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> Post-slavery, black sharecroppers basically made nothing after expenses. So how much was their time actually worth? (An economist will ask this.) How much wa

> Post-slavery, black sharecroppers basically made nothing after expenses. So how much was their time actually worth? (An economist will ask this.) How much was the labor of slaves worth to the slaveowners? surely you're not arguing it was worth nothing? > Post-slavery, norhern states, which had no slaves, paid the cost of welfare for millions of black families. So how does that factor in? The price of social programs don't factor in at all. > Since there's intermarriage in America, what's a quanta of African blood? How much does one get paid per 1/32? (This is referring to the heated race arguments of the 1800s and 1900s.) This will come up if the reparations take the form of payments to individuals. > Do you have any experience with the above? My family is from the Detroit area, so I'm one of few posters on HN that actually does know something about these issues. Thank heavens we live in a country where people are allowed to have opinions without demonstrating the right to those opinions on the basis of heritage. > The US paid a heavy price during the civil war, one of the biggest issues being related to slavery. Do the northern states get reparations for freeing the slaves? Why would they? > That's the problem when you drag history into modern times. One of the biggest advantages that the US has over other countries is that we don't continue to fight the same battles over and over. Sadly you can't get rid of the effects of history by choosing to forget about it. > Even before corona, black familiies in America struggled greatly with maintaining households and educating their children. Instead of virtue signalling, why don't you contribute to solving today's enormous problems? This is unhelpful.

redis_mlc 6y ago
Seeing a lot of emotion and exclamations, but no experience, logic or insight. I can reply to all of your snarky comments with, "Why wouldn't what I said apply?" > surely you're not arguing it was worth nothing? So how much was it worth? Where is your calculation? The south fell behind the north because of using manual labor over industrialization, so it may well have been worth nothing. People fail to distinguish that the south was involved in slavery, not the north. The north literally owes nothing, and that means the US federally owes nothing. > This is unhelpful. No, your virtue signalling is completely unhelpful. We know where you stand - all talk and no action. You've suggested no solutions, and offered nothing but snarky rhetoric.

redis_mlc 6y ago

Seeing a lot of emotion and exclamations, but no experience, logic or insight. I can reply to all of your snarky comments with, "Why wouldn't what I said apply?" > surely you're not arguing it was worth nothing? So how much was it worth? Where is your calculation? The south fell behind the north because of using manual labor over industrialization, so it may well have been worth nothing. People fail to distinguish that the south was involved in slavery, not the north. The north literally owes nothing, and that means the US federally owes nothing. > This is unhelpful. No, your virtue signalling is completely unhelpful. We know where you stand - all talk and no action. You've suggested no solutions, and offered nothing but snarky rhetoric.