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[Sapphire]

I think a big part of what puts people off (non-black) from reparations is the fact that most people bring it to the table as a means that ALL non-blacks should pay to black Americans. I think we could get a more strong voice and movement if we target the right people. Not all white people in America owned slaves. It was the rich that did. It was the ones that owned farm land that did. These are the families that have had generational wealth off the backs of black American's ancestors and these are the people who should be paying out those reparations. The Biden family owned slaves. The Bush family owned slaves. It seems most wealthy politicians had family that owned slaves. A lot of corporations were started off the backs of slaves and those owners had plenty of them on their land. These are the same people that are known for evading taxation. The same people that are known for using the system to advance. The same people that want to keep black people in poverty.

I am a fairly realistic and rational person. I know black people have never been treated fairly by the system but I also know who runs this system and who benefits the most from it. The families that have hoarded their wealth for generations all had a lot of slaves and most of them DID NOT want to give them up.

If we target the people most at fault, the ones that benefited the most, I think we stand a better chance at actually getting our people what they are owed. I come from a family of immigrants so I won't be owed anything but I want the families that suffered for decades and still suffer to be owed what they were promised.

Thoughts?

 

[Trillfate]

Well reparations is a claim that will be paid by the government, so every tax payer technically will be paying us, just like our taxes go towards Ukrainians and illegals. Furthermore if you're white you benefited from slavery in 1 way or another, whether they realize it or not, so....

 

[Prof_Cos]

Reparations is a debt owed to the descendants of black Americans. Just like our government paid reparations for Japanese Americans and Jewish Americans, it will come from the U.S. government. They got the funding...

 

[johnOkillens]

When you say “WE stand a better chance at getting OUR people what they are owed”, then say ”I come from a family of immigrants”, that makes no sense.
OUR people are people descended from American chattel slavery.
Our ancestors were NOT immigrants.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

 

[Rollie Forbes]

"The Big Payback" episode of Atlanta (a great tv show, check it out) deals with this very subject. Find and watch the episode, and see how the white characters deal with being subjected to pay reparations to the descendants of their family's slaves.

 

[DaBeast]

I think it'd be a good start to focus on the rich elites who probably have some relatives who were slave owners. I'm sure there's a high chance that a lot of these rich families have ties to slavery and owning slaves. Especially if they've held onto their wealth since the days of slavery. There is bound to be a few celebs who probably have a really shady family history. I think they should be responsible for reparations, or at least the start of them.

 

[Supabrett]

Nah the government owe us that. It's going to be a insane court battle just for the government, imagine having to sue countless individual families.

 

[ART]

I think it'd be a good start to focus on the rich elites who probably have some relatives who were slave owners. I'm sure there's a high chance that a lot of these rich families have ties to slavery and owning slaves. Especially if they've held onto their wealth since the days of slavery. There is bound to be a few celebs who probably have a really shady family history. I think they should be responsible for reparations, or at least the start of them.

The government (local, state, federal) and any of the elite and institutions that were built from slavery (numerous universities, banks, hospitals, prisons, Wall Street, corporations, etc) all owe us reparations. Though the government and its branches need to be focused on the most.

 

[Stan Zero]

I second starting it with the gov, banks, and other such institutions that have hurt us in the past.

It would be nice to get reparations from those families that supported slavery back in that time, but it'd be tough to get them and they may bring up some ethical issue like them not being responsible for their relatives past actions.

So yeah, starting with the establishments that kept us down, would be the way to go. Maybe even include political groups as well.

 

[Jay]

If we target the people most at fault, the ones that benefited the most, I think we stand a better chance at actually getting our people what they are owed. I come from a family of immigrants so I won't be owed anything but I want the families that suffered for decades and still suffer to be owed what they were promised.

Everyone benefitted from the system of slavery here in the USA. The reason the country is an economic powerhouse is directly due to hundreds of years of slaver labor. There’s a reason why British came here after 1776 instead of to Jamaica, there’s a reason why Portuguese came here instead of to Angola, or French to Senegal and it’s because it was rich AF off slavery. Everyone has to pay and that’s why it needs to come right from the federal government.

If the feds need to recoup their losses they can reach out to the families and corporations they were in bed with in the whole slavery debacle.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Nah the government owe us that. It's going to be a insane court battle just for the government, imagine having to sue countless individual families.

Not only that, but some white folks have squandered the bag. I don't want to track down the white family who owned my ancestors.only to find out that they don't have adequate assets.

 

[Mrs. BLACKRADICAL]

I think the timing of this post is disrespectful. MLK said " We are coming to DC for our check." Period. We should not and most of us do not care how poor whites feel about it because though they may not have owned, they benefited from the owning. I don't think we have the time for dual allegiances.

 

[ProMoatBlack]

This video sums your original sentiment and how we feel about. Spoiler Alert we don't give a damn

 

[RCNAL]

The very valid argument I've always heard and can't be countered and others have alluded to is the American government allowed slavery. Everyone then and up to now benefited from that.

After WW2, everyone said Germany had to pay. The NAZI government did the holocaust. The government after WW2 were not Nazis. These were made up of people who were opposed to the Nazis, typically called the Adenauer era because he was the Chancellor from 1949 to 1963. The US supported the payment of reparations from a Government that had NOTHING to do with the Holocaust. In fact, Konrad Adenauer was a victim of the Nazis, his bank account froze and dismissed as mayor of Cologne. But he and his party paid reparations. So, if a government who had nothing to do with the Holocaust paid reparations, what argument do whites (and others) have from this form of government that hasn't changed since the country's founding?

And for those who say "I didn't own slaves and only 5% of whites in the south had slaves, why should I pay in my tax dollars". Blacks didn't intern the Japanese or engage war on the natives either, but black tax dollars went to it. In fact, black tax dollars went to natives that enslaved them.

There is no argument white folks (or others) can come up with not to pay FBAs reparations. There are precedents already. I had this discussion with a white boy once, an alt right one from the south, and he got shut down and changed the subject.

Lastly, the US government paid reparations to the slave owners. To add salt to the wounds. These are counter arguments ALL blacks should be employing if they need to defend reparations for FBAs.

 

[Sapphire]

When you say “WE stand a better chance at getting OUR people what they are owed”, then say ”I come from a family of immigrants”, that makes no sense.
OUR people are people descended from American chattel slavery.
Our ancestors were NOT immigrants.

My parents weren't brought here through slavery. That is what I am mentioning so I would not qualify for reparations. My family has not even been in America for 60 years.

 

[Mrs. BLACKRADICAL]

My parents weren't brought here through slavery. That is what I am mentioning so I would not qualify for reparations. My family has not even been in America for 60 years.

Then why does this thread even exist? You should be getting on code with what the people from the soil are saying and if not then you shouldn't really be saying anything.

 

[ProMoatBlack]

This is why people throw that tether around so strongly. People come in our circles claiming to be a part of our struggles only to show and prove themselves to be dissenters to our cause. If you know you are not from the soil how dare you attempt to speak on behalf of our oppressors. That's that tether shit. Please cease and desist with the bull. If you not us dont attempt to speak on us or for us.

 

[The Haze Of Our Lives]

I think a big part of what puts people off (non-black) from reparations is the fact that most people bring it to the table as a means that ALL non-blacks should pay to black Americans. I think we could get a more strong voice and movement if we target the right people. Not all white people in America owned slaves. It was the rich that did. It was the ones that owned farm land that did. These are the families that have had generational wealth off the backs of black American's ancestors and these are the people who should be paying out those reparations. The Biden family owned slaves. The Bush family owned slaves. It seems most wealthy politicians had family that owned slaves. A lot of corporations were started off the backs of slaves and those owners had plenty of them on their land. These are the same people that are known for evading taxation. The same people that are known for using the system to advance. The same people that want to keep black people in poverty.

I am a fairly realistic and rational person. I know black people have never been treated fairly by the system but I also know who runs this system and who benefits the most from it. The families that have hoarded their wealth for generations all had a lot of slaves and most of them DID NOT want to give them up.

If we target the people most at fault, the ones that benefited the most, I think we stand a better chance at actually getting our people what they are owed. I come from a family of immigrants so I won't be owed anything but I want the families that suffered for decades and still suffer to be owed what they were promised.

Thoughts?

I dont understand why YT ppl get upset by this running debt that is clearly OWED. True all YT ppl didn't' own slaves but they "ALL" benefitted from this WS system put in place. We need to add "Tax Exempt" for both property and paper funds be enacted.

Any YT person that you know start asking them what they think about "This Government" (Not Yt ppl) paying reparations to FBA/ADOS. If they are still opposed and somewhat angry/offended? Just state "Oh you're a ANTI BLACK RACIST" and walk away. Watch the Splaining start, just keep it moving.

 

[GwynShivers]

I dont understand why YT ppl get upset by this running debt that is clearly OWED. True all YT ppl didn't' own slaves but they "ALL" benefitted from this WS system put in place. We need to add "Tax Exempt" for both property and paper funds be enacted.

Any YT person that you know start asking then what they think about "This Government" (Not Yt ppl) paying reparations to FBA/ADOS. If they are still opposed and somewhat angry/offended? Just state "Oh you're a ANTI BLACK RACIST" and walk away. Watch the Splaining start, just keep it moving.

It wasn't only just rich whites either, some rich Latinos & Indians took part in slave ownership & slave trading as well.

 

[The Haze Of Our Lives]

It wasn't only just rich whites either, some rich Latinos & Indians took part in slave ownership & slave trading as well.

Then they too have to #CutCheckChecks. I'd take stakes in Casinos and Taco shell companies and wouldn't feel any guilt whatsoever.

 

[ProMoatBlack]

Then they too have to #CutCheckChecks. I'd take stakes in Casinos and Taco shell companies and wouldn't feel any guilt whatsoever.

Oh yeah I need back pay from the revenue from all those casinos and shell companies. We need all of our paper!!!

 

[ART]

Any YT person that you know start asking them what they think about "This Government" (Not Yt ppl) paying reparations to FBA/ADOS. If they are still opposed and somewhat angry/offended? Just state "Oh you're a ANTI BLACK RACIST" and walk away. Watch the Splaining start, just keep it moving.

And watch all the other anti-Black racists of all races chime in the discussions (both online and offline) and fiercely jump to their defense as they vilify and gang up on you to make you out to this radical, extremist, hateful, racist, divisive, bad ole Black Supremacist bratty ingrate that always plays victim, doesn't work hard enough, and only wants handouts.

They got each other's back and they will do everything to:

* use DARVO tactics against you
(example: But you're racist too, you said racist things before. If anything you're the real racist),

* make excuses on why Black people deserve nothing
(example: Black people already have civil rights and Affirmative action, y'all commit the most crime, you have welfare and free college and a Black President Obama and diversity so that's reparations)

and

* put you in your place
(example: you're not special, no one is, everybody suffers and goes through stuff, I went through stuff [insert sob story here], so learn to be grateful and stop making everything about race, just because I don't agree with reparations doesn't mean were racist, we are just telling you to stop complaining about everything, and let it go and stop holding onto the past)

as they pat each other on the back.

 

[ART]

Another excuse they love to use against us is the "you were never a slave, and my family never owned slaves."

They'll claim white and non-Black people (especially descendants of slaves) actually deserve reparations while spitting in our faces and saying that we Black people don't deserve reparations at all (even though white plantation and slave owners got reparations) not because "the Africans sold Black people into slavery, go ask them" (that's their favorite cop-out), because simply off the basis that they deem us to be utterly inferior, something evil, savage-like, and non-human.

 

[GwynShivers]

Another excuse they love to use against us is the "you were never a slave, and my family never owned slaves."

They'll claim white and non-Black people (especially descendants of slaves) actually deserve reparations while spitting in our faces and saying that we Black people don't deserve reparations at all (even though white plantation and slave owners got reparations) not because "the Africans sold Black people into slavery, go ask them" (that's their favorite cop-out), because simply off the basis that they deem us to be utterly inferior, something evil, savage-like, and non-human.

We aren't descendants of monkeys or cavemen, THEY ARE! We're not utterly inferior, evil, savage like or non-human, THEY ARE!
We're TOTALLY THE OPPOSITE! Do we wreak havoc, destruction & disease everywhere we go? HELL NO!
Do we go around trying to deem perverted behavior as THE NEW NORM? HELL NO!
Do we go around killing Black people at will, with no consequences? HELL MUTHA F*CKIN' NO! I've lots more bastardizing of these demon Casper ass muthas, but I'm beginning to become angry & like The Hulk, you really don't wanna make me angry! 🤬

 

[ART]

We aren't descendants of monkeys or cavemen, THEY ARE! We're not utterly inferior, evil, savage like or non-human, THEY ARE!
We're TOTALLY THE OPPOSITE! Do we wreak havoc, destruction & disease everywhere we go? HELL NO!
Do we go around trying to deem perverted behavior as THE NEW NORM? HELL NO!
Do we go around killing Black people at will, with no consequences? HELL MUTHA F*CKIN' NO! I've lots more bastardizing of these demon Casper ass muthas, but I'm beginning to become angry & like The Hulk, you really don't wanna make me angry! 🤬

Whites as a collective are worse than bullies. Imagine someone being obsessively jealous of and threatened by you for whatever reason, and not only do they become your primary bully, but they are also able to effectively turn everyone against you with their power, charm, social status, lies, rumors, and slander. Now you are the most unpopular and hated person in the entire town to the point that no one will even hire, hang around or trust you. You become an undesirable cancer to them to where even property values will decline if you were to even walk past them. You are forced to accept your societal fate of worthlessness to that of a leper or a pariah.

They couldn't care less if you live or die (as long as you aren't in their sight or don't surpass them in any way) and don't even want you to exist. And whenever people out there are like "hey, I'll befriend, take pics with, give $5 to or say hi to this leper", then you are pressured, shamed, and expected to forever be grateful and indebted to these "kind souls" because in their eyes, you really deserve nothing. This is what is and has been happening Black people on a massive scale across the entire planet for far, far too long.

 

[Finesse]

Would be nice to see slave owners families pay up, but we all know that's not going to happen. But I do think we could make some headway in the government to get some sort of reparations started. They could for sure do more to get those reparations started for us.

It's not like I need a ton of money, just something to give back to us for what our relatives and ancestors went through. Didn't they give some reparations to Native American Indians? Why not us too?