Those never enslaved want payments from those who never owned slaves
Advocates for reparations for blacks, those individuals and groups who want members of modern society who never owned slaves to pay huge sums to members of today’s black community who never were slaves, now are demanding $15 billion from “white” churches.
A report from WHDH explains the so-called Boston People’s Reparations Commission issued a weekend statement demanding Boston’s “white” and “establishment” churches “confess to their complicity” and “transfer portions of their enormous wealth to a mostly impoverished and underserved black community.”
“Many of the well-known white churches in downtown Boston are connected to the slave trade and the proliferation of what was a ‘slavetocracy’ in our city,” claimed Kevin Peterson, founder of the activist organization.
He earlier prompted the city to apologize for “complicity” in slavery, and that statement later triggered the creation of the task force.
“Beginning in the 17th century, all of our colonial churches were founded on the profits of slavery. Colonial ministers were among the most likely to have enslaved servants,” said John Gibbons of the Arlington Street Church in Boston.
I shook the cushions in the sofa and found $1.29 in spare change. Is that enough?
This has little to do with slavery, in my opinion. It has more to do with another way to get paid without working.
White people have paid “reparations” to black people in the form of various programs since 1963, to the tune of about 3 TRILLION dollars.
Cash payments to people for something that occured 150 years ago ain’t gonna happen. But, in some dream world where it really did happen, when that money was spent and gone, someone would come up with a new grievance that would require some more cash gifts.
Many of the wealthiest American Colonialists were Politicians or Clergy and oftentimes both. Taxing and Tithings LOL.
They’ve gotten reparations for years from welfare, food stamps, medical cards, and who knows how many other government benefits. Why in the hell do they think that white people owe them anything. Let them get off their lazy asses and work for what they need and want like I have done all my life. I don’t owe them a damn thing and I’m tired of hearing about it.
Hold your breath and wait kevin
And again, we never see them going after black slave owners.
if these people want reparations, they need to start with the Dutch, English, French Portuguese, Egypt. Were Hebrews slaves in ancient Egypt?
The Bible describes them as nomads who ended up wandering onto Egyptian territory, where they were made the slaves of the Egyptian state. Today, historians agree that Moses’ people were the descendants of these slaves. When did white slavery start?
According to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 15th and 19th centuries. where is my reparations for being white. Slavery was institutionalized by the time the first civilizations emerged (such as Sumer in Mesopotamia,[5] which dates back as far as 3500 BC). Slavery features in the Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750 BC), which refers to it as an established institution.[6] Slavery was widespread in the ancient world in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.[7][8][4]
This crap has to stop. If you want or need money, go work for it. Slavery has been around for at least the past 5500 years if not longer. Maybe even 11000 years ago. If you want reparations, go back to the people that started it.