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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
and to whom are the payments going to be made

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If memory serves, blacks also owned slaves in early America....so do they have to pay too, or do they get paid because they're also black? The whole topic is stupid on steroids, which is exactly what I'd expect the current crop of leftist candidates to be spending their time on.

What’s the point; democrats already control the vast majority of the black vote? How does this further their cause?

What if I’m 1/2 black, do I get 1/2 a check? Or does my white 1/2 have to write a check to my black 1/2?

Suffice it to say, I’ve never owned any slaves, & never would approve of anyone owning slaves. I’m not paying shit to nobody for no reason. I don’t feel guilty (no white guilt). I would however pitch in some cash for any descendent of slaves who thinks they wanna go back to Africa & stay.

I suspect a reparations bill would never make it to a president. But if one did, I suspect the normally lying and pandering nitwits at that racist get together would sign it.

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Originally posted by Ryanp225:
Something bad happened to my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Now give me money!

Seen from this angle, I guess I need to apply for my reparations as well.

My great-great-great-? grandfather fought for the North, was captured and tortured by his captors. They hung him by his thumbs so long that his arms were no longer functional. He had to be fed by someone else, bathed, shaved, etc.

So how about his reparations? Damn, with all the accumulated unpaid interest my whole clan could retire.

If that happens, and there are no reparations for my religiously persecuted ancestors, I'm stopping paying my income taxes.

I could see this work.
Show proof that your ancestors were slaves.
Show proof that you have been a USA citizen since birth,your ancestors were also, dating back to there slavery.
Accept a $50,000. payment and a one way first class ticket back to wherever your ancestors came from.
Your signed receipt would renounce your USA citizenship and ALL claims going forward.
AMF!

It doesn't matter, because with each passing day, the ridiculous shit that comes out of their mouths puts the commies farther away from the White House. They had better prepare themselves for Donald Trump being POTUS until January 20, 2025.

And when they get their collective ass handed to them late next year, they'll be mystified and claim a conspiracy- Russian agents or maybe Martians or some such shit.

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Well, I want my 40 acres and a mule, back..

Well...it depends on just WHERE the 40 acres is located.

Liberia?

Not Libera, I was thinking at the bottom of the ocean, the moon...

If you take the cost of 40 acres back then and adjust for inflation they'd get more for the mule.

My g-g-grandfather fought for the Union. He was shot, captured and sent to the extermination camp of Andersonville. Later, it was clear he suffered from PTSD. A brother served, was invalided out but later returned to fight until the end of the war.
My mother’s parents immigrated here in the early 1900’s.
None of them were involved in slavery or profited from it. Any suggestion they did is racist.

The cost of the war?
“The approximately 10,455 military engagements, some devastating to human life and some nearly bloodless, plus naval clashes, accidents, suicides, sicknesses, murders, and executions resulted in total casualties of 1,094,453 during the Civil War. The Federals lost 110,100 killed in action and mortally wounded, and another 224,580 to disease. The Confederates lost approximately 94,000 as a result of battle and another 164,000 to disease. Even if one survived a wound, any projectile that hit bone in either an arm or a leg almost invariably necessitated amputation. The best estimate of Federal army personnel wounded is 275,175; naval personnel wounded, 2,226. Surviving Confederate records indicate 194,026 wounded.
In dollars and cents, the U.S. government estimated Jan. 1863 that the war was costing $2.5 million daily. A final official estimate in 1879 totaled $6,190,000,000. The Confederacy spent perhaps $2,099,808,707. By 1906 another $3.3 billion already had been spent by the U.S. government on Northerners' pensions and other veterans' benefits for former Federal soldiers. Southern states and private philanthropy provided benefits to the Confederate veterans. The amount spent on benefits eventually well exceeded the war's original cost.”

Then there is inflation: “In other words, $100 in 1860 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $3,062.67 in 2019, a difference of $2,962.67 over 159 years.”

Reparations? First, subtract the cost of the war, and the cost in human lives.

They would sell their souls and their mommas too!

I'm pretty sure that in my families history, some of them were probably slaves of the Romans, Greeks, Celts, Britons, etc. Do I get free money, too?

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Originally posted by Arty:
I'm pretty sure that in my families history, some of them were probably slaves of the Romans, Greeks, Celts, Britons, etc. Do I get free money, too?

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https://www.globalresearch.ca/...n-white-slaves/31076

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Irish slaves were cheaper.

If I self identified as black, would I get my money?

I completely agree. Any living person that was enslaved by another within the time of the founding of the United States until 1865 will receive forty acres and a mule.

My people were slaves in Egypt. Thousands of years ago, I can't wait to see the interest on my reparations check. Also as refuges here in the 1940's, we can't be held responsible for the crimes of the people who share the same skin color as me, or the black slave owners/sellers who do not share my complexion.

I will happily accept $10 reparations compounded at average inflation rate for 4,000 years.

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Originally posted by Arty:
I'm pretty sure that in my families history, some of them were probably slaves of the Romans, Greeks, Celts, Britons, etc. Do I get free money, too?

What skin color are you? If you're white, or a version of white, you're outta luck.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
It doesn't matter, because with each passing day, the ridiculous shit that comes out of their mouths puts the commies farther away from the White House. They had better prepare themselves for Donald Trump being POTUS until January 20, 2025.

And when they get their collective ass handed to them late next year, they'll be mystified and claim a conspiracy- Russian agents or maybe Martians or some such shit.

On "policy" alone, Trump wins in 2020. The insanity, from reparations, various forms of free shit, and all of them endorsing a new ban on semiautomatic firearms, means that only the very far left is in play for the Democrats.

Their problem in 2016, was primarily that Hillary Clinton was Hillary Clinton, even before you get to policy.

In 2020, the hard left turn, has long abandoned the actual core of the Democratic Party..... Labor.

Currently, the American working man, has no support from the Democrats. The Democrats talk to coastal elites. The left thinks it is smarter than, and societally above, the very voting bloc that has so long buoyed it.

Trump 2020 is all but assured, because of the insanity from the left. And that's fine. I don't think they can pull it to the middle, because the primaries will be a "who is the purest SJW" fight.