The issue seems pretty straight forward to me, If you're currently a slave, you're entitled to reparations. If you're currently a slave owner, you should be paying reparations. Sorted.
The issue seems pretty straight forward to me, If you're currently a slave, you're entitled to reparations. If you're currently a slave owner, you should be paying reparations. Sorted.
then maybe you can tell that to the government, mainly for ww2/vietnam as in meaning the draft which in my eyes is a form of slavery because your forced into war despite your objections
First I should distinguish between the three types as it pertains to ethnic groups of people that come under discussion.
1) American Indians/Native Americans. Not a single ethnicity and more a tribe by tribe/nation by nation basis but I will lump it all together as most laws do.
2) Japanese internment camp victims.
3) Descendants of slaves.
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You don't have to go if you REALLY don't want to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientious_objection_in_the_United_States
Also, you left out Korea.
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Each of those peoples got a shitty deal at some point, but they're not the only ones. For example, Chinese who worked at building the railroads in the West. They were absolutely 2nd class citizens, but they persevered. Italians, Irish, Polish, Germans who were transported directly from the boat that brought them across the Atlantic to coal mining jobs in Appalachia where they were paid in company 'scrip' money instead of US currency. If they left, that 'scrip' was worthless anywhere else and they would be penniless. They had to live in the company town, rent a company house (shack), buy all their clothing and food from the company store. They lived as captive property, and this went on for decades. Their descendants are still mining coal and living in an economically depressed shithole. Anyone talking about reparations for them for having to live like that that while NYC built itself into a city of skyscrapers on the coal they mined? Nope. And if a reparations law passed, the ultimate irony is they'd be taxed for it.
Each of those peoples got a shitty deal at some point, but they're not the only ones. For example, Chinese who worked at building the railroads in the West. They were absolutely 2nd class citizens, but they persevered. Italians, Irish, Polish, Germans who were transported directly from the boat that brought them across the Atlantic to coal mining jobs in Appalachia where they were paid in company 'scrip' money instead of US currency. If they left, that 'scrip' was worthless anywhere else and they would be penniless. They had to live in the company town, rent a company house (shack), buy all their clothing and food from the company store. They lived as captive property, and this went on for decades. Their descendants are still mining coal and living in an economically depressed shithole. Anyone talking about reparations for them for having to live like that that while NYC built itself into a city of skyscrapers on the coal they mined? Nope. And if a reparations law passed, the ultimate irony is they'd be taxed for it.
The second one. They're pandering to their base. I know a lot of what a politician says or does is pandering, but this is like hard core pandering. Any politician that tries to use reparations to get into the White House, are going to lose pretty hard in 2020.So,erm...is this reparation thing really a thing, or just one question that gets thrown around under the 'look what our opponents care about lololol' ?
My ancestors were too busy starving to death in Ireland, and getting oppressed by the Russian empire.Note that my families did not come to the USA until after slavery was ended. Looks like those rice crispy treats are all for me.
Seems like a fairly solid take from where I sit. If your would be candidates get side tracked talking about things few people would support, or indeed find the notion of to be offensive, and thus can't present a coherent and likeable candidate then in the confusion the opposition will take the easy win resulting from that.
Were they not discussing the patently absurd notion (one I would put on par with that wall lark) during a late stage debate to decide which person gets to run?'If'. But it's not the case.
IF ur FBI can't even trust ur own president, the who can you trust?he might leak that information.
Were they not discussing the patently absurd notion (one I would put on par with that wall lark) during a late stage debate to decide which person gets to run?
I have been known to make a dense sentence or two but that was fine by all the metrics I normally use.You're going to have to rephrase your post in such a way that it is understandable by native English speakers I'm afraid.