Nice post @humanearl. I really love this. God bless you. I really wish you success on your quest.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” In so many ways, the American experience is the African American experience. In every development of our country’s history, every step that has made America better is tied to African American lives, patriotism and sacrifice. Indeed, profits from slavery provided a reservoir of capital that allowed America to grow into a world power. The image of America as a just society is stained by the lack of moral reparations and fair treatment for a group of its earliest and most loyal laborers and residents.
That is why the moral debt is what most concerns me. African Americans helped force America to live up to its stated ideals. This nation’s sense of citizenship, its notion of liberty, its understanding of justice for all owes a debt to the African American; these are the people who believed in the promise of America, and who, by their struggles, helped make that promise more accessible to all.
How does a nation repay its moral debt? The greatest repayment would be to ensure that African Americans now and generations from now, have access to quality education, affordable health care and neighborhoods that are safe. That would make all those who once suffered smile, because they didnt suffer in vain. I really love looking forward to your kind of reasoning. Really have a lot to say, but let me rest it here. Thank you foe giving me the opportunity to voice how i feel.
Reparations for African americans would be in the trillions of dollars. That's how much we have contributed to the building of this country. I'm glad you voiced how you feel. We need healthy and honest dialogue regarding history and the reality many people face today.
Yeah, i couldnt agree more @humanearl. The accomplishments of African Americans and their contributions to our society have
been left out of most history books. Therefore, most African Americans do not know of
their contributions to history.
Slaves performed all kinds of jobs within the United States of America. They worked
on plantations and in the towns or cities at various kinds of occupations whether they
were skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled. The slave labor helped to build the United States
into the great country it is today. Enslaved African labor was necessary for the survival
of European colonial economies in the Americas from the 16th through the 19th centuries.
The slaves from West and Central Africa imported the knowledge of growing rice,
which grew well in their land, to South Carolina and Georgia. The slaves taught the slave
owners how to cultivate this crop. Rice did not grow in Great Britain. Other foods that
came from Africa were watermelon, black-eyed peas, sorghum, okra, and millet.