Should White People Pay For Slavery
I’m taking a cultural diversity class and after reading this article on yahoo about how Obama is against blacks being paid for past slavery issues I decided I had to say something. Before I go much further I want to say I am not racist, I am not discriminative, but I am realistic.
I don’t believe that we as a society today should pay money directly to decedents of Slaves. Why well one your a decedent and YOU did not go though slavery, please stop acting like you did. I find people who do this acting very disrespectful to their ancestors who did go though it. It was hard on them and many did not survive it.
The other reason I don’t think whites should pay for slavery is that Non of us did that to you or your ancestors. We were not there WE had no control over any of it. In fact in my case my ancestors were not even in the US yet, therefore my family had nothing to do with it. Many other people also can claim this, in fact my family went through the holocaust. I’m not Jewish, but they supported Jews, that made them outcast and targets, did they get anything for that treatment, no.
Those two reasons are not the big reasons, they are things to think about. The big reason that I refuse to pay blacks for slavery is simple. It won’t help the bigger issue, we will still have people who don’t like blacks, and this will just make them hate them even more, this could cause a huge increase in hate crime and so on. The other big reason is that blacks were not the only ones enslaved, Jews, Irish, Asian, Indian and many more cultures were also enslaved or forced to work for very low wages.
I feel the only way to really help minorities is to create better schools, have national funded collages that will give out at least associate degrees to everyone, create trade schools in inner cities that teens can attend while in High School and earn a certificate that may get them a better job without worrying about college. Pretty much what I want to see is all minorities being treated equally to whites. Not different, not being paid off by us, but treated as equals. That is the only way to change our society and move on. Personally if I were given money by the government for something instead of things changing I would feel cheated and probably not take it. Now if you read this blog you know that I have never had a huge amount of money. I make between $500-$800 a month, online because I can’t find a job. What many of you don’t know is that I grew up in poor black neighborhoods until the age of 12 when my mom had enough and moved us to the country. I have seen first hand what blacks have to deal with, I know that they believe that all whites hate them, in fact I myself hated most of my race because of hearing this. Until I met whites that were different. Change does not come from giving out money, change comes from hard work that will take a long time. You have to change how people think and believe. Begging for money and demanding payment for something today’s US citizens did not do is not the answer.
*Please feel free to give your comments about this issue, but be polite about it or I will delete your comment. (it’s my blog after all) I will not delete your comment if it’s polite, but you disagree with me. I don’t work that way.
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