Slavery reimbursement and Restitution For All African-Americans

Perhaps you have heard the great consider in the news media about the potential refund and restitution for all African-Americans who have ancestors who were slaves. After some 15 generations this turns out to be quite a large amount of people, in fact it is over 40 million. If the United States government were forced to give let's say ,000 to over 40 million people it would verily bankrupt our country, not that collective security won't do that same thing in the near time to come anyway, but nevertheless it would bankrupt the nation.

Additionally, how can one group of people such as African Americans request refund and restitution when other nationalities were also exploited in the early days of America. Reconsider the Irish and the Chinese while building the hasten or the time before the commercial Revolution when people work to the bone; both adults and children for very minute food, no they were not slaves but right on economically enslaved. And also if we give reparations to black-Americans descended from slaves, then we also owe the Japanese Americans who were interned while Wwii - an additional one black mark on our nations unfortunately. Recently in a coffee shop conversation I heard a white gentleman arguing with a black gentleman over this very issue. The white gentleman stated:

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"What about all the crime being caused by black Americans in the inner city, I have to pay more in taxes for police and prisons and my car was broken into, I do not see anybody trying to reimburse me for that. I want my tax dollars back. So there is your Black Mirror. And if anything calls me a racist for pointing out facts; then I call the Black accommodation of business racist for having an all Black Club, excluding whites. This is a Black Racist issue, demanding refund for slavery and those complicated need to get a life and grow up. They are not helping America; they are tearing it down. Plato would have laughed at the insanity of all this."

Now then, those were not the exact words of the white gentleman as this consider got quite heated and went on for about 30 minutes nevertheless that was the gist of the seminar and it is something to philosophically think about. Do I agree with what he'd said? No not entirely, and I think both sides have some points of contention. Maybe someday we can all work this out and not be so afraid over race issues that we can't talk about it in a civilized way. What happened to America, what happened to the melting pot, why do these racial issues still go on. Why the racist comments from both sides, why the race baiting, and why all the anger from both white Americans and black Americans - We are All Americans after all!

The black gentleman was completely serious about wanting his ,000 reimbursement. He said it was owed to him and he demanded restitution. The White Gentleman was adamant about not ever giving a red cent of tax dollars for reparations, so I guess this seminar is just too heated to even mention anymore. Possibly we should all Reconsider this in 2006.

Slavery reimbursement and Restitution For All African-Americans

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