Please exit through the reparations booth

[MillCreek]

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/white-midwife-works-to-give-birth-to-a-black-revolution/

You would all feel better about yourselves if you personally paid reparations. 

[Angel Eyes]

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/white-midwife-works-to-give-birth-to-a-black-revolution/

“You can’t steal from people and then say, ‘Let’s just get along,’ ” Hirsch said.

That's quite true . . . in ways that Hirsch does not comprehend.

[Hawkmoon]

Sorry. Black people of African ancestry who were born in the United States of America are no more "African" than I am English or French. My parents didn't own slaves or steal from anyone, and neither did my grandparents. I don't owe reparations to anyone.

[Firethorn]

Even if debts progressed through ancestors, I know enough of my family history - we were never slave owners.  Just the opposite.  When are the blacks going to pay for my family's efforts in freeing them?

[T.O.M.]

I've got some Native American blood...you all owe me rent!   

[K Frame]

"Uhuru Solidarity Movement"

They answer the space phone on the Enterprise?

[K Frame]

At least six of my ancestors fought for the Union during the Civil War, at least two died.

The only thing I owe anyone, white, black, or other, is to treat them fairly, value their contributions equally, and not judge them based on some preconceived notion.

[lee n. field]

I've got some Native American blood...you all owe me rent!   

Somewhere deep in my Mom's side there's a slave trader.  Reparations?  Ha!  Blood from a turnip!

[grampster]

My paternal great grandfather was from Germany and enlisted in a Union Pennsylvania cavalry unit.  Was wounded in battle.  Maternal grandparents were still in Lithuania during the slaveholder days.

As for reparations, we have already paid out trillions of tax dollars since LBJ created the Federal Plantation.  Hasn't seemed to have accomplished anything other than more misery and indentured servitude.  Probably has also contributed to the diminishing of intellectual capacity as well, judging from how some folks aren't able to grasp reality.

[K Frame]

"As for reparations, we have already paid out trillions of tax dollars since LBJ created the Federal Plantation.  Hasn't seemed to have accomplished anything other than more misery and indentured servitude."

Former coworker posted one of those assisinine memes on his facebook page the other day (he's apparently a big Bernie supporter...) saying that 49 of the 50 poorest counties in the United States are in red states, and laying the blame on Republican policies.

I pointed out that when LBJ declared "war" on poverty over 50 years ago, every one of those counties was a blue county in a blue state.

One has to wonder exactly why they turned red... maybe because blue policies were such an incredible failure for them?

He and his Berniebuds didn't like that one bit.

[brimic]

I've got some Native American blood...you all owe me rent!   

I'm a large part Dutch... can I pay you in trinkets?

[K Frame]

I'm a large part Dutch... can I pay you in trinkets?

Sorry, trinkets are not accepted.

Baubles only.

[MechAg94]

“You can’t steal from people and then say, ‘Let’s just get along,’ ” Hirsch said.

Okay.  Clarification.  Did they can get stolen from or just get stolen?  Besides, I thought the white slave traders bought them.  

What about white indentured servants?

[KD5NRH]

According to my aunt's research, I had ancestors on both sides of both Wars of Secession.  Do I owe myself reparations?

[Hawkmoon]

According to my aunt's research, I had ancestors on both sides of both Wars of Secession.  Do I owe myself reparations?

Obviously.

PAY UP, YOU DEADBEAT!

[HeroHog]

I have Choctaw and Cherokee blood and one ancestor who owned 2 slaves that were apparently well treated as best we can tell from what few records exist. Not happy about the latter but neither I nor any relative I have ever known was in any responsible for or associated with that. If you hate anyone simply because of their skin color, THOSE are the people I have issues with. BTW, My family on my father's side have been in the US since we were still British colonies and we fought for our independence from the British and the North. As far as I know we don't have any who fought for the Union. I am also descended from a LONG line of Baptist ministers (my dad was the black sheep of his family which explains a LOT about me) including my grandfather, Moses Eli Mercer.

I've given through my taxes since I was 15 and if ya want anything more at this point, all I am giving is copper and lead.
μολὼν λαβέ

[Ben]

The only thing I owe anyone, white, black, or other, is to treat them fairly, value their contributions equally, and not judge them based on some preconceived notion.

Very well said. As someone who's family didn't arrive on these shores until 1957, I totally agree.

Angel Eyes also hit the nail on the head regarding her "stealing" quote.

[tokugawa]

 Wasn't this supposed to be the happy colorblind future, character instead of skin color, etc. ?

[K Frame]

Wasn't this supposed to be the happy colorblind future, character instead of skin color, etc. ?

Of course it was.

But that was the white devil's plan, not the plan of the oppressed classes.

[birdman]

"As for reparations, we have already paid out trillions of tax dollars since LBJ created the Federal Plantation.  Hasn't seemed to have accomplished anything other than more misery and indentured servitude."

This.  It's kinda funny, there is a substantial racial disparity in the level of governmental support (% of a Y population receiving X benefit*), so one could say that those programs disproportionately benefit certain racial minorities.  Correspondingly, federal and state tax income leans the opposite way (again, not total numbers of population, but rather percentage of each), so one could say that the funds are disproportionately taken from the racial majority.  Hence, there is a net transfer of wealth from the racial majority to the racial minority disproportionate to their population.  If you total up the disparity over the last 40+ years, it actual,y far exceeds ANY number put forth for "reparations" by even the most vehement advocates.

*this method is the best choice, as while the total number and total $ of racial majority folks receiving government benefits is greater than the racial minority side, that still represents a transfer from one to the other when given the source of funds being the other way.
To put in another perspective, if you average over alli white people, they pay X in taxes, and receive Y in direct $ benefits, where X>Y, while for racial minorities, Y>X.

[Firethorn]

"As for reparations, we have already paid out trillions of tax dollars since LBJ created the Federal Plantation.  Hasn't seemed to have accomplished anything other than more misery and indentured servitude."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keF7Nb_0VBI

Relevant.

[Ron]

Thank God the Obama presidency is coming to a close.

I don't think the country could survive another four years of his racial healing.

[Perd Hapley]

So, you think the country survived?

[Ron]

So, you think the country survived?

Touché

[vaskidmark]

White, Catholic, Irish were brought to North America as slaves a good 10 years before the first African slave was dragged onto a boat headed this way.  Mostly children between 6 and 12, plus some older females  to serve as "mothers" to the broods of Hell's spawn.  (Breeding age males were either "conscripted" into the various armies roaming around Europe at the time or left at home as less-than-serfs to work the lords' fields till they dropped of starvation and/or exhaustion.

Why do we not hear about reparations for the Irish?  Seriously, even though it would just be offering free drinks to a drunk, don't they deserve their "fair share"?

Then there's the whole Black African American reparations thing itself.  I figure my share is somewhere between $.15 and $0.25.  Picture this - I walk up to the first Black African American (are the Brown African Americans going to feel pissed for being left out?) I see and put a quarter in their hand.  Some SJW is going to excoriate me when all I wanted to do was pay my share of what Dead White People did to Dead African People.  Is that fair?  Is it just?  Why should I get blamed for starting a race where when all I wanted to do was square things?

While the quarter itself is no big thing everything that follows just does not seem worth it.

stay safe.