Originally Posted by u-Bob

- I was under the impression they had already passed away. So you want the gov to pay their grandchildren?
- Why should the current generation pay for something some of their forefathers did?
- Do you think all slaves should be compensated? or just the black ones? You are aware of the fact that 50+% of all slaves in North America were white, right?
- An Irish slave was worth less than a black slave (cuz they would be literally worked to death). so would an Irish slave deserve a bigger compensation than a black slave cuz he suffered more?
- Does a slave who had to work in his master's house deserve less compensation than a slave who had to work picking cotton?
- How do you determine the different degrees of suffering and the appropriate amount to compensate.......?
- Who should pay compensation? The black tribesmen who sold their prisoners of war into slavery? The arabs who raided black villages? The slave owners in the US? Only the white slave owners or also the black slave owners?
- How far do you go back in history? The Greeks had slaves, the Romans had slaves,... Should Italy compensate France, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Israel,... for what happened in imperial Rome?
- Should Spain, France, Portugal, itally,... demand compensations from Morocco, Algeria,... because of what the Barbary pirates did?
- Why stop at slavery?