Black Lives Matters announces agenda, and it's a doozy!

[Urban hermit]

Sharecroppers had a hard life, still do but they are free to move on to someplace else. Something the slave didn't have.

Nobody in thier right mind would deny that slaves had a raw deal, I know I would never want to experience what they went through.
There is no singular act that can compensate victims of a great evil generations after they have past.
The truth is not all Americans of African decent are decendants of American slaves, some migrated to the US many years after that peculiar institution was dismantled by the years of efforts by others, many more are of mixed race marriges.
One can only imagine the payday awaiting lawyers and accountants if repatriations took place.
The disturbing thing to me is the assumption that we alive today are somehow entitled to reimbursement for the sufferings of people they never knew and have nothing in common with other than some measure of DNA.

[101combatvet]

Sharecroppers had a hard life, still do but they are free to move on to someplace else. Something the slave didn't have.

Sometimes not having a place to go is better.

[Half Pint John]

Nor was it for white sharecroppers.

Sharecroppers had a hard life, still do but they are free to move on to someplace else. Something the slave didn't have.

[Pruitt]

The Freed Slaves never did get that forty acres and a mule.. Maybe that is what part of these reparations are for?

Pruitt

[Urban hermit]

Can we deduct welfare payments and equal opertunity scholarships and business grants and forty acers and a mule from the bottom line?

[101combatvet]

I believe that the implication is that no wealth or opportunity to earn wealth existed for slaves.

Nor was it for white sharecroppers.

[101combatvet]

Most of these people would be dead within a month if the system they hate collapsed.

No where does it say that they are giving up government assistance.

[101combatvet]

Did they not receive reparations from Germany? Land from the UK? Who was better compensated after a travesty, crime against humanity? The land deal was handled terribly, but they obviously deserved the reparations. As did slaves after it was abolished, but they received nothing because they were still viewed in a negative light.

You are comparing the holocaust with slavery? Where were the death camps in the US? Where were exterminations conducted?

[101combatvet]

So now it's official repatriations!



http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bla...nda/ar-BBv6IJ7

Sounds like Farrakhan, they can have all this in Africa.

[Gixxer86g]

They don't just want reparations for the past.

2. Reparations for past and continuing harms.

What are these continuing harms?

[Half Pint John]

So now it's official repatriations!



http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bla...nda/ar-BBv6IJ7

Sound like a racist declaration of war.

[Urban hermit]

Do the decendants of abolitionist get a pass?

[G David Bock]

Both sides of my family tree didn't immigrate here until the last decade of 1800 and early decade of 1900. We had nothing to do with former and deceased slaves so under no obligation to their deadbeat descendants.

[T. A. Gardner]

Nope. In fact it is a BLM dream. No racist cops shoot black kids. Just black kids shooting old black men

Here in Phoenix, well Tempe, a White police Lieutenant shot a Black 20 something year old a couple of days ago. One round, one hit.

Local rabble rouser Jarrett Maupin with a "crowd" of about 50 people want the officer charged.

Now comes the kicker... The kid was in the middle of robbing a Walgreen's and the employees that called 911 told the operator that the kid said he had a gun.
When he tried to flee from the store, police repeatedly ordered him to stop, etc., which he ignored. The Lieutenant who shot him, stated he thought the kid was pulling his gun out.
The kid was running towards an assisted living home at the time.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/...rise/87747772/

Oh, the family of this thug made excuses for his behavior... How usual...

[Trung Si]

You need to research the guesstimates of the family wealth figures that were stolen from the jews in Europe by the Nazis. The "reparations" are but a pittance. Land from the UK........they had to fight bitterly for it........

The slaves may have deserved something.... but there are none alive today.....and they had their freedom stolen........ but not their wealth.