The war was already paid for. It was paid via taxes just like all wars are. What about the lives that were lost? None of that has anything to do with reparations.I know it was Westwall. Thats why I replied to him first. After noticing your post I then replied to you. No there is no value on what the North had to pay. Its like any other war that tax payers fund.It was westwall who brought up compensating Northern soldiers who fought or died to free the slaves. Not me. The point I was getting at was that in any compensation made to negros, is there a value on what the North had to pay in terms of money and lives worth anything? If so, should that be deducted from any compensation to the negro descendants of slaves?
As for WW II, it wasn't about freeing the Jews. So I wouldn't expect the Jews to give compensation to those who fought for the Allies. But I am against the Jews receiving the compensation they do over the whole holocaust thing. Seeing how it was largely bullshit. Also, do you know what the Japanese pay their victims of WW II? Not a damn penny.
Wars cost money. Somebody had to pay. And there had to be value to what was paid. Also, what about the lives that were lost. I bet those lives had a great deal of valu to those who lost them. And their family members. Or what about spending the rest of your life without legs. Those who lost them probably placed great value on them.
What do reparations have to do with reality?
Excuse me for butting in. But I don't know where you were going with this. The reality is that the North spent a lot of money, lost a lot of lives and had many more lives damaged by the war between the states. If money was to be given to negros for their ancestors having been slaves, those costs should be deducted from any such compensation. Also, what about the White Northern soldiers who were killed and never got a chance to have children. What were the lives of the White children who never got a chance to exist be worth. While the slaves were free to breed as many "whitie" haters as they wanted to.
That is my point. Any claim for reparations is ridiculous, and offensive, so long as the sacrifice of the northern soldiers who died is ignored.