I will try to put this in a more simple way. If a man and a woman take a dog and beat the crap out of it for several years, you are going to have a dog that fears/hates people. If you take a man that beats the crap out of a dog and a woman that treats it nice, it will fear/hate men. The same if a woman beats the crap out of the dog and the man treats it nice, it will fear/hate women. Take a girl and have a man abuse her while she is young and they will hate/fear men probably for the rest of their lives and will pass on that same loathing to her offspring. You starting to get my drift here?psychotoxic187 wrote:
I am sorry, but what WE did to them? It was their own race, and country who had them enslaved. They traded them to us for supplies. Did we do wrong? Yes, but they are just as guilty. You also cannot lump us together, my family did not own slaves, my grandpa came from germany, and my grandma came from Norway. Europeans were enslaved at one point in history, does that mean we deserve something for it? No, this is now, that was then, times are different.
To get right to the point, blacks are pretty damn bitter and it has propagated from generation to generation. Former slaves hated white people with a fury beyond definition and they talked about it every day. The first generation of "free" African Americans heard this hate every day of their lives and saw the results daily through racism, inequality, lynchings, etc. From there, things self propagated. So when whites innocently state that we should "get over it", it infuriates us. Beyond being insensitive, their views would be like Osama bin Laden saying for us to get over 9-11 or German people saying, hey Jews....time to chill out on that Holocaust stuff, Hitler did it, not us. People laugh when we say that we are due reparations for slavery, because they say that they are not responsible, but in reality...as an AMERICAN TAXPAYER...they are. This country was literally built upon the backs of slaves. To those who would contest this fact, unless you know the impact of the cotton industry and how much it benefited America, please don't bother.
Now...the bitterness probably comes from the fact that everyone ELSE who has been wronged throughout history has gotten reparations from those countries. Native Americans get special tax breaks, have land that is under Federal Protection, they have tax free revenue from gambling, and much much more. I won't get into issues involving Jewish reparations because that will start calls for people saying I am anti-Semitic or some other such nonsense...but I will just leave it at that they have been given reparations as well. Blacks have not been given anything. Nada. Nothing. Even the promise of 40 acres and a Mule to slaves by the United States government just after slavery was never honored.
In regard to reparations, I am obviously torn by the issue. I don't think that we should be given any type of cash compensation because far too much time has passed and without the financial education to back it up, far to many blacks would piss it away anyhow. However, I DO believe that certain tax benefits similar to what has been given to Native Americans are warranted. A HUGE benefit should be that we should be given free, high-quality education or financial management education or tax breaks or at least housing and land at reduced rates. Some whites like to scream unfair and pull their hair out when we get "preferential treatment", but you gotta be kidding me!!!
- Beatdown
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