I'm not guilty of my far extended ancestors actions. Thus, I have no responsibility to pay anyone anything that I was not personally responsible for or where I have not personal promised to be responsible for something for others.
There is also a problem in that you seem to think that only Africans were slaves historically. Most cultures in most of the world had slavery at some point in time. They usually enslaved people of their own race.
The 2nd problem you have is that the "whites" did not invent African Slavery. What those that did so did was to take advantage of the well established thousand + year history of the atlantic coast African Slave trade at the time - and transported some of them to other parts of the world (which included the Caribbean, North America, Europe, and even some to South America).
No white men (or other races) went into Africa and captured Africans for slaves. Africans captured fellow Africans, as they had been doing for thousands of years, and sold them to anyone willing to buy them - including those who wished to transport them elsewhere.
So to put your claim into your specific context: The crime of the "white man" was to purchase existing slaves and transport them elsewhere to be used as slaves elsewhere; at a time when it was legal to do so.
To this day you can go into certain parts of Africa and purchase slaves.
I don't see anyone asking for reparations for people in the middle east, or other parts of the world, for the historical slavery of their ancestors.
Unfortunately; I feel that your claimed issue is misdirected. There is an issue in America (and some other parts of the world) on how the slaves were treated and what happened after slavery ended.
The largely "economic" slavery system used in the America's for the African (and some others) slaves did not treat the slaves in the same manner as the historic middle eastern slavery mentioned in the Old Testament, Torah, or Qur'an. It was often much worse.
I personally believe that much of the USA owes at least an apology for at least the worst examples of that, and perhaps on a case by case bases a better opportunity to the descendants - for those willing to work on improving themselves and their future (I do not support just giving money to people unless they are actually going to do something positive for their future with it).
Should white people pay reperations?
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I'm not guilty of my far extended ancestors actions. Thus, I have no responsibility to pay anyone anything that I was not personally responsible for or where I have not personal promised to be responsible for something for others.
There is also a problem in that you seem to think that only Africans were slaves historically. Most cultures in most of the world had slavery at some point in time. They usually enslaved people of their own race.
The 2nd problem you have is that the "whites" did not invent African Slavery. What those that did so did was to take advantage of the well established thousand + year history of the atlantic coast African Slave trade at the time - and transported some of them to other parts of the world (which included the Caribbean, North America, Europe, and even some to South America).
No white men (or other races) went into Africa and captured Africans for slaves. Africans captured fellow Africans, as they had been doing for thousands of years, and sold them to anyone willing to buy them - including those who wished to transport them elsewhere.
So to put your claim into your specific context: The crime of the "white man" was to purchase existing slaves and transport them elsewhere to be used as slaves elsewhere; at a time when it was legal to do so.
To this day you can go into certain parts of Africa and purchase slaves.
I don't see anyone asking for reparations for people in the middle east, or other parts of the world, for the historical slavery of their ancestors.
Unfortunately; I feel that your claimed issue is misdirected. There is an issue in America (and some other parts of the world) on how the slaves were treated and what happened after slavery ended.
The largely "economic" slavery system used in the America's for the African (and some others) slaves did not treat the slaves in the same manner as the historic middle eastern slavery mentioned in the Old Testament, Torah, or Qur'an. It was often much worse.
I personally believe that much of the USA owes at least an apology for at least the worst examples of that, and perhaps on a case by case bases a better opportunity to the descendants - for those willing to work on improving themselves and their future (I do not support just giving money to people unless they are actually going to do something positive for their future with it).