(06-29-2019, 09:52 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(06-29-2019, 09:42 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: This is just a question, I truly don't know the answer. Has Germany ever paid reparations to the descendants of the Jewish families that were exterminated by the Nazis? That was a whole lot more recent than American slavery.

Yes, Germany paid heavily for a long time. You can read about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_...st_victims

The difference being the reparations were set fairly shortly after the Holocaust... as opposed to generations later.

Also... the gov't of Germany paid the gov't of Israel over 14 years or something.

Not exactly apples to apples.

No one alive today was even remotely affected by slavery. And tax payers today shouldn't be on the hook for something some people's ancestors were responsible for over 100 years ago.

Reparations is just more of "give me what you have because I feel I deserve it"
Which is an asinine thought process of so many Americans.

Long gone are the days of "give me what I'm due because I've earned it"
Just being born gives so many people this idea that they deserve or are owed something.

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(07-01-2019, 01:27 PM)Predator Wrote:

(07-01-2019, 09:31 AM)rollerjag Wrote: To equate the burden of paying taxes to what slaves endured is preposterous. One doesn't have to experience slavery personally to understand the vast difference between the two.

Your reading comprehension is what is preposterous. 

I'd be glad to pay slaves reparations, unfortunately the last person to claim to be a slave died in 1971. He also claimed to be the preposterous age of 124. 

No one alive even had parents who were slaves and only a handful of extremely elderly people could even possibly make the claim their grandparents were born under slavery.

The truth is most African Americans are 5-6 generations or more removed from slavery, and if you want to mention Jim Crow laws, most of the people who experienced that are also dead.

Ain't nobody trying to hear that.

And you only need to look to the African Americans that think reparations are idiotic and not needed to know it's just a political talking point from the left and another tool they use to claim anyone who disagrees with them is racist.

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