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The Japanese who's rights were violated were still alive and they are the ones who received compensation. The last black who was ever a slave died at least 50 years ago.
The situation with the Indians is too complicated to even bring into this discussion.
The bottom line is, I have never done a thing to any black person. As a matter of fact, none of my ancestors ever had anything to do with slavery. They came to this country long after slavery was abolished. Why should I be taxed so they can be "compensated" for crimes they never experienced?
You make a weird analogy here. Rights violated?
I thought you conservatives held that rights were a natural thing.
Dragging people off from another country to be sold into slavery is about the grossest violation of "natural rights" I can imagine.
Those people have all been dead for 200 years. The people who will be compensated never were slaves. They are entitled to nothing from me.
If you understood rights you would understand that children aren't responsible for the sins of their fathers. Furthermore, my fathers committed no sins.
Again, why am I obligated to compensate someone who isn't the victim of any crime?
Really? Then I suppose you can produce evidence of West Africans with their own money in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Post 131. Oh..and the Songhais were doing brain surgery.
The word "money" doesn't even appear in your article.
No banana.
Furthermore, that empire ended in the 16th century.
The Japanese who's rights were violated were still alive and they are the ones who received compensation. The last black who was ever a slave died at least 50 years ago.
The situation with the Indians is too complicated to even bring into this discussion.
The bottom line is, I have never done a thing to any black person. As a matter of fact, none of my ancestors ever had anything to do with slavery. They came to this country long after slavery was abolished. Why should I be taxed so they can be "compensated" for crimes they never experienced?
You make a weird analogy here. Rights violated?
I thought you conservatives held that rights were a natural thing.
Dragging people off from another country to be sold into slavery is about the grossest violation of "natural rights" I can imagine.
Those people have all been dead for 200 years. The people who will be compensated never were slaves. They are entitled to nothing from me.
If you understood rights you would understand that children aren't responsible for the sins of their fathers. Furthermore, my fathers committed no sins.
Again, why am I obligated to compensate someone who isn't the victim of any crime?
You make a weird analogy here. Rights violated?
I thought you conservatives held that rights were a natural thing.
Dragging people off from another country to be sold into slavery is about the grossest violation of "natural rights" I can imagine.
Those people have all been dead for 200 years. The people who will be compensated never were slaves. They are entitled to nothing from me.
If you understood rights you would understand that children aren't responsible for the sins of their fathers. Furthermore, my fathers committed no sins.
Again, why am I obligated to compensate someone who isn't the victim of any crime?
Depending on who you talk too..some say the last US slave died in 1927. In any case..after the Civil war..black people in this country faced apartheid in the south and massive discrimination in the north. Slavery itself led to poverty and suffering for generations. The detrimental effects are still felt today. And if you count yourself as an American..it was America..that caused all this misery.
Learn the history of American, you dumbass.
" In Alabama alone, hundreds of thousands of pages of public documents attest to the arrests, subsequent sale, and delivery of thousands of African Americans into mines, lumber camps, quarries, farms, and factories. More than thirty thousand pages related to debt slavery cases sit in the files of the Department of Justice at the National Archives. Altogether, millions of mostly obscure entries in the public record offer details of a forced labor system of monotonous enormity.
Instead of thousands of true thieves and thugs drawn into the system over decades, the records demonstrate the capture and imprisonment of thousands of random indigent citizens, almost always under the thinnest chimera of probable cause or judicial process. The total number of workers caught in this net had to have totaled more than a hundred thousand and perhaps more than twice that figure. Instead of evidence showing black crime waves, the original records of county jails indicated thousands of arrests for inconsequential charges or for violations of laws specifically written to intimidate blackschanging employers without permission, vagrancy, riding freight cars without a ticket, engaging in sexual activity or loud talkwith white women."
Post 131. Oh..and the Songhais were doing brain surgery.
The word "money" doesn't even appear in your article.
No banana.
Furthermore, that empire ended in the 16th century.
Seriously man. Doing the exact word thing doesn't further your cause. There was an economy..taxation and trade. They used currency. It may not have been what we use today..but these were huge empires.
And..
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Learn the history of American, you dumbass.
" In Alabama alone, hundreds of thousands of pages of public documents attest to the arrests, subsequent sale, and delivery of thousands of African Americans into mines, lumber camps, quarries, farms, and factories. More than thirty thousand pages related to debt slavery cases sit in the files of the Department of Justice at the National Archives. Altogether, millions of mostly obscure entries in the public record offer details of a forced labor system of monotonous enormity.
Instead of thousands of true thieves and thugs drawn into the system over decades, the records demonstrate the capture and imprisonment of thousands of random indigent citizens, almost always under the thinnest chimera of probable cause or judicial process. The total number of workers caught in this net had to have totaled more than a hundred thousand and perhaps more than twice that figure. Instead of evidence showing black crime waves, the original records of county jails indicated thousands of arrests for inconsequential charges or for violations of laws specifically written to intimidate blackschanging employers without permission, vagrancy, riding freight cars without a ticket, engaging in sexual activity or loud talkwith white women."
Learn some simple logic, moron. How am I responsible for any of that?
Learn the history of American, you dumbass.
" In Alabama alone, hundreds of thousands of pages of public documents attest to the arrests, subsequent sale, and delivery of thousands of African Americans into mines, lumber camps, quarries, farms, and factories. More than thirty thousand pages related to debt slavery cases sit in the files of the Department of Justice at the National Archives. Altogether, millions of mostly obscure entries in the public record offer details of a forced labor system of monotonous enormity.
Instead of thousands of true thieves and thugs drawn into the system over decades, the records demonstrate the capture and imprisonment of thousands of random indigent citizens, almost always under the thinnest chimera of probable cause or judicial process. The total number of workers caught in this net had to have totaled more than a hundred thousand and perhaps more than twice that figure. Instead of evidence showing black crime waves, the original records of county jails indicated thousands of arrests for inconsequential charges or for violations of laws specifically written to intimidate blackschanging employers without permission, vagrancy, riding freight cars without a ticket, engaging in sexual activity or loud talkwith white women."
Learn some simple logic, moron. How am I responsible for any of that?
"Those people have all been dead for 200 years. The people who will be compensated never were slaves. They are entitled to nothing from me.
If you understood rights you would understand that children aren't responsible for the sins of their fathers. Furthermore, my fathers committed no sins.
Again, why am I obligated to compensate someone who isn't the victim of any crime?"
You are clueless about American history.
Learn some simple logic, moron. How am I responsible for any of that?
"Those people have all been dead for 200 years. The people who will be compensated never were slaves. They are entitled to nothing from me.
If you understood rights you would understand that children aren't responsible for the sins of their fathers. Furthermore, my fathers committed no sins.
Again, why am I obligated to compensate someone who isn't the victim of any crime?"
You are clueless about American history.
Republicansjust hate poor people, I guess...lol. How about good jobs, health care, and great schools for EVERYONE? Just vote Dem-see sig pp1.
history proves white people like to judge people by the color of their skin.
I dunno why
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As always, Mr Sowell is exactly right............
