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This whole argument is so twisted and biased I'm not going to take the time .....
but ... I will say, Native Americans ended up being given 2% of the land in the US. A small part of what was promised but a lot more than what slaves were given.
And I am not saying any part of that was fair or what was done to either was justified.
Doesn't matter if they are and by the way everyone born here to citizen and legal immigrant parents are native Americans. We don't owe any of those alive today reparations for their dead ancestors. We weren't alive back then either. Our ancestors and their ancestors are all dead now and it's only a past that belongs to them and them only.
The debt owed to Native Americans is too large so it can't be discussed or considered. Stanley Kansas today is a suburb in one of the riches counties in the country. Originally a treaty was signed to give the land to a Shawnee Chief. Today over 60,000 white people live there and the average cost of a home is over $400,000.
They did name a street after him though. Perhaps that's the reparations America has given to Native people. Same with Black people as long as they name some streets after MLK, maybe some statues, a month of acknowledgement ...debt paid in full.
Reparations for everyone then........for much of history, Humans have been nightmarish to their fellow Humans, many times on a large scale.
I want reparation for the families of those soldiers, ordered to fight and get mutilated or slaughtered, in the very last hours of WW1, with an armistice signed and soon to go into effect.
I think a greater hypocrisy is elites talking about how much they care about freedom but we incarcerate more perceptual than any other country in the world.
And should blacks who had BLACK slave owners also get money?
How do we find out who their owner was?
Yes, because the federal government made owning black people legal. My family was owned by the Choctaw. If reparations are owed to me it's not from the Choctaw Trible but who ever gave them permission to own black people and allowed black people to be used to pay off debts with.
Last edited by thriftylefty; 11-26-2022 at 07:10 AM..
I'm against reparations but I sure don't base my politics, support of policy, and voting ballot on what a certain political party did almost 200 years ago.
The point that the OP is making is valid, especially coming from the party that is digging this up, yet was almost exclusively responsible for it. Additionally, all the anti-black laws in the southern states well after slavery were the doing of Democrats.
Heck, why not have Democrats and black race merchant groups demand the countries that bought them from black slave traders in Africa, pay the reparations, as America was not even a nation when those countries brought slaves to our shores.
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