It is beyond dispute that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was appalling
and abhorrent. Many people suffered and died while others prospered at
their expense. A great injustice - or rather millions of injustices -
took place and it's understandable that some people feel something
should be done about that injustice to redress what happened.
From this seed was born the reparations movement, the idea that those
who suffered should be compensated. But the problem is that those who >suffered are dead, as are those who enslaved them. The champions of >reparations don't see this as a problem: let the descendants of those
who kept slaves compensate the descendants of those who were slaves. But >given how hard (IMPOSSIBLE!) it would be to identify exactly who
descended from slave owners and who descended from slaves, the leaders
of the reparations movement simplified things and demand that wealthy >Western nations give poor African nations staggering sums of money. This >means that people in Western countries who never owned slaves (and whose >ancestors never owned slaves) would compensate many people in Africa who >were never slaves and who aren't descendants of slaves.
As if that wasn't a brand new major injustice itself, the host of Bantu
City Diaries, a black man himself, explains why it would be a really bad >idea for reparations to be paid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IGE_SH-SFE [16 minutes]
He raised several points that don't usually come up in the traditional >discussions around reparations, including the observations that many of
the people who would benefit from reparations are the descendants of
those who sold their own fellow blacks into slavery!
He's very articulate so I'll let him explain the rest in his own words.--- Synchronet 3.22a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
It is beyond dispute that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was appalling
and abhorrent. Many people suffered and died while others prospered at
their expense. A great injustice - or rather millions of injustices -
took place and it's understandable that some people feel something
should be done about that injustice to redress what happened.
From this seed was born the reparations movement, the idea that those
who suffered should be compensated. But the problem is that those who
suffered are dead, as are those who enslaved them. The champions of
reparations don't see this as a problem: let the descendants of those
who kept slaves compensate the descendants of those who were slaves. But
given how hard (IMPOSSIBLE!) it would be to identify exactly who
descended from slave owners and who descended from slaves, the leaders
of the reparations movement simplified things and demand that wealthy
Western nations give poor African nations staggering sums of money. This
means that people in Western countries who never owned slaves (and whose
ancestors never owned slaves) would compensate many people in Africa who
were never slaves and who aren't descendants of slaves.
In some cases, you'd be compensating descendants of tribes who had
captured members of enemy tribes to be sold into the trns-Atlantic slave trade.
It is beyond dispute that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was appalling
and abhorrent. Many people suffered and died while others prospered at
their expense. A great injustice - or rather millions of injustices -
took place and it's understandable that some people feel something
should be done about that injustice to redress what happened.
From this seed was born the reparations movement, the idea that those
who suffered should be compensated. But the problem is that those who >suffered are dead, as are those who enslaved them. The champions of >reparations don't see this as a problem: let the descendants of those
who kept slaves compensate the descendants of those who were slaves. But >given how hard (IMPOSSIBLE!) it would be to identify exactly who
descended from slave owners and who descended from slaves, the leaders
of the reparations movement simplified things and demand that wealthy >Western nations give poor African nations staggering sums of money. This >means that people in Western countries who never owned slaves (and whose >ancestors never owned slaves) would compensate many people in Africa who >were never slaves and who aren't descendants of slaves.
As if that wasn't a brand new major injustice itself, the host of Bantu
City Diaries, a black man himself, explains why it would be a really bad >idea for reparations to be paid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IGE_SH-SFE [16 minutes]
He raised several points that don't usually come up in the traditional >discussions around reparations, including the observations that many of
the people who would benefit from reparations are the descendants of
those who sold their own fellow blacks into slavery!
He's very articulate so I'll let him explain the rest in his own words.
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