how much money should the west pay back for colonialism and slavery?
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they should practically handover their entire GDP of a decade, the rest will be forgiven. japan was compensated and germany is still paying for their 2nd world war attrocities....queen elizabeth still wears stolen african gold she inherited!! american indians should be allowed to hold a referendum on whether to allow the uninvited to go or stay........so on
178013
Slave labor and barter goods.
731135
No such thing as too much money in a free market capitalist system. Hmmm what would you suggest happen? Income redistribution, give some to the poor folks? Nope, they can go to work and make there own!\n\nDonna H down below me, for your information rich Americans are the most benevolent givers of any nation. We give to charities every year more money then the gross national product of most nations on this planet. So don't say they don't give anything back because that my dear.......is a lie!
173615
it helped them by providing a product they could export/sell back in europe.  this in turn provided money and an economy that allowed the colony to survive.
494736
The slave trade has been going on since before written history and continues to this very day.In days of old it was common practice to enslave a defeated enemy, in some civilizations you could even enslave someone for owing a debt. Civilization as we know it was built by slaves, ancient Eygpt, Persia, Geece, Rome, all built by slaves, at one point or another every group has been both the slave and the master. The african slave trade is by no means unique, slavery has been a fact of life in Africa since the beginning, slaves were always valued spoils of war among fighting tribes,Anyone that thinks the slave trade started because a boatload of europeans sailed down to Africa and started rounding up peaceful natives is sadly mistaken, at the time when european nations were getting involved in the slave trade there exsisted on the \nafrican continent a number of very large and powerful kingdoms, each with a large and powerful army, slaves were just one of a number of traded commodities, it should be noted that at the time when europeans were trading for slaves to sell in the americas, arab and african pirates were raiding european coastal villages for white slaves to sell in northern africa. There is no innocent guilt-free party here, everyone has blood on there hands. The slave trade in Africa continues to this day, why doesn't anyone talk about that? Slavery in america is a disgrace this country has to deal with, as are the segregation years that followed. This is still a fresh wound for america, slavery exsisted for three hundred years before the civil war and it's only been fifty years since the civil rights movement, we still have a long way to go, but giving away money doesn't solve anything, if you want to throw money at the problem throw it at education, health care, job training, things that actually do some good.I am not responsible for the sins of my forefathers, I cannot affect the past, only the future,personally, I think we need to spend more energy working on tomorrow than crying about yesterday.
652861
2 big dollars!! hold on it for another 100 years and you may get 20 dollars!! just kidding
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.
114839
Well, let's see, America owes something like 5 Trillion dollars to foreigners. Would you like to guess what color their skin is? (I'll give you a hint, only some of them are German.) Just to make this clear, I'll write that number with all the zeroes:\n\n$5,000,000,000,000.00\n\nSo if you are an American, and you are white, and you aren't independently wealthy already, you can pretty much kiss that lie you've been led to believe that being rich is something you are entitled to, or are even going to be able to earn. You simply can't compete. Get ready for a pretty long list of disappointments.
54086
Money, without it work is called slavery.  Offering bonuses for more work accomplished helps.  Also pay cuts for lowered production helps as well.
1087940
No amount of money in the entire world would be enough to pay ANY sitting president!  Think about HIS position for even a brief second!  And I do like "W"!  1-10?  I'd give him a high 8!  Rock on George!
1094594
No.  Those in power will abuse that power by lining their own pockets.  As a result, those that the money is intended for will never see the relief that it was supposed to bring.  Same thing happens around the world when money is sent in good faith for needy people, yet greedy bureaucrats step in.
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Um, Rod T, you do realise that you're talking about things that happened many generations ago?! How can you suggest that people nowadays deserve to pay for what their ancestors did way back then? That's ridiculous. \n\nAre you American? If so, with that logic, you would deserve to have some people come and "discover" your country, steal your food and take over your land completely, banishing you to little reservations in the desert.
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Canada : $1,665,576,000\nBritish Empire : 908,371 souls including Canadians
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15 YEARS - THE MONEY\n\nBUILD AN EMPIRE AND HELP PEOPLE.
137989
Then are we going to pay back the Irish, what about Indians?  No.  There comes a point where you have to just move forward and forget the evil done to your forefathers
847292
It would probably be better if the money ended up there first to buy livestock because it would be cheaper. \n\n$10.00 wouldn't buy much where you are but there it could buy several pigs and chickens and possibly alittle more. \n\nThere should be some organization that does just that for people in Africa because food is one of the main things they need.
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A long, long history of Western imperialism.