Should African Americans Get Reparations for Slavery?

On July 23, 2007, CNN and YouTube partnered to sponsor the first Democratic primary debate of the 2008 election cycle. Questions were asked by citizens from around the country by uploading personal videos to the YouTube website.

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[Eth Lort]

There's no way you dirty niggers are going to get a dime of my money!

[blacktastic1]

Whoa! Jews DO get money for the Holocaust from this country. It's part of the budget. Oh, and people are just so stupid, always stopping at slavery. That's where the institutional hatred began. Obama danced around the question just like most white people dance around the reality that Slavery and its residual effects (IE. Jim Crow, the FHA and VA housing fuckery, crack, AIDS, Tuskegee, and a whole bunch of other shit) have hindered Black economic growth more than ANY OTHER demographic. SMFH...

[Eu Phoric]

I'm pretty sure if your ancestors' hard work built a country's initial wealth you would think differently. I do agree that winning the lottery is much more likely because I doubt that a government that worked so hard to destroy African Americans would do something to help African Americans (i.e. CIA & FBI to name a few).

[MyYourajoke]

i agree whites don't have to give blacks anything because they worked hard & stole it, the lords job is to fix that & when he returns all whites will be going into slavery Revelation 13:9-10

[MyYourajoke]

Black people in America are not Africans they are Israelites from the tribe of Judah they are the real Jews

[Robes4220]

If blacks think they're entitled to money for something they didn't have to go through that's insane. That'd be like giving money to a Hebrew and saying "Hey I know your grandparents died in the Holocaust, but here's a check. Feel better?" Blacks want something for nothing. Play the lottery. Your odds are better

[doglick131]

African Americans need to study their history better, whites didnt go to Africa and throw nets on blacks, and enslave them, it was other Africans that sold their own people into slavery, Black shamans, and warlord have been trading slaves since the beginning of history, they are masters in the slave trade, whites were just "new" customers.

If your looking for reparations, you should look to the Africans that sold your ansestors into slavery in the first place...