Quote:It doesn't have to be paid all at once, we'll accept a payment plan...

(April 2, 2022 at 12:39 am)Huggy Bear Wrote:

(April 1, 2022 at 8:15 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: And, just for the record, $20 trillion is almost the entire GDP of America. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you weren't aware of that or the implications, because if you were, what you're basically asking for is a revanchist system where the balance of power is reversed and we basically have even worse inequality than we do now (except with black people not being the one suffering this time.)

It doesn't have to be paid all at once, we'll accept a payment plan...

(April 2, 2022 at 2:22 am)onlinebiker Wrote: I don' t know about anyone else - but me and Jackalope are exempt from the reparations fuck fest.


Lithuania abolished slavery in 1588 - and there was never a history of Africans enslaved by Lithuanians. The ones they had were mostly Estonian and a few Germanic types.

So you ain't getting a motherfucking nickle out of me....

(April 1, 2022 at 7:39 pm)Huggy Bear Wrote:

(April 1, 2022 at 7:26 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I don't often agree with you, but I think you hit it on the head here.

Hey Thump! Haven't seen you in a while.

(April 2, 2022 at 2:36 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(April 2, 2022 at 2:22 am)onlinebiker Wrote: I don' t know about anyone else - but me and Jackalope are exempt from the reparations fuck fest.


Lithuania abolished slavery in 1588 - and there was never a history of Africans enslaved by Lithuanians. The ones they had were mostly Estonian and a few Germanic types.

So you ain't getting a motherfucking nickle out of me....

(bold mine)

Yeah, that bit's really not your call.

Boru

(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

(April 1, 2022 at 4:52 am)Foxaire Wrote: 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.

(April 2, 2022 at 9:41 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Or, maybe, he's noticing that you don't actually get to pick and choose what taxes you pay, taxes that will fund any such scheme, no matter how poorly conceived it may be.

I appreciate that this was probably a tough call for you, deciding whether you wanted to bitch about taxation or anti white racism.  I'd have gone for the trifecta myself, and added guns.  ala - They'll get their racist reperations money out of my cold dead hands.