistent in the rest of the world.
The best I can do is get someone to acknowledge slavery was all over but they still stick with black slavery in America was the worst mindset. Even in the U.S. some slaves had better treatment than others and some stayed on their former master’s property after slavery ended. My gg grandfather had it a little better since he was the illegitimate son of the master.
All that to say that you really don’t want to go down the path of who had it worse. I’ve heard some pretty gruesome stories about African slave owners or what happened to white slaves