I'm already a slave, to the elderly.

By the way, this slavery discussion brings to mind a story about work where a black aide refused to help a resident because the woman had a cotton flower in her room.

Instead of monetary reparations, why not provide passes which make one eligible for free education, training, healthcare, child care, pre-natal services, and so on?

(March 31, 2022 at 11:00 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Oh, look, another thread about race from Huggy.  The only topic he can talk about.

He' s looking for a paycheck.....

And hey - if he gets one the IRS should get their cut, right?

With penalties dating back to 1863...... With interest he probably owes a great deal already......

(April 1, 2022 at 4:17 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I have a suggestion. Instead of cash payments or the like, reparations could take the form of indentured servitude. Every Black American who can establish that they are the descendant of an enslaved person would be paired with a White American who can be determined to be descended from a slave owner or slave trader or a lawmaker (at any level) who fought against emancipation - in short, anyone who supported or directly benefited from slavery.

For a period of time to be determined (I'm thinking two years), the White person would be required to work for the Black person - clean their house, tend their garden, raise their children - for no pay beyond room and board. The Black person would be able to punish the White person for not performing these duties satisfactorily. The form and frequency of the punishment would be solely at the discretion of Black person. During the period in question, the White person would not be able to vote, attend school, marry without permission, and could be assigned to another Black person on a whim. White families would not necessarily be paired with Black families as a group.

Maybe two years of indentured servitude would shut up some of these waterheads who keep claiming that slavery 'wasn't that bad'.

Boru

 Channeling Jonathan Swift, are we?

(April 1, 2022 at 9:46 am)Fireball Wrote:

(April 1, 2022 at 4:17 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I have a suggestion. Instead of cash payments or the like, reparations could take the form of indentured servitude. Every Black American who can establish that they are the descendant of an enslaved person would be paired with a White American who can be determined to be descended from a slave owner or slave trader or a lawmaker (at any level) who fought against emancipation - in short, anyone who supported or directly benefited from slavery.

For a period of time to be determined (I'm thinking two years), the White person would be required to work for the Black person - clean their house, tend their garden, raise their children - for no pay beyond room and board. The Black person would be able to punish the White person for not performing these duties satisfactorily. The form and frequency of the punishment would be solely at the discretion of Black person. During the period in question, the White person would not be able to vote, attend school, marry without permission, and could be assigned to another Black person on a whim. White families would not necessarily be paired with Black families as a group.

Maybe two years of indentured servitude would shut up some of these waterheads who keep claiming that slavery 'wasn't that bad'.

Boru

 Channeling Jonathan Swift, are we?

Not really. Swift was a satirist, whereas I’m dead serious.

Boru

(April 1, 2022 at 9:21 am)onlinebiker Wrote:

(March 31, 2022 at 11:00 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Oh, look, another thread about race from Huggy.  The only topic he can talk about.

He' s looking for a paycheck.....

And hey - if he gets one the IRS should get their cut, right?

With penalties dating back to 1863...... With interest he probably owes a great deal already......

Sovereign states don't pay taxes.

I'm moving to Huggyland!

(March 31, 2022 at 12:56 am)Huggy Bear Wrote: @Ranjr

I wouldn't say that reparations are "help", reparations is what the U.S. owes for forcing a group of people to build it for free.

I don't often agree with you, but I think you hit it on the head here.