Have blacks that ask for reparations ever heard of a statute of limitations?

Question

cause it ran our a 130 years ago

Answer 1

LOL @ statute of limitations!

You are absolutely correct.  Also know that at least the Christian CONSERVATIVE Blacks (like myself) feel that reparations are nothing but a pipe dream conjured up by those who do NOT represent me ("Rev." Jackson and "Rev." Sharpton).  I also think it is ASININE for Congress to take their focus off more important issues and "apologize" for slavery.  Idiots.

Answer 2

Yes.  That is why they focus their efforts on legislators, not on courts.  Statutes of limitations affect court actions, not legislative.

Answer 3

The statute of limitations does not apply to a POLITICAL request, which would be voluntarily paid if it succeeded.

And that's what is really going on here.

Answer 4

Not only has any sort of statute of limitations run out but also:

1.  No black person alive today in the United States has EVER been a slave.

2.  No white person alive today in the United States has EVER owned a slave.

3.  A great many people in the United States today have ancestors that immigrated here AFTER the Civil War, and were never involved in slavery in any way, shape or form.

4.  Granting reparations for slavery to todays generation is a good way start another Civil War.  It would be a case of government pandering to a minority at the expense of the rest of the citizens.

Slavery, when it was in existence, was a legal institution that only became illegal after the Civil War was over.  Lincoln's emancipation proclamation only effected slaves in those states in rebellion with the Union, NOT any slaves in states still within the Union.  It wasn't until the 13th amendment was ratified that ALL slavery became illegal in the United States and its territories.

Answer 5

Probably.  We all need to get the emails going to our representatives about this.  There is a committee actually looking into it right now.  Let's let them,know we will not stand for it.

Answer 6

My answer is;

Interesting but,

I think they'd be happy if we were all just color Blind and quit treating them like Dung!

Answer 7

It not all blacks. just the ignorant ones that are looking for a free hand out. These types have been recorded in all breeds of people.

Answer 8

Did you say 130 years ago? well...i guess i better get moving ive got to get my 40 acres and a mule.

Answer 9

You ask that as if you think Logic, Fairness, and Justice matter.

*** Master B, you are correct on all points, but you missed one.

There are some (many? few?) WHITES in this country who are descended from people who were sold into "indentured servitude", a form of Slavery, AFTER the Civil War.  In other words, not only do I have ZERO slaveowners in my family tree, MY ancestors were themselves slaves, and much more recently than Al Sharpton's.

Answer 10

star for you.

Answer 11

No one alive on Earth had anything to do with the events that occurred before we were born...