Yes, because the Tuskegee descendants had residual physical effects (diagnosed illness) directly as a result of what was done to their ancestors. And rightly so they received compensation for it.
So.,ā¦now weāve found out who needs to be paying all the taxes?
You care about residual physical affects of that experimentā¦ what about economics and physical affect of slavery?
Isnāt this thread about reparations for slavery? What the hell are you talking about?
If judging by the responses in this thread from consā¦ I hope they do. Expose cons further.
The nonsense of reparations for slavery for people who were never slaves and only know about it from books or TV.
I am closer to the affects from slavery than you areā¦ itās like cons believe that once the fences were open in 1865ā¦ all things immediately got betterā¦
Once the signs above the āwhites onlyā fountains were torn down in 1965ā¦ all things immediately got better over nightā¦
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Did their treatment as slaves even violate the laws that existed? No. They had no claim even if they could have.
Whatever it was, it violates the principal of there being no ex post facto laws to decide they should have been paid now because we have these employment laws that they didnāt have.
Are you suggesting that we canāt apply 2019 morality standards to 1865 morality standards?
Even if monetary payment is a non starterā¦ I havenāt seen any con here suggest that slavery was an atrocity and we should have done something for repayment.
Thereās is a great PBS show call āFinding your rootsā. Last night one of the people going over their ancestry was Charlayne Hunter-Gault
She finds out sheās related to the master and the slaves. So, one of her ancestors oppressed another of her ancestors.
In fact if you watch the show, they do a lot of American Blacks and many of them are related to the master and the slaves of the plantation their family came from. Itās one of the reason so many slaves took on the names of their plantation masters.
So, do they pay reparation to themselves?
Last nightās show was particularly interesting because one of his American Black guests ( I forgot the name) was related to people on the last slave ship to reach the south. His remark was something like " I feel confused, angry and lucky at the same time"ā¦
Also should Islam give reparations to Europeans and Blacks for a 1500 years of perpetuating the slave trade in Africans and Europeans?
as soon as they hand out checks for being Black, Iām Black tooā¦
So a million dollar payout will make everything immediately better?
Hmm. Point me to where I said that it would?
Where has anyone said reparations are just for being black?
What other criteria is thereā¦ Iāll self identify with that too. And whoās going to check anyway
She was a descendant of slaves. The fact that the slave owner raped his property doesnāt make her ancestors any less of a slave.
Did this womanās slave ancestors get any inheritance from their slave owner? You know for being a blood relative?
Being a slave descendantā¦ clearly you havenāt even attempted to read the thread.
It has a lot to due with culture and where you are at.
I had to learn how to navigate the racial minefield early. I was raised by whites; from a cultural standpoint I canāt relate to the black community as much as I would like to because I havenāt really experienced what itās like to be black in the Western world outside of a few exceptions.
I just try to be understanding of peopleās viewpoints.
But sheās also related to the rapistā¦ Why is she rewarded for being related to slaves and not be punished for being related to a rapists?
I have no slave holding ancestors, so sheās more guilty than I amā¦
