50,000 New Yorkers died fighting slavery — is that not reparations?

[DigitalDrifter]

Of course it is, but paying with your life is not cash, so of course it will never fly.

Regarding reparations for slavery, New York state gave at the office.

Or, more precisely, on the battlefields of the most lethal war in American history — fought fundamentally, and successfully, to end slavery.

So it’s just bizarre that seven-plus generations after the Empire State itself abolished slavery — in 1827! — New Yorkers who never owned slaves are to be asked to pony up to “compensate” New Yorkers who never were slaves.

That last bit is by now a cliché, of course — but this says more about the reparations movement’s growing ubiquity than it does about its moral or intellectual integrity.

Now New York is to get a full ration of reparations bushwa: Albany intends to establish a commission to “study” the matter — though if California’s recent experience is a fair measure, the only real question will be the size of the proposed payout.

MSN

 

[EMH]

If the reparations crowd was actually interested in historical justice, it would go after those responsible...

The Confederate Slave Owners

The Black Tribes in Africa who rounded up other Black Africans and sold them to Jew owned slave ships and were doing so well before 1600.


One place where slaves were sold prior to 1600 is now called Ukraine...

 

[1srelluc]

Like some of their ancestors before them it's time for the blacks to ante-up and kick-in like men.

 

[EMH]

So, who would possess the most guilty DNA in American history?

The one with Black African Slavers and Confederate Slaver DNA...

This one, the gay man in the center of the other two...

 

[jotathought]

White liberals are looking to garner votes for the black population, and the blacks who would be receiving these benefits are looking for continued enslavement to government dependency. What problem do reparations solve, and what happens with future generations? Does it stop the black population from airing their grievances?

 

[Votto]

Of course it is, but paying with your life is not cash, so of course it will never fly.

MSN

With massive government induced inflation, we are all now slaves of the government.

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

No one should have got reparations...not the slave owners (who did get them), not Jews (who did get them) not Native Americans (who did get them), not those slant eyed Japs (who did get them) and definitely not darkies

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

They died fighting to recoup the southern states back into the union. Slavery was an issue, not the reason.

 

[scruffy]

It was the white man who freed the slaves.

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

It was the white man who freed the slaves.

Well, I suppose that would make sense; seeing as tho white men were the ones who decided to base their whole economic and social system on slavery and race.....so it should be them to fix the problem they created...




However, the ideology behind maintaining slavery and creating a racial caste system CANNOT take credit for dismantling slavery and that racial caste system....



For the conservatives of today who are so triggered about how wrong conservatives of the past were -- you don't have to hold that L with them....just acknowledge it was wrong and move forward....you look stupid otherwise...

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

I remember having visited both Gettysburg and Antietam battlefields in the 1980’s and how conspicuous it was that there were virtually no black visitors there.
Ungrateful Marxist dupes.

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

I remember having visited both Gettysburg and Antietam battlefields in the 1980’s and how conspicuous it was that there were virtually no black visitors there.
Ungrateful Marxist dupes.

Maybe they decided not to come on "Annual Revisionist Neo-Confederate History" day.....all of those confederate flags and people yelling "The south will rise again" is a turn off....but im sure yall had fun tho...

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Well, I suppose that would make sense; seeing as tho white men were the ones who decided to base their whole economic and social system on slavery and race.....so it should be them to fix the problem they created...




However, the ideology behind maintaining slavery and creating a racial caste system CANNOT take credit for dismantling slavery and that racial caste system....



For the conservatives of today who are so triggered about how wrong conservatives of the past were -- you don't have to hold that L with them....just acknowledge it was wrong and move forward....you look stupid otherwise...

It's not necessary to acknowledge slavery was wrong, because it goes without saying, and no conservatives today are for slavery.
Now your cousins in Africa today, well that's obviously a different matter since there's around nine million slaves on that continent.

 

[surada]

If the reparations crowd was actually interested in historical justice, it would go after those responsible...

The Confederate Slave Owners

The Black Tribes in Africa who rounded up other Black Africans and sold them to Jew owned slave ships and were doing so well before 1600.


One place where slaves were sold prior to 1600 is now called Ukraine...

Before 1600 they were sold in Recif, Brazil to the sugar plantations. No African slaves in Ukraine.

 

[Curried Goats]

Of course it is, but paying with your life is not cash, so of course it will never fly.

MSN

No.

 

[surada]

Slavery in Ukraine.

Slavery

www.encyclopediaofukraine.com

 

[EMH]

It was the white man who freed the slaves.

White male Republicans from the North.

 

[EMH]

Slavery in Ukraine.

Slavery

www.encyclopediaofukraine.com

A bit unclear where all those earlier slaves originated from. Ukraine has had slavery deluxe...

From the Black Sea .... by BOAT...

 

[EMH]

Before 1600 they were sold in Recif, Brazil to the sugar plantations. No African slaves in Ukraine.

They were sold to the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

 

[surada]

They were sold to the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

Nope. No African slaves were sold to Ukraine.