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I don't know about the rest of you .... but my grandparents came here from Poland around 1900. Basically, they were peasants in Poland who dug potatoes for the rich landed gentry. They never owned slaves. They busted their asses when they got here; worked 2 jobs; and never asked for a handout.

How about starting with the blacks that owned slaves (something that is omitted from the history books):

"So what do the actual numbers of black slave owners and their slaves tell us? In 1830, the year most carefully studied by Carter G. Woodson, about 13.7 percent (319,599) of the black population was free. Of these, 3,776 free Negroes owned 12,907 slaves, out of a total of 2,009,043 slaves owned in the entire United States, so the numbers of slaves owned by black people over all was quite small by comparison with the number owned by white people. In his essay, " 'The Known World' of Free Black Slaveholders," Thomas J. Pressly, using Woodson's statistics, calculated that 54 (or about 1 percent) of these black slave owners in 1830 owned between 20 and 84 slaves; 172 (about 4 percent) owned between 10 to 19 slaves; and 3,550 (about 94 percent) each owned between 1 and 9 slaves. Crucially, 42 percent owned just one slave.

Pressly also shows that the percentage of free black slave owners as the total number of free black heads of families was quite high in several states, namely 43 percent in South Carolina, 40 percent in Louisiana, 26 percent in Mississippi, 25 percent in Alabama and 20 percent in Georgia."

Maybe we should track down their descendants and get them to write the first checks?

See:

https://www.theroot.com/did-black-people-own-slaves-1790895436

I've noticed the theme in the media over the last few months has been how poorly various minorities have been and are treated in our country. This narrative is the current splitting strategy while trying not to talk about record employment numbers and the economic upturn for all. Booker is busy playing along with the BS narrative.

Give each 50 K and strap a muslim and a illegal alien to em and send them back to the mother land.

Better get a few billion $$$$ over to the nigs before the illegals bleed us dry.

Oh hell it's just money. The dem libs propose bribing the triangle countries to stop sending people up here. Which actually would do nothing but make corrupt foreign officials' bank accounts fatter. May as well keep it in the country. The socialist dems would tax it all back to the Treasury anyway. What? You think it's YOUR money?

Got a few questions/points about this proposal:

1) What about those black slaves that were owned by other blacks? There were documented cases of black slave owners. Not making this up.

2) What about the black slaves owned by Indians? Again, not making this up. This is also documented.

3) What about those of mixed race heritage? Do they have to pay themselves?

4) Since slavery was perfectly legal in many parts of the United States until abolished by the ratification of the 13th Amendment in either late 1865 or early 1866 (I forget which, but well after the end of the War of Southern Independence), should not the legal slave owners be due reparations/compensation for the confiscation of their legally owned property? Note that this includes some states such as Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky, West Virginia (which questionably legally seceded from Virginia as a slave state during the War), Delaware, and the District of Columbia, which remained in the Union during the war (I know there is controversy about Missouri and Kentucky as they both had Confederate as well as Union state governments during the War and that the Maryland legislature was literally prevented on voting on secession by Federal troops with fixed bayonets). Lincoln's position was that secession was not legal, therefore the Southern sates never really left the Union, so under that argument, all slaves were taken from their owners - U.S. citizens - without compensation, which is illegal. There is a major contradiction here as if the Confederate States had never legally left the Union, then why were they required to officially be readmitted to the Union? You cannot return to something you never left.

I want reparations for the legally owned property that was confiscated without compensation from my ancestors by the Yankee government. That is a hell of a lot stronger claim than what these jackasses have. Hmmm....got a better idea: Why don't we just move on and try to make our lives and our country better? What a concept!

So is this intended to end racism or start racism? Blacks running for president all supporting special treatment for blacks sure sounds racist and a losing strategy to me....

Fine with me... get the original slave owners to pay the slaves - if their alive.. Then sue the black slave catchers who rounded them up and shipped them here in the first place...
Anyone without a slave chain marks or lash scars need not apply.

My ancestors owned slaves. Big deal. It was legal to do so at that time and place......and I'll repeat that....it was L..E..G..A...L, legal to do so. It doesn't bother me one bit that they did, because that was a very long time ago. I'm sure that if I traced my ancestors back far enough, I'd find some reason to accuse someone of mistreating them. But, does that give me the right to demand justice from them?

Ever since I first heard the word "reparation" I've said that it is nothing but another move by the Negro to get something for nothing....something that they have become very good at. Gimme dis, and gimme dat........that has become the modern day Negroes motto.

Gimmie Dat. That sums up the groid way of life!

Reparations - Who should receive them?

1) slavery was legal in America

2) not all blacks in America are descendants of American slaves

3) thousands of blacks were themselves slave owners

4) first court decision in American upholding slavery decided in favor of a black slave owner

5) some whites were also slaves (some were owned by blacks)

6) no one alive today was either a slave nor a slave owner

7) The descendants of slaves today live in a free America and enjoy all the same rights of everyone else

8) government programs have been designed to help blacks economically, scholastically, socially, etc. and given them protected status

9) There are no laws which prohibit a black from doing anything whites can do

This history of this lady, and eventual ownership of slaves was quite the norm in Louisiana.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Thérèse_Metoyer

If one needed an example. Here is a name.

I will gladly accept payments for suffering monkeyshines my entire life. Upon receipt, I will gladly turn over every penny to repatriate each and every one of them to their native continent.

Another interesting institution of the old south

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaçage#Quadroon_balls

And that’s all I have to say about that.

In the old country we called that "burning oil"....

This will be a very decisive issue for the nation. It's certainly a foolish concept.

If we owe blacks reparations, then how about the Native Americans?

Quadroon balls have been a BIG target of revisionist history lately. There exists way too much evidence to the contrary.

We took almost all the land from the Indians.