Slavery was an evil that was rightfully abolished and it is part of history now. Nobody today is a slave or has a living relative who was a slave and the people who enslaved black people are long gone. If you were to ask for reparations who would they pay them to? The Nazis killed 6 million Jews in horrific circumstances and they paid reparations to the survivors for the suffering they endured because there were survivors. Slavery ended 150 years ago I can't begin to understand the psychological strain that must have on the people but I think white people paid a blood price for it in the American Civil War where many white boys were killed and maimed to free black people.
I'm sorry, but that's a ridiculous take. Yes, there is no-one alive now who directly experienced slavery; but all Black people alive in the US now live in a socio-economic that directly comes from racism, the segregation that followed it, and the lip-service to equity without much actual progress that followed the official end of segregation. Similarly, everyone in the US right now lives in a society that was in many ways built on slavery. The US is now one of the richest countries in the world, and it can thus reasonably be argued that this wealth comes for an important part from how the US as a state used Black people and Indigenous Peoples for their purposes. Consequently, it is extremely reasonable to ask the current US government, as the current representative of the US as a state, to direct a significant portion of that wealth towards making society, communities, and individual lives better for Black people. (I might add there that something similar would apply to Indigenous Peoples: their suppression, eradication, dehumanization, etc. was another factor in US economic growth.)
So no, White people dying in the Civil War does not quite compensate for slavery. (Even ignoring the fact that the North's army also include Black people.)
I speak out for BLM where I can. Most people I've spoken to around this region consider BLM to be thugs and criminals. Whatever sympathy there was for black people after the George Floyd incident disappeared with the daily news of looting and burning and destruction. People are shocked by the actions of the rioters and they care for public order too much to understand why these acts of destruction are in any way justified. I would point out the difference between those who are seeking justice and equal rights and the mindless thugs who loot and burn but it seems that there is a lot of support for these thugs so maybe I'm wrong. I'm not even going to address your absurd post about big shops being looted but its no big deal because they have insurance. Looting is the criminal act of a thug that should be condemned by any right thinking person.
If you think looting, burning, and destruction have been a daily and dominant occurrence in BLM protests, then you should really reconsider your news sources. There have been massive and continuous protests all across the US, and also in many other countries, since the death of George Floyd. The extent of the rioting has been very small in comparison. So if your sources lead you to believe that BLM is predominantly turned into rioting, then you should try and get your news elsewhere, cause you have been lied to. (As e.g. Fox News absolutely does.)
I'll also go back to comments from
@villain,
@Adisa, and
@JPRouve: there have been protests for decades, yet very little has improved for Black people since segregation officially ended. (I keep saying 'officially', cause far too little actually changed in practice to say that segregation really ended.)
@Adisa quoted this "Until we have peace, you won't get justice" line, which I suppose you agree with. But as they pointed out, the point is to get back the peace - and then do nothing, cause 'people obviously aren't that unhappy so why would we bother'? So as
@JPRouve keeps asking: what would you do in that circumstance, where peaceful protesting is doing virtually nothing to help you regain your humanity in society? And finally, as
@villain, pointed out, MLK understood the violence very well, calling rioting the language of the unheard (in that video that was posting). If you think that's an clear rejection of rioting, then I'm afraid you're simply wrong.
