Subj : Re: Reparations
To   : Lee Lofaso
From : aaron thomas
Date : Mon Mar 25 2019 12:25:27

 LL> They were people, forcibly taken from their homelands, and then
 LL> treated like cattle to do the bidding for their new "owners".

Everyone has been victimized by the government in one way or another; why not
focus on government-mistakes more recent & relevant than slavery? Who's in
office right now cracking that slavery whip?

The government used to allow lead paint for residential use; should
descendants of lead paint victims sue the government?

How will it feel for a white guy like me to knock on a black person's porch
with a check in my hand saying "I'm sorry for the slavery! I think you should
have this money because someone with the same skin color as me enslaved your
ancestor."

We're suing ourselves.

Will descendants be exempt from the slave-tax? Will we (the plantation
owners) be paying for the millions of DNA tests that will need to be examined
to prove descendant-ship?

Slavery is to blame for any economic problem any descendant is suffering from
right now.

The government didn't have insurance to cover this type of lawsuit back then,
so if it costs too much to pay all these reparations, do we just smack the
rubber against the paper?

This is disrespectful to the actual slaves in many layers. Most strikingly,
it will persuade many descendants in the the voting booth. How heroic will
a democrat be in their tv commercial when they say "I voted in favor of
reparations, but we're not done yet! Vote for me and we'll give you some
more reparations! This will never be over!"Brand recognition is powerful..

If there's not enough money for this effort, we can enslave the whites for an
equal number of years as the other slaves were enslaved. That's kinda what
we're doing here anyway; on a smaller scale.

 LL> But it could apologize, and at least pay a generous amount to show

Why apologize for something you didn't do? A bad cop killed an innocent man
today. 200 years from now, can descendants of that innocent man sue the
police department, if it still exists?

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