In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in the US about a demand by certain black organizations (like Black Lives Matter) for a financial compensation by the “white” people for slavery.
This demand raises many legitimate questions.
What if someone came to the US two or three generations ago and his ancestors did not own slaves?
What if the ancestor of a black man was a freeman who himself owned slaves (as we know that certain blacks did)?
In this case, does he has to pay reparations to himself?
Is holding accountable the descendants 150 years later the best way to go on?
I’m not saying to forget things like slavery, the lynch mobs and the Jim Crow laws (passed by Democrats) ever happened, I’m just asking do the American white people need to be punished for slavery Ad Infinitum?
If they had never acknowledged it that would be one thing, but they did a civil war that killed half a million people over it.
So yeah, they accepted the responsibility for what can justly be called a horrible crime.
What I find the most troubling in the current climate, is the definition of white.
Aren’t Latinos “white”?
What about all the black slaves brought in South America and the Caribbean by the Spaniards and Portuguese?
How come no one dares talk about “Latino” guilt and reparations? Continue reading Black slaves, Arab masters: why are there no calls for reparations?