# Reparations Revisited **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 22, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reparations-revisited/681969 "2014-02-22T20:16:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 157
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reparations-revisited/681969/157 "2014-03-11T15:21:31Z")
> [@Honesty](#): > > Overall, blacks have been quite patient in waiting for the United States to get its act together. The U.S failed to reintegrate blacks into society during Reconstruction and it failed to thwart state-legislated Jim Crow laws prior to the Civil Rights Movement. Now, the U.S is reneging on the Civil Rights Movement by curtailing the Voting Rights Act, dismantling Affirmative Action programs, and cutting back on programs that help the poor. Moreover, the U.S are allowing states to exert their anti-minority policies without even a hint of challenge. Then, when we _finally_ get an African-American president, these same slave-holding states send an unprecedented wave of anti-government representatives to make sure that the President does not succeed. The farce is over. It has become crystal clear that a wide portion of the electorate does not want blacks to succeed and that government intervention is again necessary to balance the scales. > > I would like to revisit reparations as a means to free the United States of this problem once and for all. > > **Reparation (First Step)**: The U.S government shall pay moving and living expenses to all eligible blacks to voluntary migrate to any non-U.S region. The U.S government will pay the median income of their city of residence until death. Since you’re so adamant about reparations, you’ve completely overlooked an area of reparations that never gets addressed. Our southern ancestors legally owned property that was taken from them without due compensation by the northern government. We deserve due compensation for such outrageous theft, plus interest since 1865. Sound reasonable to you? It’s just as reasonable as the hogwash you spouted, so why don’t we simply consider it a wash and move on? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reparations-revisited/681969)._