To understand the current call for reparations.
Reparations is where people who never owned slaves, whose parents never owned slaves and whose gradparents never owned slaves...
Pay cash to people who never were slaves, whose parents never were slaves and whose grandparents never were slaves...
Furthermore… Some of those who pay had ancestors who fought - some died - in the Civil War to free the slaves….
And some of those who would receive had ancestors who owned slaves. Some of these have white great grandparents who owned slaves; Barack Obama had slave-owning ancestors. (His great…grandfather George Washington Overall owned slaves in Kentucky The Guardian.) And there were free black people who owned slaves.
It doesn’t make any sense at all to me. What do all those candidates and congresspeople want? And why?
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I answer the Reparations question with a question of my own: How far back do we go, in history, assigning reparations? The answer is usually "just far enough back to where 'I' get reparations, but not so far back to where 'I' have to PAY them".
Asians are exempt, right?
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