California about to be the first state to administer reparations!s

[Pat Mustard]

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

Increase it to anybody who has ever flown the stars and bars and you might have the beginnings of an idea. Also make the term at least five years and force the person to hand over any pay or income from capital they may own for the duration. Let them see what working for nothing was really about.

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.

My guess is that there was a lot more going on there but vested interests portrayed it as being about only the flower.