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Te-nehisi coats, cory booker, danny glover. What do these names have in common? They were all interviewed by the house today in a panel on American reparations for antebellum slavery. In the year 2019, we are debating whether Americans should pay reparations for slavery in the 1800s. The subject is touchy and people on both sides of the aisle are passionate about their view of monetary compensation for the enslavement of the ancestors of not only most black americans, but millions of Americans of other races as well (There are actually quite a few white Americans and some Hispanic Americans who had black African slave ancestors in america). Today's exploratory panel comes only a few months after candidates such as Elizabeth Warren, Tulsi Gabbard, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker threw their support behind the move, but it is still uncertain how the government would make reparations work, assuming they ever actually instated such a policy. Who would the money go to? Who has to pay? How much money would the US give? These are difficult questions with no easy answers and everyone is jumping into the debate. I now turn the floor over to the rest of you. What are your opinions on reparations in america? HOw would you make it happen if you support reparations? Who would be eligible? when would the reparations occur? I'm sure the sparks will really fly in this debate and the only rule I'm setting as the ground rule is that I'm setting no rules. Let the conflict, I mean discourse, begin.

Who will pay for these reparations, who gets them? How much?

None of that matters because reparations are fucking stupid in this context.

Loben The 2nd wrote:Who will pay for these reparations, who gets them? How much?

None of that matters because reparations are fucking stupid in this context.

I’d assume the federal government would pay it. Though it’s a silly thing anyway

Thermodolia wrote:

Loben The 2nd wrote:Who will pay for these reparations, who gets them? How much?

None of that matters because reparations are fucking stupid in this context.

I’d assume the federal government would pay it. Though it’s a silly thing anyway

And where are they getting this money from?

Loben The 2nd wrote:

Thermodolia wrote:I’d assume the federal government would pay it. Though it’s a silly thing anyway

And where are they getting this money from?

Our taxes?

Where's my check at?

And anyway, who do they give it to? Full? Mixed? All? Anyone who's even close to woahvickky in 1% blackness? How?

Thermodolia wrote:

Loben The 2nd wrote:And where are they getting this money from?

Our taxes?

Which includes the taxes of the decedents of slaves, people who’s families never owned slaves etc etc.

Where's my check at?

And anyway, who do they give it to? Full? Mixed? All? Anyone who's even close to woahvickky in 1% blackness? How?

Loben The 2nd wrote:

Thermodolia wrote:Our taxes?

Which includes the taxes of the decedents of slaves, people who’s families never owned slaves etc etc.

I really doubt it would include the taxes of decedents.

Loben The 2nd wrote:

Thermodolia wrote:Our taxes?

Which includes the taxes of the decedents of slaves, people who’s families never owned slaves etc etc.

I'll be sure to remember this next time conservatives start throwing around collective guilt.

Necroghastia wrote:

Loben The 2nd wrote:
Which includes the taxes of the decedents of slaves, people who’s families never owned slaves etc etc.

I really doubt it would include the taxes of decedents.

How do you determine who is a descendant and how do you exempt them? And what if your family was neither slave nor master? My mom's side of the family probably has some African slave ancestors in its past and dad's side was in the white valley of Lebanon during the 1800s

Rojava Free State wrote:

Necroghastia wrote:
I really doubt it would include the taxes of decedents.

How do you determine who is a descendant and how do you exempt them? And what if your family was neither slave nor master? My mom's side of the family probably has some African slave ancestors in its past and dad's side was in the white valley of Lebanon during the 1800s

Loben said decedents, not descendants

Necroghastia wrote:

Rojava Free State wrote:
How do you determine who is a descendant and how do you exempt them? And what if your family was neither slave nor master? My mom's side of the family probably has some African slave ancestors in its past and dad's side was in the white valley of Lebanon during the 1800s

Loben said decedents, not descendants

Right, I'm not a decendent of a slave, just a potential descendant

Necroghastia wrote:

Loben The 2nd wrote:
Which includes the taxes of the decedents of slaves, people who’s families never owned slaves etc etc.

I really doubt it would include the taxes of decedents.

That would be absolutely silly and against so many laws

The South Falls wrote:Where's my check at?

And anyway, who do they give it to? Full? Mixed? All? Anyone who's even close to woahvickky in 1% blackness? How?

Right. If slaves are getting reparations where’s my check for the crimes committed against the natives?

Since I was never a slave owner nor am I a descendant of a slave owner, I owe the descendants of slaves nothing.

Necroghastia wrote:

Rojava Free State wrote:
How do you determine who is a descendant and how do you exempt them? And what if your family was neither slave nor master? My mom's side of the family probably has some African slave ancestors in its past and dad's side was in the white valley of Lebanon during the 1800s

Loben said decedents, not descendants

F.

LiberNovusAmericae wrote:Since I was never a slave owner nor am I a descendant of a slave owner, I owe the descendants of slaves nothing.

In 2019, that's considered a racist thought

Rojava Free State wrote:

LiberNovusAmericae wrote:Since I was never a slave owner nor am I a descendant of a slave owner, I owe the descendants of slaves nothing.

In 2019, that's considered a racist thought

How?

Loben The 2nd wrote:

Rojava Free State wrote:
In 2019, that's considered a racist thought

How?

Because according to the forces of blacktivism, you owe them reparations for what people that kinda looked like you did to their ancestors in 1856. It's ridiculous but being an SJW is about thinking with emotions and not with logic

I understand why some would feel like reparations are necessary, but nobody who was actually a slave is alive today, so you're basically just giving people free money because their ancestors were treated poorly. Reparations shouldn't be a thing for events happening that far in the past.

Rojava Free State wrote:

Loben The 2nd wrote:How?

Because according to the forces of blacktivism, you owe them reparations for what people that kinda looked like you did to their ancestors in 1856. It's ridiculous but being an SJW is about thinking with emotions and not with logic

This^^

LiberNovusAmericae wrote:Since I was never a slave owner nor am I a descendant of a slave owner, I owe the descendants of slaves nothing.

75% of my family is German, Irish, Jewish or some other Europeans and hasn’t been in the US longer than the 1850s. 10% has been in the US since before the revolution but they where poor as fuck, and the last bits are all Native Americans.

What an utter waste of taxpayer money.