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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (202848)	6/22/2021 3:16:42 PM
From: Lane3	2 Recommendations Recommended By bentway Brumar89 Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362612

You're suggesting then, that living people today owe a debt to the estates of slaves and that such estates somehow owe those debts to generations of heirs that followed. Retroactively. The debt is to the estates of slaves. And estates have normally been divided among progeny where there is no will. (I got a small chunk of a cousin's estate that way once. I'm quite sure he didn't intend that. I had not been in contact with him since we were kids and even then not much. But the states have rules for that and I was on the distribution list.) How do you reckon it can ever be paid? I suggested earlier that you might start by according their progeny some dignity by acknowledging the debt and by quit bashing their culture and character. When you start talking about debts and estates, green eyeshades are required. I warned you off of green eyeshades and your prism, which is because the former is about dollars and cents and the latter is from the vantage point of pinning the tail on the debtor. You've gotten yourself in a box where everything is about you writing a check to some Black person and a degenerate one, to boot. That is your context and you are framing my words incorrectly. Think outside the box. Broadly there are remuneration, reparation, compensation, reconciliation, reconstruction, apology, and whatever to work with in settling a debt. First step is to acknowledge the debt. Next step is to quit exclusively blaming the victim going forward.