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This is rich stuff any way you look at it. All them yankees beating down the South for slavery. They support the blacks in tearing down our monuments, our flags, our songs, anything Southern. Now, you get to pay for it.

Yep, all them blacks are wanting you to give them money for their ancestors being slaves. of course it is just the blacks that were descended from slaves. And how many do you think that will be? About 120% I would say.

What is Corey Booker up to? Please. He is buying votes. He has made the division that if you don't give blacks money then you are the opposition. And he is for giving the blacks the money. Are there any blacks who would turn that down? No. Like I said, 120%.

The liberal left is buying Mexican votes for immigration in declaring health care for illegals or drivers license. Now it is buying votes for blacks...reparations.

What reparations are there going to be for the American Indian? What reparations are there going to be for the Southern White civilian People who the yankees made war against when they found it too costly to fight the Southern men?

Oh yes, we all got reparations coming. But only if your black do you have any chance of getting it.

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Oh yes, we all got reparations coming. But only if your black do you have any chance of getting it.
Self-serving politicians like Corey Booker (and the entire Black Caucus, particularly Mad Maxine) would not be doing the damage they are doing to America if the Republican congressmen and senators were faithfully fulfilling their oaths of office and doing their duty. They have all committed treason day after day and gotten away with it. They have all betrayed their constituents and should never be re-elected.

The only reason that Barack Obama was elected was because of his race, and he made sure that racial tensions would increase under his administration. But not a single white politician had the guts to challenge him and call for his impeachment. At the same time, Obama made sure that the conditions for Blacks in the inner cities were made worse, instead of better, and Chicago became the leading American city where crimes of blacks-against-blacks went from bad to worse.

Then along came evil ex-Nazi George Soros, who decided to deliberately create lawlessness, anarchy and mayhem in American cities by funding and encouraging Black Lives Matter and Antifa -- all paid thugs. Once again, no one made the effort to put Obama and Soros behind bars.

It is far too late for anyone to talk about any kind of reparations for any reason. Blacks have made tremendous progress in the USA, and had it not been for evil self-serving Black politicians, the black population of America would have been extremely happy. But *racism* has been used as a trump-card for a very long time, and it should be time for someone to say "enough is enough".
 

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Oh yes, we all got reparations coming. But only if your black do you have any chance of getting it.

Stranger

Reparations ~
It's a conundrum, a slippery slope.

Scripture says IF an Individual wrongs an other Individual...Correct the wrong.

Right and Wrong, and an individual Knowing the difference, Became "MADE" instinctive in every individual to ever be naturally born, the moment Adam ATE of the forbidden Tree of Good and Evil.

Pryor, Adam and Eve, had ONLY been taught GOOD, personally and directly By God who was WITH them IN the Garden.

People are not naturally born with God WITH them, and thus the task of teaching ONLY Good of a persons offspring falls on the Parents responsibility.

The LIST of Failure of Parental responsibility is LONG.
Children are sponges, soaking up Everything they see and hear. A Parent is the FIRST thing for a child to TRUST. And the child will instinctively TRUST what the parent Trusts.

Within the home, parents absent, parents arguing, cheating, lying, sneaking, is observed by the child. Parents allowing children to be "raised", BY babysitters, the TV, the schools, the government, politicians, pastors, neighbors, etc., is observed, heard, TRUSTED, by the children.

They Know Right and Wrong, and LEARN RIGHT is HARD, requires WORK, requires DILIGENCE, and the REWARD is Long coming.

They Know Right and Wrong, and LEARN WRONG is EASY, requires RISK, and the REWARD is Instant, and the RISK of Being found out in the WRONG, has LITTLE consequence.

It is a slippery slope ~ To Teach for the individual / child to DO RIGHT, while also Teaching, RIGHT being Done unto THEM, WILL NOT always be the Case.

The World Teaches...At ALL COSTS, get your revenge for being Wronged.

The Scripture Teaches...
1) Do Right.
2) Know others are standing by to deceive you.
3) Do Right.
4) Reason with a Wrong doer.
5) If reasoning Fails, Separate yourself from the Wrong doer.

The World Teaches...At ALL COSTS, if Wrong Doing Benefits you, (the individual), solicite the Government on YOUR BEHALF, (the law-making Authority), to MAKE LAWS, to KEEP your WRONG DOING....ACCEPTABLE....
Legally and Society wise.

POLITICAL JUNKIES ~
Society has fallen for the DECEPTION, to Elect a Politician to FOSTER (with the poison PEN of LAW making Authority), and Compel WRONG DOING, for a Wrong Doers BENEFIT.
WHEN ~
It was the DESIGN of A Constitution, to BE the Umbrella for a Statesmen, to PROTECT a Citizens States Rights from BEING INFRINGED UPON, by a Statesman, FROM another State.

Today, a Politicians POSITION, is WIDELY taught and accepted (society wise)...they are the Representative to GET YOU SOMETHING (at an others EXPENSE), with NO Cost to the individual WANTING the something for NOTHING.

And as you pointed out, there is that itty bitty cost to the individual...to every few years, pull the lever and cast a vote...and KEEP the corrupt politician glued to a SEAT intended for an honorable person.

People in General have ALL been Wronged at some point. For some it is a single incident for others it is an ongoing situation.

The World has taught the World; Let the World FIX your woes. Solicit a Political Junkie. THEY control the Poison Pen. Give them MONEY, Give them a VOTE, Give them the GLUE to keep their behind SEATED in a Seat reserved for Honor, "CALL" them "honorable", and your "Something for Nothing" will become Realized.

Oh, and NOT to Forget...
EVEN a THIEF, EVEN a LIAR, EVEN a CHEAT...
Does not like to be stolen from, lied to, or cheated!

People who were NOT slaves, want Reparations from People who were NOT slave owners.
People who made POOR choices, in spouses, Want others to PAY for their own POOR choices.
People who REFUSE to WORK, want Others to Work, and Supply them with FOOD, SHELTER, CLOTHING, TRANSPORTATION, TV's, COMPUTERS, PHONES, HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION, CHILDCARE, MONEY...and on and on.

And IN THE WINGS, are the Political Junkies, waiting to make all their Desires Come True!

GAG!

A LESSON from God...
God Created Animals FIRST....then MAN.
Observe an Animal with ITS offspring.
The Animal Teaches its offspring HOW TO take care of itself.
If the offspring FAILS in Taking care of itself, the offspring suffers the consequence of its own failure.

The Worlds LESSON...
No one is ALLOWED to BE a failure. If society is FAILING, "lower" the Bar, Pin a blue ribbon on them and exalt them in recognition as Accomplished!

There have been SO MANY...corrupt "political junkies", who have been making "corrupt LAWS" for so long, and generationS of people who KNOW not the difference between corrupt and uncorrupt....
Being FED the LIE, IF it's a LAW, it must be "RIGHT"... thus THEY ARE most willing to JOIN IN on the BANDWAGON, "to GET something for NOTHING".

THE LAW, didn't pan out for the HEBREWS...The TRIBES of ISRAEL.
Because there is ALWAYS someone "under the Law" MOST WILLING to be another mans BURDEN.

LAWS don't pan out for the World Today...
Because the LAWS are NOT DESIGNED to PROTECT "rights"....THEY ARE TODAY DESIGNED to CREATE "burdens".

GREED...greed of the burdens, greed of the burdens "handlers", who foster and encourage the greed of the burdens, for the "handlers" to obtain their own greed "and authorative power."

And ONCE everyone is Convinced the Public at Large IS ALL EQUAL, The Public at Large will BE equally a BURDEN.

And ONCE the Public at Large ARE Equally a BURDEN... "THEY" the "AUTHORATIVE" "FEW", have you UNDER "THEIR" Control.

Liberty, Freedom, Freewill, Rights, Mercy, Compassion...
Pfft. Kaput!

If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out.
BUT...if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what is going on until it's too late and it is cooked.

We have a MAJORITY of the WORLD'S people, not noticing they are like frogs enjoying the tepid water; and not noticing whose hand is on the DIAL cranking up the flame.

Glory to God,
His own WARNING was given the First man and the theme of Gods WARNING continued with descending men...
His WAY is Good, HOWEVER EVIL Lurks disguised as A WAY, that APPEARS GOOD.
Hear, Learn, Know the Difference...
MAKE your elections/choices BE SURE...
That you are WILLING to receive the Consequence FOR your elections/choices.

Because ultimately God IS the FIRE, that will PURIFY you or DESTROY you.

God Bless,
Taken
 
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Let's say it did happen. Reparations were given to the blacks for slavery. Each black was sent a check, a substantial amount of money. Is there anyone that thinks the blacks will be satisfied? Will we no longer have to listen to their 'slavery' cries as an excuse for why they just can't seem to get ahead? Of course not. This is how they make hay.

As a race, blacks must have someone to blame. It is never their fault. The white man is just keeping me down. Someone must always be paying for the blacks not getting ahead. If it's not forty acres and a mule, it is civil rights. If it is not civil rights it is affirmative action. If it's not afftirmative action it is reparations. There will be no end to it.

The bottom line is that the blacks are saying, 'Im black' and someone must pay for it.

If you have ever raised animals you know the power of feed rattling in a five gallon bucket. The animals ears perk up and they head instinctively toward you. This is always a great help when some get out of the fence and your trying to get them back in. Just picture Corey Booker with that feed bucket. Rattling reparations around in it, and getting the herd all excited. Follow me.

I wonder if the NAACP will disband if reparations are given?

Stranger
 

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Let's say it did happen. Reparations were given to the blacks for slavery. Each black was sent a check, a substantial amount of money. Is there anyone that thinks the blacks will be satisfied? Will we no longer have to listen to their 'slavery' cries as an excuse for why they just can't seem to get ahead? Of course not. This is how they make hay.

As a race, blacks must have someone to blame. It is never their fault. The white man is just keeping me down. Someone must always be paying for the blacks not getting ahead. If it's not forty acres and a mule, it is civil rights. If it is not civil rights it is affirmative action. If it's not afftirmative action it is reparations. There will be no end to it.

The bottom line is that the blacks are saying, 'Im black' and someone must pay for it.

If you have ever raised animals you know the power of feed rattling in a five gallon bucket. The animals ears perk up and they head instinctively toward you. This is always a great help when some get out of the fence and your trying to get them back in. Just picture Corey Booker with that feed bucket. Rattling reparations around in it, and getting the herd all excited. Follow me.

I wonder if the NAACP will disband if reparations are given?

Stranger
This post rings quite true.
 
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Reparations ~
It's a conundrum, a slippery slope.

Scripture says IF an Individual wrongs an other Individual...Correct the wrong.

Right and Wrong, and an individual Knowing the difference, Became "MADE" instinctive in every individual to ever be naturally born, the moment Adam ATE of the forbidden Tree of Good and Evil.

Pryor, Adam and Eve, had ONLY been taught GOOD, personally and directly By God who was WITH them IN the Garden.

People are not naturally born with God WITH them, and thus the task of teaching ONLY Good of a persons offspring falls on the Parents responsibility.

The LIST of Failure of Parental responsibility is LONG.
Children are sponges, soaking up Everything they see and hear. A Parent is the FIRST thing for a child to TRUST. And the child will instinctively TRUST what the parent Trusts.

Within the home, parents absent, parents arguing, cheating, lying, sneaking, is observed by the child. Parents allowing children to be "raised", BY babysitters, the TV, the schools, the government, politicians, pastors, neighbors, etc., is observed, heard, TRUSTED, by the children.

They Know Right and Wrong, and LEARN RIGHT is HARD, requires WORK, requires DILIGENCE, and the REWARD is Long coming.

They Know Right and Wrong, and LEARN WRONG is EASY, requires RISK, and the REWARD is Instant, and the RISK of Being found out in the WRONG, has LITTLE consequence.

It is a slippery slope ~ To Teach for the individual / child to DO RIGHT, while also Teaching, RIGHT being Done unto THEM, WILL NOT always be the Case.

The World Teaches...At ALL COSTS, get your revenge for being Wronged.

The Scripture Teaches...
1) Do Right.
2) Know others are standing by to deceive you.
3) Do Right.
4) Reason with a Wrong doer.
5) If reasoning Fails, Separate yourself from the Wrong doer.

The World Teaches...At ALL COSTS, if Wrong Doing Benefits you, (the individual), solicite the Government on YOUR BEHALF, (the law-making Authority), to MAKE LAWS, to KEEP your WRONG DOING....ACCEPTABLE....
Legally and Society wise.

POLITICAL JUNKIES ~
Society has fallen for the DECEPTION, to Elect a Politician to FOSTER (with the poison PEN of LAW making Authority), and Compel WRONG DOING, for a Wrong Doers BENEFIT.
WHEN ~
It was the DESIGN of A Constitution, to BE the Umbrella for a Statesmen, to PROTECT a Citizens States Rights from BEING INFRINGED UPON, by a Statesman, FROM another State.

Today, a Politicians POSITION, is WIDELY taught and accepted (society wise)...they are the Representative to GET YOU SOMETHING (at an others EXPENSE), with NO Cost to the individual WANTING the something for NOTHING.

And as you pointed out, there is that itty bitty cost to the individual...to every few years, pull the lever and cast a vote...and KEEP the corrupt politician glued to a SEAT intended for an honorable person.

People in General have ALL been Wronged at some point. For some it is a single incident for others it is an ongoing situation.

The World has taught the World; Let the World FIX your woes. Solicit a Political Junkie. THEY control the Poison Pen. Give them MONEY, Give them a VOTE, Give them the GLUE to keep their behind SEATED in a Seat reserved for Honor, "CALL" them "honorable", and your "Something for Nothing" will become Realized.

Oh, and NOT to Forget...
EVEN a THIEF, EVEN a LIAR, EVEN a CHEAT...
Does not like to be stolen from, lied to, or cheated!

People who were NOT slaves, want Reparations from People who were NOT slave owners.
People who made POOR choices, in spouses, Want others to PAY for their own POOR choices.
People who REFUSE to WORK, want Others to Work, and Supply them with FOOD, SHELTER, CLOTHING, TRANSPORTATION, TV's, COMPUTERS, PHONES, HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION, CHILDCARE, MONEY...and on and on.

And IN THE WINGS, are the Political Junkies, waiting to make all their Desires Come True!

GAG!

A LESSON from God...
God Created Animals FIRST....then MAN.
Observe an Animal with ITS offspring.
The Animal Teaches its offspring HOW TO take care of itself.
If the offspring FAILS in Taking care of itself, the offspring suffers the consequence of its own failure.

The Worlds LESSON...
No one is ALLOWED to BE a failure. If society is FAILING, "lower" the Bar, Pin a blue ribbon on them and exalt them in recognition as Accomplished!

There have been SO MANY...corrupt "political junkies", who have been making "corrupt LAWS" for so long, and generationS of people who KNOW not the difference between corrupt and uncorrupt....
Being FED the LIE, IF it's a LAW, it must be "RIGHT"... thus THEY ARE most willing to JOIN IN on the BANDWAGON, "to GET something for NOTHING".

THE LAW, didn't pan out for the HEBREWS...The TRIBES of ISRAEL.
Because there is ALWAYS someone "under the Law" MOST WILLING to be another mans BURDEN.

LAWS don't pan out for the World Today...
Because the LAWS are NOT DESIGNED to PROTECT "rights"....THEY ARE TODAY DESIGNED to CREATE "burdens".

GREED...greed of the burdens, greed of the burdens "handlers", who foster and encourage the greed of the burdens, for the "handlers" to obtain their own greed "and authorative power."

And ONCE everyone is Convinced the Public at Large IS ALL EQUAL, The Public at Large will BE equally a BURDEN.

And ONCE the Public at Large ARE Equally a BURDEN... "THEY" the "AUTHORATIVE" "FEW", have you UNDER "THEIR" Control.

Liberty, Freedom, Freewill, Rights, Mercy, Compassion...
Pfft. Kaput!

If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out.
BUT...if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what is going on until it's too late and it is cooked.

We have a MAJORITY of the WORLD'S people, not noticing they are like frogs enjoying the tepid water; and not noticing whose hand is on the DIAL cranking up the flame.

Glory to God,
His own WARNING was given the First man and the theme of Gods WARNING continued with descending men...
His WAY is Good, HOWEVER EVIL Lurks disguised as A WAY, that APPEARS GOOD.
Hear, Learn, Know the Difference...
MAKE your elections/choices BE SURE...
That you are WILLING to receive the Consequence FOR your elections/choices.

Because ultimately God IS the FIRE, that will PURIFY you or DESTROY you.

God Bless,
Taken
You've spoken a gem of a concept:

"People who were NOT slaves, want Reparations from People who were NOT slave owners."
 

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It might blow your mind to learn of the yearly salaries and net worth of all those sobbing Blacks on TV, crying how deprived they are today because of how some people lived hundreds of years ago. Those Congress people all get paid at least three to four times more than most Americans ever earn. (plus $100,000+ a year in perks) And I would shudder to think of the pile of money that scammer, Al Sharpton is sitting on.
 
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It might blow your mind to learn of the yearly salaries and net worth of all those sobbing Blacks on TV, crying how deprived they are today because of how some people lived hundreds of years ago. Those Congress people all get paid at least three to four times more than most Americans ever earn. (plus $100,000+ a year in perks) And I would shudder to think of the pile of money that scammer, Al Sharpton is sitting on.

Salary? Ha, just the tip of the iceberg...
Offices, Supplies, Transportation, spas, clothing allowances, CREDIT CARDS, Healthcare, and on and on PERKS.

Salary? Serve (2 terms, I believe), and thereafter, if one does step down, their Salary (portion or full) continues AFTER they leave office.

Salary? For "servants", who self-describe themselves AS LEADERS, was discussed early on when establishing a US government....that a govt SERVANTS compensation should be allotted according to: the AVERAGE WORKERS Pay. Ha, ha, ha,

But then, the SERVANT IS the ONE holding the pen of law making authority!

AND BTW...ever notice HOW MANY volumns of LAWS the Law makers have MADE, that REQUIRES LICENSES for the Public at Large, for every thing they can think of...

But yet there is not a SINGLE LAW that Requires a person Running for an ELECTED Position to be LICENSED, having passed an examination revealing they have one iota of competency to Execute the position for which they are viing to hold.
Odd how they can UNDER OATH sware to UP HOLD the Law, when NOTHING reveals they KNOW what the Law is or means.

Glory to God,
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The bottom line is that the blacks are saying, 'Im black' and someone must pay for it.
I would say that it is the BLACK MANIPULATORS (along with their white conspirators) who are saying this. Lock them all up and the rest of the black population will go on living peaceably. Some crafty blacks have made a career out of manipulating both blacks and white, and at least Kanye West has caught on to this.
 

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And I would shudder to think of the pile of money that scammer, Al Sharpton is sitting on.
How it it that Sharpton has not been locked up already, along with all the other schemers who have been blatantly using the black population for their own agendas?
 
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It might blow your mind to learn of the yearly salaries and net worth of all those sobbing Blacks on TV, crying how deprived they are today because of how some people lived hundreds of years ago. Those Congress people all get paid at least three to four times more than most Americans ever earn. (plus $100,000+ a year in perks) And I would shudder to think of the pile of money that scammer, Al Sharpton is sitting on.
And this justifies destroying entire thriving communities of blacks just bc they were black and successful, like the Californios? Y'know, from Stranger hey consider the source but from you?
Ok
 

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And this justifies destroying entire thriving communities of blacks just bc they were black and successful, like the Californios? Y'know, from Stranger hey consider the source but from you?
Ok
Who is talking about "destroying" anyone? I am saying NOT to just give them even MORE free government handouts..... which has almost already destroyed them.
Did you have the idea that giving them some more free money because their ancestors might have had to work for a white man is going to teach them "true" PRIDE? No, earning their own paychecks does that.
 
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I am saying NOT to just give them even MORE free government handouts..... which has almost already destroyed them.
1. First of all a civil war that took tens of thousands of lives for nothing, was a very stupid idea (with all due respect to Abraham Lincoln).

'The Civil War was America's bloodiest conflict. The unprecedented violence of battles such as Shiloh, Antietam, Stones River, and Gettysburg shocked citizens and international observers alike. Nearly as many men died in captivity during the Civil War as were killed in the whole of the Vietnam War. Hundreds of thousands died of disease. Roughly 2% of the population, an estimated 620,000 men, lost their lives in the line of duty. Taken as a percentage of today's population, the toll would have risen as high as 6 million souls.'
Civil War Casualties

It achieved nothing, destroyed the South, and gave the rascals on both sides free rein to loot and pillage innocents. William Quantrill's Lawrence Massacre is well-known for the murder of innocents. There is debate as to whether he was "an opportunistic bandit or a legitimate partisan".

2. Had the federal government simply negotiated with the slave owners, compensated them fairly with cash, and then made proper arrangements for all those who had been emancipated to be resettled and have their own productive settlements, it would have cost far less in cash and human lives.

3. The federal government did not even have a solid plan to rehabilitate emancipated slaves, just like they failed to give the Native Americans a fair deal at that time. So while they were fighting a war to free black slaves, they were creating red slaves on wretched reservations. More stupidity.

4. Large numbers of blacks were encouraged to be unproductive by putting them on welfare, rather than creating meaningful jobs and giving them an opportunity to work for other blacks or go into business for themselves. The so-called "War on Poverty" did little or nothing to alleviate poverty.

5. More recently, scheming black politicians failed to follow the example of Booker T. Washington who did something constructive for his people, and instead they made sure that blacks destroyed themselves in the ghettos. Today, both blacks and whites should read Up from Slavery by Washington, and apply his ideas. He was well-respected by both blacks and whites (unlike Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton).
 

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Who is talking about "destroying" anyone?
Me. I am. I did. Bc you guys wouldn't want to, surely. So go ahead, idc ok
pretend that old religious white guys, pointy hats or no, have not disenfranchised...pretty much everyone else, ok with me.

Like i said, stranger i expect to warp things all out of proportion to make himself feel better for a minute.
 

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Oh yes, we all got reparations coming.
Here's something to think about:
1. The Civil was from 1861 to 1865.
2. The estimated total cost of this war was over 6 billion dollars (current dollars).
3. There were an estimated 4 million slaves at that time.
4. The estimated price of a slave was $500
5. The estimated average annual wage (non-slave) was $500
6. Had the US government simply compensated each slave owner with $500/slave and every emancipated slave with $500 cash (1 year's wages)
that would have been $1,000 x 4,000,000 = 4 billion.
7. The US government would have saved $2 billion and all the dreadful results of the Civil War. Even if the slave owners would have wanted a bit more, it would have been possible to give them a higher settlement. With proper records for each transaction, the talk of reparations today would have been laughed at.

In other words, the US government was foolish to engage in a Civil War when it would have been cheaper to settle with all parties in cash, and avoid 650,000 casualties (apart from the hatred generated between North and South and blacks vs whites). Like I said, it was a stupid idea.
 
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Here's something to think about:
1. The Civil was from 1861 to 1865.
2. The estimated total cost of this war was over 6 billion dollars (current dollars).
3. There were an estimated 4 million slaves at that time.
4. The estimated price of a slave was $500
5. The estimated average annual wage (non-slave) was $500
6. Had the US government simply compensated each slave owner with $500/slave and every emancipated slave with $500 cash (1 year's wages)
that would have been $1,000 x 4,000,000 = 4 billion.
7. The US government would have saved $2 billion and all the dreadful results of the Civil War. Even if the slave owners would have wanted a bit more, it would have been possible to give them a higher settlement. With proper records for each transaction, the talk of reparations today would have been laughed at.

In other words, the US government was foolish to engage in a Civil War when it would have been cheaper to settle with all parties in cash, and avoid 650,000 casualties (apart from the hatred generated between North and South and blacks vs whites). Like I said, it was a stupid idea.

If it had been a war over slavery, it was a stupid idea. And the North did have money in mind when they started that war. It is much more complicated than a war over slavery.

I see you are Canadian. Have you studied our war between the States? If you start another thread here on the causes of that war I would gladly participate.

I noticed in post #(13) you mentioned Quantrill and Lawrence Kansas. I have written quite a bit on it in the thread "Lessons for Historical Mary" in this section also. Feel free to comment on it.

Stranger
 

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What are you even talking about?
Who is talking about "destroying" anyone? I am saying NOT to just give them even MORE free government handouts..... which has almost already destroyed them.
Did you have the idea that giving them some more free money because their ancestors might have had to work for a white man is going to teach them "true" PRIDE? No, earning their own paychecks does that.
Sounds good see, but when you remove all the opportunities for paychecks for those who will not comport with your agenda, Capitalism in this case, then what? How close to The Mark might you now be treading, Willie?
 

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And the North did have money in mind when they started that war.
where did you get the idea that the North started the civil war, strange?

"Nathan Rothschild warned that the U.S. would find itself involved in a most disastrous war..."
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Have you studied our war between the States? If you start another thread here on the causes of that war I would gladly participate.
Me too :)
But a quick study on what a "Greenback" really was might be interesting here i guess? :) you go 'head
 

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This is rich stuff any way you look at it. All them yankees beating down the South for slavery. They support the blacks in tearing down our monuments, our flags, our songs, anything Southern. Now, you get to pay for it.

Yep, all them blacks are wanting you to give them money for their ancestors being slaves. of course it is just the blacks that were descended from slaves. And how many do you think that will be? About 120% I would say.

What is Corey Booker up to? Please. He is buying votes. He has made the division that if you don't give blacks money then you are the opposition. And he is for giving the blacks the money. Are there any blacks who would turn that down? No. Like I said, 120%.

The liberal left is buying Mexican votes for immigration in declaring health care for illegals or drivers license. Now it is buying votes for blacks...reparations.

What reparations are there going to be for the American Indian? What reparations are there going to be for the Southern White civilian People who the yankees made war against when they found it too costly to fight the Southern men?

Oh yes, we all got reparations coming. But only if your black do you have any chance of getting it.

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