Given the socio-economic climate in the U.S. today would reparations to the Native Americans be feasible or?
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If you are talking about giving the Native Americans each a sum of money as reparations, even if it is feasible, it is a bad idea.  The money will be spent and the reparations will do nothing in the long run.  Reparations should be given in the form of better schools and better job training for the Native Americans living on the reservations, so that they can get good jobs, compete in today's society, and help themselves.  The schools they have now are awful.  \n\nI especially like cheddar and Monterrey jack.  I am not too fond of Swiss.  I think feta is odd because it doesn't not taste or look like cheese.
1185097
An apology and a house is good enough for me!\n\nJews got and are still getting reparations for WWII and in comparison to slavery that war did not last 400 years.
832169
Lower crime in America.  Lower unemployment in America.  We would probably be about 20 years behind in technology as the slaves freed allowed us to create assymbly lines from watching the work they did in the field.  The assymbly line, helped forward production and led to many more new technologies.\n\nDefinately a lower hostility between Blacks and Whites, some people can't leave the past in the past.
308130
how cool would america be if it was left alone and the native americans still lived there. america is just a society built on money, material objects and guns.
1134785
Don't think it's gonna happen, at least not in the US in the near future. Most people at heart are still  racists, tough they may deny it. Unfortunate, but many of em wouldn't want the off-spring of slaves to rule over their good ole white country.\n\nst
1032591
Remember that originally there were more Native Americans than Caucasians.  The country is just restoring its natural balance.
514434
absolutely, Mexico is a good example.  Where a few super rich control the government.  Have drug lords controling the rest.  Keep the populous in abject poverty.  The brutality is over whelming.  The masses could over throw the few and take back there government and establish one that isn't so corrupt.  That would benefit the people.\nimmigrateing to America while understandable is hardly the answer.
350374
Absolutly not!! We wouldn't take the states if bush wrapped it up and  gave it to us with a bow. The states would screw up our economic triumphs and social gains. The us would only be a step in the wrong direction.
746247
they do everyday in the form of grants , scholarships , affirmative action and the ability to be racist without anyone accusing them .  welfare seems to be a pretty good form of reparations nowadays .
715386
Perhaps a refounding of CC camps may be what we need to put us back on track. We could rebuild lost infrastructure, improve existing infrastructure, build a new workforce with experience, and pride in the fact that they have helped to make the nation of tomorrow. It would be an excellent foot in the door for government job seekers, would make the money spent mean even more. It would help the poor stop being poor, and satisfy the conservative idealogy of giving a hand up to those in need. Indeed we need to review FDR's New Deal, and see what is still usable toward solving our problems, today. \n\nOn the topic of people with disabilities, they can be given office and admin jobs, where they telecommute from their places of living, if need be.\n\nThe homeless would be given a roof and a meal, with medical coverage.\n\nI honestly don't see how both parties can't agree on a subject like this.
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It depends on the American taxpayers, If they are willing to foot the bill, anything is possible. The more money we can throw at the task, the faster it can be accomplished
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If anti-reparations advocates want contemporary proof that African Americans have been harmed by the United States government causing them irreparable damage and making them eligible for (reparations), then here it is. Reparations Central’s argument is about African American constitutional rights that were violated by white people and condoned by the U.S. government in a recent time period (1865-1968).  During the Jim Crow Era, the daily lives of African Americans were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression, discrimination, segregation in all walks of life. Especially in public facilities and institutions, where they were systematically demeaned, disenfranchised, and disempowered, condemning them to second-class citizenship.\nYes, they should receive reparations.  Even Germany gave reparations to the Holocaust survivors.  Why should there be any difference for African Americans?
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The government cannot allow the NA to prosper or to be promoted.  Entire cities and huge regions of land were taken by illegal means (even according to U.S. laws) and so the NAs are still the legal owners.\n\nIf the NAs gained prominence and brought the property right issue to Washington in a challenging way, it would be a catastrophe for the U.S.\n\nThe U.S. Government figured a way to solve the problem once and for all time.  Just refuse to recognize that there ARE any NAs and since there is nobody living that can claim to be Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickesaw, etc., then anything owed to the people has been terminated.\n\nThere are a lot of folks who are descendants of the wronged NAs but as long as they are not recognized as such, its just too bad for them and good for us.\n\nGenocide is very evil unless it concerns the Native Americans in the United States.  Money determines what is right and what is wrong and a lot of money is at stake here.\n\nThe idea is that the U.S. is the "great American melting pot" that elimates terms such as African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Polish-Americans, Italian-Americans and Native-Americans.\n\nWe are all Americans and as long as nobody can lay claim to any previous debts owed to their people, then the U.S. doesn't owe anything to anybody.\n\nJohnny
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We owe our country's success as a producing nation to the sweat of our early laborers.  Today, we still out-produce every country on most every good and service.  And blacks are still broke, sick, and under-represented.  We still haven't made reparations for what we owe.  They aren't blaming whites, they just want (and deserve) their money.
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how can you pay someone today for the damage done to their ancestors? you cant put a price on human suffering, you can however create a society that promotes equality for all.  living in N.Ireland and being a catholic,  we have had to fight for our civil rights but how can i be financially recompensed for the way in which a government miss treated my parents and grandparents?  equal opportunity is the way forward but that is easier said than done. while those in power are still blighted by their bigoted ideas which have been passed down through the generations we will be destined to be treated as 2nd class citizens. so it is up to the individual to promote themselves and not be caught up in spiral which will  consume their thoughts and lives, rise up and show the governments that inflicted such pain on us and our ancestors that we are survivors, we are still here and have a part to play in society  and that is a quality which has been born of your mistreatment of us and others.
651270
depends on the tribe. most native american tribes have no word for it. they have no words for anything that suggest inequality, as it was a concept that was alien to them.
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I'd look at the Monroe Doctrine (i think).  It has a statement by a former president that says that the American dream should be for the country to touch the atlantic and the pacific.  \nUS rail system encouraged travelers & those moving by providing efficient transportation.\nFed Govt encouraged this by buying, annexing, and winning by force property that is now the United States.\nNative Americans presented a barrier and discouraged those moving to live in a place where raids were frequent.  The US should have made terms with the Native Americans to make peace in the beginning.\nImmigrants went where ever jobs were needed, so they were always ready to move somewhere else if they could get a job.\nHope it helps.