Samm
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It’s almost like they don’t want us to get past it together … they want to swap places going forward.
I don’t think that’s the case for the vast majority of black people Samm. Like 99.9 percent.
Are there radicals who believe in that? Probably. There’s always the nuts.
But I don’t think it’s even a half of a percent.
Ive always said the time for reparations was immediately after the Civil War. There were perpetrators and victims who were alive.
The state failed to address it. Trying to do it now, 150+ years after the fact, only serves to open up old wounds on both sides.
It doesn’t progress racial harmony. It only makes it worse.
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Samm
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I agree (although I think the number is far greater than half a percent,) but my comment was not aimed at black people in general, it was aimed at the people (white, black, brown … whatever) who are obsessed with cleansing America of anything that they label offensive.
Seriously Samm?
Brown folks have not “earned” them?
Brown people helped BUILD this country and were then “forced out” from the American Dream.
An America that is united, peaceful, and prosperous is anathema to democrat success.
Their only hope of success is to keep us depressed, angry, divided, and dependent on gov’t to save us.
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The North was so hell bent on punishing The South where of course the vast Majority of Blacks Lived their “saviors” damned them to a hundred years of economic oppression and suffering.
Every freed Black Male should have been given 100.00, two mules, a good wagon fully outfitted with pioneering supplies, and 160 acres of arable land deeded to them in the west.
Few people even realize that it was in The West where Blacks fared extremely well in the first few decades of the post war era.
The Western Movies paid very short shrift to the Buffalo Soldiers, Scouts, and Black Cowboys of the era.
They also provided close to half of the labor force for the expansion of the railroad systems and a lot of really talented Black Engineers, Surveyors, and craftsman resulted.
Blacks were also central to the expansion of higher education in the west starting in Oklahoma.
So many missed opportunities but we are not responsible for any of them.
Samm
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As individuals? No they haven’t. You cannot take credit for what people have done before you were born.
Exactly. That should have been done but wasn’t.
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Right on the money. With every single point.
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Tens of thousands were given their “40 acres and a mule”. Then it was taken back.
Just a little factoid.
Okay, so I’m going to blame white people for once- white male leftists are probably the most hateful people on the planet. From abortion to socialism, they are most aggressive in their debates, and most likely to compensate for their emasculation by demeaning and dominating others. Much like a narcissist.
They don’t believe that people have the right to autonomy of thought, and instead, believe that you must agree with them or that you/your opinion is moronic. They might even resort to ad hominem, and outright bullying.
They hate people like me, a female Conservative. It screws up their minds, because they want to pretend that they are defending the “weaker” sex, yet since I disagree with them so drastically, it counters their thought process. And thus, the terms “internalized misogyny” and “pick me ass bitch” were born.
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I cannot “like” this enough.
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That shouldn’t have happened too late to correct that now however.
No slaves or slave owners still alive at this point.
It isn’t true either. Like many if not most of the other farmers in that era a great many Black Farmers simply didn’t make it and eventually ended up either walking away from their farms or selling them for little or nothing.
The entire economy of the south was utterly devastated for more than half a century following the war and didn’t fully recover until mechanization and chemical fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides came along in the post WWI era.
Many also simply left to go north because of more opportunity and a great many moved west for the same reason.
The South was utterly broken during reconstruction.
WWII brought the greatest change with programs like the WPA and TVA and with the buildup of our military bases starting in the late thirties as WWII became inevitable.
The truth is it was never fully implemented and most lost their lands later for the same reasons most farms failed in that era, the economy of the south was completely destroyed for half a century.
Right in the well researched article it states that 40,000 freed slaves were settled on the land. Sounds like a damn good start.
The only reason it wasn’t fully implemented is because Andrew Johnson overturned the order in the fall of 1865. There wasn’t even time for them to fail before the land was taken back.
If we’re to believe the census there were in excess of 1.5 million slaves living in the south at the end of the war.
DMK
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Meh, I’m tired of hearing how hard being black in America is.
The grass is always greener on the other side, until you have to mow it.
No one promised anyone a rose garden. We all have our issues and obstacles to overcome. There is no rose garden for anyone.
You either do it or you don’t.
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