Reparations: how to apply for yours

Quote: odiousgambit

Nothing is ever that simple. For example, in the slave states, yes, you could decline to own a slave. But if your house needed painting, the contractor would show up with slaves to do the work. It was 'the system of labor' of the area, you were surrounded with it. Yes, I know, Geno would paint the house himself. If someone didn't, was he a horrible person beyond redemption ?

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Slavery messed people up in too many ways for sudden freedom to fix. Just to speak to intellect, without education ... you know it was mandated illiteracy, the very bottom rung of education level... a person's intellectual ability is completely repressed. The problem persists as the children of the poorly educated are brought up into households with no tradition of education. It's not that many generations away from slavery that we have here, you know.

And everyone writing here knows the way to success is hard work. A slave has a tough time believing such a thing ... all that hard work is doing nothing for him but wearing him out. If launched into freedom he likely wants to pursue everything else but that ... and this also gets passed down in generations

Quote: GenoDRPh

All whiter people had to do,when offered slaves for sale, was to say 'No thanks, I'm good. But know anyone looking for work? Room and board included!"

You must REALLY hate the intellectual abilities of non-White people. If that helps you sleep better at night, you deserve the insomnia instead.

Quote: odiousgambit

I think the MA slaves got sold South for the most part. I don't remember seeing or hearing about the multiple communities that would have been created by MA "getting rid of slavery" and those people staying in MA

And MA is mighty, mighty close to RI to be innocent of all those activities there

Quote: odiousgambit

I think the MA slaves got sold South for the most part. I don't remember seeing or hearing about the multiple communities that would have been created by MA "getting rid of slavery" and those people staying in MA

And MA is mighty, mighty close to RI to be innocent of all those activities there

Quote: AZDuffman

These were port areas where trade happened. Same as today.

Quote: GenoDRPh

Then you are an idiot.

Nopity nope. Newly freed slaves either entered indentured servitude for a while, or were hired for wages. No slave was sold off when the courts ended slavery here.