Never heard of "white priviledge" until Obama became elected.
Not until the black community quits blaming whites in the US for slavery (and not other countries) and everything they feel is wrong with how their community is treated, instead of looking at how their "community" acts nothing will change. Reparations "for labor, for loss of culture and of humanity" as Robert Brock puts it. In 1988, the United States agreed to pay $20,000 to more than 100,000 ... Robinson argues that blacks today still bear the scars of slavery and the decades of discrimination. Where are the reparations for the Italians, Poles, Jews, Irish, and native Americans? Ironic that the native Americans are now allowed to own Casinos while Indian Reservations are still in action.
http://www.crf-usa.org/brown-v-board-50th-anniversary/reparations-for-slavery-reading.html After the passage of the 13th Amendment following the Civil War, should the former slaves have been granted reparations?
How are reparations for black slavery similar and different from the following:
a. reparations paid by the U.S. government to the Sioux Indians for lands illegally confiscated in 1877?
b. reparations paid by the West German government to Jewish survivors of Nazi concentration camps?
c. reparations paid by the U.S. government to Japanese Americans interned unconstitutionally in prison camps during World War II?
Many people and groups have voiced their opposition to the whole idea of slavery reparations. Major arguments against reparations include:
- There are no black slaves living today. Slavery ended more than 160 years ago at the cost of several hundred thousand lives lost in the Civil War. It is unfair to ask American taxpayers, many of them from families that came to the United States after slavery ended, to pay for the wrongs of slavery.
- The problems faced by African Americans today are not the "legacy of slavery" or even racism. Many blacks have succeeded very well in American society.
The problems of poor African Americans are caused by social ills within the inner city, such as the breakdown of families, high crime rates, and dependence on welfare. Welfare is a form of submissive slavery to the guberment.
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