Buying Out Slavery In African Americans

Buying Out Slavery Slavery originated from the mother land known by the name of Africa, slavery was in the midst of African communities. These communities held slaves because they were prisoners of war or (pow) for short. Slavery is having ownership over an individual, or group of people. These owners control where the slave or slaves live and work, and often sell or trade amongst other slave owners. This type of slavery is known as chattel slavery, which is a traditional form and is very rare to find because it has been abolished. Slavery has been haunting the world for centuries and has happened to end in 1865. Even though it ended in 1865 the freed slaves still faced complicated situations. Jim crow laws were set and African Americans
Dervorn Kelly is a scholar from Rappahannock Community College, and he thinks that the descendants from slaves should get reparations because that would mean free education, life insurance, and free financial aid for any school in the US. This idea would be terrible; it would be riots all across the world because people will feel like they are slave descendants too. Another scholar by the name of Donte Williams thinks that African Americans should get reparations because of the long years of suffering. The money could be used to build broken window cities, and the money could be used to further education of the poor. This is not a bad idea but people should think about who the government will tax and who they will not tax. African Americans should not receive reparations from the U.S. government for slavery because people would spend money on useless things, it won’t heal the damaged that was caused for generations and the government wouldn’t know who to
files their taxes, when thinking about reparations who would they tax? This question ponders the community and some may say it’s from descendants of slave owners. This would be a huge problem because who are the descendants, and who are the slave descendants. Anyone can claim they’re from a certain blood line. An unknown source from The New York Times website wrote, “Payments will have to come from taxpayers, who have no culpability for those past crimes and little, if any, of the benefit.” (1). This statement could mean more than one thing. One, the proposal for the paying of reparations was aimed for the whites who ancestors were owners of slaves during the slavery period. Two, are these people going to be okay with paying these amounts of money for something they didn’t do? Last but not least, will this settle the race conflict that’s going on or would the world still be the