What should be given because of ancestral claims?
Countries/plots of land should be given to those who claim their ancestors once lived there but land was taken.
Money should be given to those who claim their ancestors were enslaved,killed, robbed and etc.
Apologies from the government IE the tax payers to the descendants whose ancestors were wronged.
Ancestral claims have no bearing on today.
other/I do not know
I picked "Ancestral claims have no bearing on today." This is basically the principal that you yourself were not wronged so you do not get anything from me or anyone else since we did not wrong you. No reparations, no giving land and no apologies for things that happened a century or two ago.
I think reparations for things done by far past generations are stupid. I don't think there is any harm in admitting we made mistakes(ie slavery) and maybe apologizing that this country made such a mistake, though even that is not needed or really should be a priority. I would not be upset such an apology was made, but I would not push for it. All in all, any such apology would be valueless. Based on that, I voted other in your poll.
What should be given because of ancestral claims?
Countries/plots of land should be given to those who claim their ancestors once lived there but land was taken.
Money should be given to those who claim their ancestors were enslaved,killed, robbed and etc.
Apologies from the government IE the tax payers to the descendants whose ancestors were wronged.
Ancestral claims have no bearing on today.
other/I do not know
I picked "Ancestral claims have no bearing on today." This is basically the principal that you yourself were not wronged so you do not get anything from me or anyone else since we did not wrong you. No reparations, no giving land and no apologies for things that happened a century or two ago.
That's just stupid.You have to remember that apologies are an aknowledgement of guilt, which is were a claim of liability can be laid.
Have to be careful with those things.
You have to remember that apologies are an aknowledgement of guilt, which is were a claim of liability can be laid.
Have to be careful with those things.
You have to remember that apologies are an aknowledgement of guilt, which is were a claim of liability can be laid.
Have to be careful with those things.
Liable to who? There is no one alive who was a slave in the US. There is no American Indian alive whose land we took. I could maybe see in the case of those interred during WW@, but no one is around to claim any reparations.
Not really, the gov can issue an official apology without having to give any kind of land. Because the country can't deny that we are guilty of these things, but an apology would be acknowledging the mistake and moving past it. Though I wouldn't push for an apology, I wouldn't be upset about it.
If there is no person, that is alive, to apologize to; why do it?
Who are you satisfying?
I did not say I thought it was a good idea.
Entire countries aren't guilty of anything, individuals are.
I say applogies should be given, more because they show intent by governments to uphold advances in human rights and an effort to not repeat wrongs of the past, more than anything.
I think Native Americans should be allowed to run their reservations as sovereign territory (most local, state-wide, and national laws do not apply) and that Native Americans and their descendants should not have to pay any federal personal income tax.
I'm only for reparations for Native Americans, as the American government has had a horrible history of making and breaking treaties with the Native Americans. While the current government hasn't done anything to the Native Americans, our government has, and has broken many treaties that Native American tribes have signed in good faith, which were broken by administrations so that European-Americans could benefit. This is wealth denied to those Native Americans families who could have invested that wealth and build it up over the generations. Thus why I feel they would be justified in getting reparations of some kind.
I think having better sovereignty over their land and no need to pay federal personal income tax would be the best way to provide reparations to them. Thus, we don't need to give them any land nor any money, but rather just allow them to keep more of the wealth they earn and to treat their lands as more independent territory so they can live as they wish.
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