Can y'all imagine how much PURPLE carpet I would sell?
We will have them voting REPUBLICAN for 200 years!
Only you would see the land that was left over from building some assholes and armpits of our country as fair payment for taking everything else. How many reservations have you seen in a place you would live if given a choice? I'm sure there must be some but I've never seen one.I don't think you have to go very far up 75 north into Oklahoma to find very nice land on Indian reservations.
Another stupid and ill considered idea/suggestion in your quest to destroy America because your GI father left your mother when he saw what dropped out of her. You blame him more than yourself for your mother killing her self. So you swore your revenge.
After she put her coke bottle thick glasses back on and got you rinsed off and realized you were never going to look any better, she mixed up a Jack and lye and bottoms up! . Originally Posted by Munchmasterman
I know this whole thing will not happen but, for the sake of arguement:African-Americans must prove their slave lineage and sign off on the disavowal of future affirmative action benefits.
Why reparations only for black descendants of former slaves? Though they were rare, there were white slaves as well. What about former Native American slaves. (I actually have a bill of sale for a Native American/Irish ancestor indicating she was property. Would I qualify? Or don't Irish/Native American lives matter?)
There were also black people who owned slaves (uncommon) and black slave traders (very common).
What about mixed race people with both white and black ancestry?
Why not just say what everyone says nowadays? Reparations are for black people, regardless of their family history. Talk of reparations does not center on reparations for slavery. Originally Posted by goodman0422
African-Americans must prove their slave lineage and sign off on the disavowal of future affirmative action benefits.Your reparations program would be ridiculously inflationary and destabilize the economy for many years, and, as COG noted, there would be those who would continue to agitate that it is not enough. Plus, the Irish and other white ethnicity groups were shipped here as slaves in great numbers:
Again, the Indians are covered by the reservation lands. To improve their value and make everyone happy, I propose the legalization of prostitution on Indian lands.
Mixed race get proportional treatment.
Irish need not apply!!! Originally Posted by DSK
"Between 1700 and 1775, a total of 585,800 immigrants arrived in the 13 colonies from all over the world. About 52,200 of these immigrants were convicts and prisoners (9%). Slaves by far constituted the largest group (278,400; 47%), followed by people arriving with their freedom (151,600; 26%) and indentured servants (96,600; 18%). Note that almost three-quarters of all the people [white and black] arriving in the American colonies during this time period did so without their freedom" (p. 7, Bound With An Iron Chain by Anthony Vaver).
Your reparations program would be ridiculously inflationary and destabilize the economy for many years, and, as COG noted, there would be those who would continue to agitate that it is not enough. Plus, the Irish and other white ethnicity groups were shipped here as slaves in great numbers:Indentured servitude is not the same as slavery, in an ideal world.
Originally Posted by I B Hankering
Sure it does. The Hostess Twinkies are "Made in the USA"!Good idea, make it USA Debit Cards, and anyone accepting them would have the responsibility for the provenance of their products, under penalty of law.
In fact your idea would catch fire it you just issued ....
.... Walmart Debit Cards for $200,000.
Walmart could "monitor" the "Made in USA" requirement at checkout! Originally Posted by LexusLover
Indentured servitude is not the same as slavery, in an ideal world.Indentured servitude was the equivalent of slavery when the master could extend the term of service for what he deemed egregious infractions of rules he set. And inmates from the British prison system were sold not as indentured servants but as actual slaves; so, do some reading before you disregard the legitimate claims of the descendants of Irish slaves.
COG is no doubt correct about the inflationary effects, but so what? Buy gold and real estate and you are hedged.
As for those whiny bastards claiming it isn't enough, they can then be told to fuck off, they got their money. Originally Posted by DSK
Indentured servitude was the equivalent of slavery when the master could extend the term of service for what he deemed egregious infractions of rules he set. And inmates from the British prison system were sold not as indentured servants but as actual slaves; so, do some reading before you disregard the legitimate claims of the descendants of Irish slaves. Originally Posted by I B HankeringOK - I'll throw in 200,000 grand for each Irish person who can prove their slavery/egregious indentured servitude claims to the satisfaction of independent experts.