Ask those who owned slaves. Not one building in my state was built by slaves. Not one road. Not one factory.
You brought up a hypothetical and I answered with one. Your comment is the dodge.
So I can ask for reparations? Thank you.
Their fellow Africans were paid. The Dahomey built an empire thanks to the enslavement of their neighbors. Go after that fortune.
A son can seek legal redress for some crime or offense committed against his father against the actual person responsible. Since we are talking about money, the claim could be that but for that offense, that money would have passed down to him upon the father’s death.
But, for someone to claim that the money his great-great grandfather would have made would have passed down to him, is silly. It would have passed to his great grandfather. The idea that had slaves been paid it would have created generational wealth is ignorant. If that were the case, all of the white people in the US who can trace their roots here back to colonial days, would be millionaires. Go visit Appalachia and see how that theory played out in reality.
That’s not the point. The point is, by using that standard, almost everyone should be getting a hand out.
The insidious part of reparations is that it is based on racist thinking. The people who bring up reparations, whether white or black, have given up hope for black people ever being able to achieve success as a group. First you had AA. Then colleges lowered admission standards for black students. Public schools have lowered standards, and black kids have trouble reaching these lowered standards. You have welfare, SNAP, foodstamps, free heathcare, etc. Various social programs and initiatives. Everything has failed. Black people are underachieving with regard to education and employment. They are responsible for a disproportionate amount of violent crime. These are facts.
So what is the newest solution from the elites, black and white? Just give black people a large amount of cash. We went from labor with zero pay to money with no labor. Why? Because the sjws have given up hope on black people ever being capable of success. They are a perpetual charity case.
Here’s the funny part- If I understand it correctly, he originates from about 25 miles from me, and his dad used to work at a place I drove past every day on my way to work.
In the heart of the Pittsburgh coal seam, smack dab in the leading edge of the Appalachian foothills, littered with burnt out old mill towns and mine patches, which by extension of this reparations theory should be rolling in generational wealth.
I don’t get the whole generational wealth argument. It’s as if the narrative is all white people are like the Rockefellers or something. Most of the white people I know have mortgages. Many have student loans they are paying back.
I was working with a whole crew of black guys for a while, and most of them were were pretty grounded in lifes terms & conditions. Make money-pay bills, etc.
But a couple of them really actually believed that my house, car, wife, kid- everything- was just some fucking birthright that I should freely share because I’m a fuckin cracka. 
Its funny how if you want to believe something hard enough, Poof! It becomes your reality.
We had some 1hr.+ drives from our muster point to the jobsites to discuss these things. These conversations would have been hilarious if they weren’t so freakin sad.
I think castoli should pay us all reparations because of all the idiotic posts he exposes us to, 
Go ask some guy in Ethiopia if he’d rather have had his ancestors enslaved and is now in America collecting food stamps or starving and walking 10 miles everyday for drinking water in Africa.
Go ask any Nigerian or Congolese person stuying and busting his ass working in America what he thinks about AA being entitled to reparations.
Slavery was wrong, no one is disputing that.
Come on man…
Don’t you know that if you aren’t a a CIS straight white man you’re a slave to the patriarchy they created and control?
How can you not see it you sheep?
/sarcasm
Is there any other kind of straight man?
Anyway, the irony here is that, if slavery was still a thing in the western world, castoli would be the last one here to let go of his slaves.
Someone would have to work for him, cause he sure as shit won’t.
You can identify as anything.
I suppose you’re right.
I was still operating under the assumption that if you identify as Napoleon, you belong in the loony bin.
Clearly, it was wrong of me to do so.
It’s not all bad, I guess. I always wanted to be an austronaut.
Welcome aboard, Sir.
The sky is the limit.
I’ll finish up my mandate as the king of Prussia and join you aboard the space shuttle.
What a D-bag! Has no evidence to back his retarded claim. Just posts stuff that he THINKS are true.
But you are disputing that slaves ought to have been paid for the work they had done.
They were probably just pissed off due to the plight of racism. Redlining and things of that nature.
Paying people for work already done is the right thing to do. Are you going to leave your children something behind, even though they didn’t do the work? Even if it isn’t much?
Okay so receiving money for work that has already been done is a hand-out. No subsidies for successful corporations are “hand-outs”.
Why?
These programs are only to help you breathe oxygen not to make people succeed.
And Why does crime predominately live in poor communities? Facts.
Who blacks?
And that work was already done, is pay not warranted? Are your children going to receive things from you that they didn’t work for? But I guess they are just charity cases.
It’s not about fortunes, it’s about paying for the work already done. The money passed down to the great grandfather by the great-great grandfather would have eventually been passed down to their current heirs. Would it not have been?