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If it were to happen, nobody but black (and biracial) people should qualify. He has less African DNA than most black people have white. No.
A freshly naturalized citizen from Nigeria is about as black as you can get, but they and their ancestors were never enslaved in the United States. What does being black have to do with it?
7. If any one buy from the son or the slave of another man, without witnesses or a contract, silver or gold, a male or female slave, an ox or a sheep, an ass or anything, or if he take it in charge, he is considered a thief and shall be put to death.
15. If any one take a male or female slave of the court, or a male or female slave of a freed man, outside the city gates, he shall be put to death.
16. If any one receive into his house a runaway male or female slave of the court, or of a freedman, and does not bring it out at the public proclamation of the major domus, the master of the house shall be put to death.
17. If any one find runaway male or female slaves in the open country and bring them to their masters, the master of the slaves shall pay him two shekels of silver.
18. If the slave will not give the name of the master, the finder shall bring him to the palace; a further investigation must follow, and the slave shall be returned to his master.
20. If the slave that he caught run away from him, then shall he swear to the owners of the slave, and he is free of all blame.
116. If the prisoner die in prison from blows or maltreatment, the master of the prisoner shall convict the merchant before the judge. If he was a free-born man, the son of the merchant shall be put to death; if it was a slave, he shall pay one-third of a mina of gold, and all that the master of the prisoner gave he shall forfeit.
118. If he give a male or female slave away for forced labor, and the merchant sublease them, or sell them for money, no objection can be raised.
119. If any one fail to meet a claim for debt, and he sell the maid servant who has borne him children, for money, the money which the merchant has paid shall be repaid to him by the owner of the slave and she shall be freed.
129. If a man's wife be surprised (in flagrante delicto) with another man, both shall be tied and thrown into the water, but the husband may pardon his wife and the king his slaves.
146. If a man take a wife and she give this man a maid-servant as wife and she bear him children, and then this maid assume equality with the wife: because she has borne him children her master shall not sell her for money, but he may keep her as a slave, reckoning her among the maid-servants.
175. If a State slave or the slave of a freed man marry the daughter of a free man, and children are born, the master of the slave shall have no right to enslave the children of the free.
176. If, however, a State slave or the slave of a freed man marry a man's daughter, and after he marries her she bring a dowry from a father's house, if then they both enjoy it and found a household, and accumulate means, if then the slave die, then she who was free born may take her dowry, and all that her husband and she had earned; she shall divide them into two parts, one-half the master for the slave shall take, and the other half shall the free-born woman take for her children. If the free-born woman had no gift she shall take all that her husband and she had earned and divide it into two parts; and the master of the slave shall take one-half and she shall take the other for her children.
199. If he put out the eye of a man's slave, or break the bone of a man's slave, he shall pay one-half of its value.
205. If the slave of a freed man strike the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off.
217. If he be the slave of some one, his owner shall give the physician two shekels.
219. If a physician make a large incision in the slave of a freed man, and kill him, he shall replace the slave with another slave.
223. If he were a slave his owner shall pay the physician two shekels.
226. If a barber, without the knowledge of his master, cut the sign of a slave on a slave not to be sold, the hands of this barber shall be cut off.
227. If any one deceive a barber, and have him mark a slave not for sale with the sign of a slave, he shall be put to death, and buried in his house. The barber shall swear: "I did not mark him wittingly," and shall be guiltless.
231. If it kill a slave of the owner, then he shall pay slave for slave to the owner of the house.
252. If he kill a man's slave, he shall pay one-third of a mina.
278. If any one buy a male or female slave, and before a month has elapsed the benu-disease be developed, he shall return the slave to the seller, and receive the money which he had paid.
279. If any one buy a male or female slave, and a third party claim it, the seller is liable for the claim.
280. If while in a foreign country a man buy a male or female slave belonging to another of his own country; if when he return home the owner of the male or female slave recognize it: if the male or female slave be a native of the country, he shall give them back without any money.
281. If they are from another country, the buyer shall declare the amount of money paid therefor to the merchant, and keep the male or female slave.
282. If a slave say to his master: "You are not my master," if they convict him his master shall cut off his ear.
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A city or two are already considering it, but there is a lot of detail to work out. For example one accountant that I work with is Black, but came here from Nigeria 3 years ago, with no history of slavery in her family tree. Then there are the Blacks working in tech at places like Microsoft and Amazon making over $200k, they don't need the money, and also, are proof that they can make it in this country. Also the professional athletes making millions, and then how do they prove that the Latin Americans and recent well paid people from India, who are darker than African Americans are not eligible?
My wife is an Irish Immigrant and her people suffered like slaves so she should get reparations.
If there is money in it I will self identify as a black guy. I like old school rap so there must be some black in me and unlike Kamala Harris I know that Tupac is dead. LOL
Who are they to tell me I'm not black? If a guy can go in the ladies room, if a boy can compete against girls in school sports if they can tells us there is nothing wrong with Biden then there is my in.
You could be "black on the inside" like Fredo Coumo.
My g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-grandparents were slaves in Egypt. Where’s my money?
Are you sure ? The hebrews of that time were mostly of African ancestry with semitic paternal lineage. If you're Ashkenazi, aren't you most likely a descendant of central eastern European converts ? That's where the word Ashkenazi is from after all, Scythia (Eastern Europe/Central Asia).
Many of us have direct decedents that died fighting to end slavery and preserve the Union! We should get something.....
News flash, that war didn't end it --- slavery is a multi million dollar operation today. The governments should actually end it, before doling out money for people effected by it.
Canada calls it “visible minority”, for non whites. So if your not visibly black, you shouldn’t be considered for reparations. Megan Markle would be on the borderline. The black lineage would have to be American in its majority.
Many of us have direct decedents that died fighting to end slavery and preserve the Union! We should get something.....
I know you're not being serious, but I just wanted to clarify something--you must mean ancestors. Otherwise you would have your children or grandchildren old enough to have fought in the Civil War!
I don't believe anybody should get reparations. There's no way to figure out how to make it fair and even if they tried to make it fair, all it would do is cause resentment from those who didn't get reparations. We would be further divided. It would be better just to move along and make things fair in other ways. Giving money away won't fix what was done. Slavery was atrocious.
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