It sounds like someone found out a very uncomfortable, inconvenient and undeniable truth about their own family and as always, hit dogs will bark.
I don't put much stock in the Bible or Christianity since it was under both that this fucked up system of chattel slavery was created and justified.. and conveniently expects us to forgive those who did this to us, when they couldn't forgive Mary Turner, Nat Turner (not sure if there is a relation, but there was most definitely a plantation) Emmitt Till, or any of the Black people they lynched (for whatever b.s. reasons the Carolyn Bryants, Fannie Taylors, Mabel Hallams etc. among them had lied about causing our cities, homes and lives to be razed and pillaged), or the Black preachers they lynched, for not reading passages from the Slave Bible, which had the passages about revolting against slavery and fighting against your oppressors removed.
Quite frankly, and (I don't say this with pride) as someone who had slave owning (<= this part..) and enslaved ancestors (in the sense that I largely want NOTHING to do with my Scottish, Welsh and English heritage after a genealogical search recently in which I discovered that I have quite a few Scottish Genghis Khans in my family (it wasn't a Romeo and Juliet thing either) one of my 13th great-grandfathers was in his 50s and lost his entire family on the voyage, and fathered kids with all of his slaves, (my ancestor was barely into adolescence at the very young age she gave birth to my 12th great-grandfather) and then remarried, today he has more than 1,000 descendants, myself included) and I have a few Presidential and congressional grandfathers, uncles and cousins both alive and dead for that reason as well..)
I think we should revisit this. If these slave owning descendants can continue to benefit from the wealth, power and the fucked up laws in place because of both Slavery and Jim Crow, who inspired Hitler for the Holocaust, (whose victims also got reparations, and STILL do) then those who descended from the people who built this country, and their descendants should too.
Every group that has been wronged by the "settlers" (read terrorists) has been compensated by this country for their wrongdoings. I know this because whether we are talking about Native, White, etc. I have seen the receipts myself from my own family. Very few of my Black ancestors became slave owners after emancipation and it because they were desperate to unite their families after they had been torn apart, and unfortunately they never reunited, many even put out newspaper ads. It wasn't like the Europeans who came over, and were too lazy to work on the lands they raped and stole from the Natives.. or that they wanted to be like the White slaveowners and to that end, even the Natives were given their reparations twice.
One of my third great-grandmothers who was among the last of her tribe's survivors, worked tirelessly to get her tribe recognized by NC and in the late 70's, she succeeded, or at least my second great-granduncle did. Today, all of her descendants are recognized today because of her work. She wasn't from one of the tribes that owned slaves though.
The Natives got it for the land theft, AND for owning slaves after it was abolished. Every group has gotten their reparations except Black people, even though much of their own histories are linked to us as well. It was the Chinese and Freedmen who built our railroads here in the 1800s, and it was the Chinese who got their reparations.
The Japanese received their reparations from the interment camps. We were placed in those camps as well after the Civil War, and in Natchez, Mississippi's case, it was by the Union Army.. and there were many of those camps. What about all of the race massacres inflicted on us during, before and after the Red Summer of 1919? Somehow, when it comes to us, we should just "get over it" and "move on" but it was A-OK for everyone else to get theirs, especially when it pertained to us. Everything that happened to these groups, also happened to us, but everyone is largely against us getting ours and seem to be hellbent on gaslighting us on why we shouldn't. Why is that?
Especially when Black people have been allies to these people when they themselves were wronged by this country both within and outside of the United States. Hell, even the new slaves, who picked up where we left off in building this country largely came over in the 1960s, because of the policies my ancestors fought hard for when they were fighting for their own civil rights.
Slavery might have been 400 years ago, but not everything else that came after it and still exists today. Not the Black Codes, not Jim Crow, not the Freedmen's Bank in which anyone who had money in it, (not only Freedmen, but free Whites as well) lost everything, not the forced sterilizations in hospitals and jails, a.k.a. the Mississippi Appendectomies, that weren't limited to Mississippi alone.. not the Tignon Laws that are basically still in place today (only a few states have outlawed discrimination against our natural hair) but less explicit as they were in the 1700s, not the Tuskegee Experiment, not any of the medical torture that both enslaved and kidnapped Freed Black women had to endure, not the inventions we had to share the credit with White people, because LEGALLY we weren't allowed to own our own patents, without sharing the credit with White people, not the flooding of our cities, like Lake Lanier in Georgia (and others) which is basically a mass water grave for the Black people who lived there, and were killed because the White people wanted the land, not redlining, not gentrification, or any of the things that came before, after and were inspired by slavery, and racism and still exist until this point in present day. Especially the harassment that many White people feel entitled to dole out toward Black people for living their daily lives. It was the Jim Crow Era, that gave rise to the Slave Patrols, who are today's police (and they treat Black people the same way their slave patrolling ancestors did) and thereby deputized White people, to harass Black people. This still happens today and these are just a few of the things that Black people should be compensated for, and the tab is still running to this day.
My great-grandparents were sharecroppers. They were a part of the Great Migration, and came to in NY in 1940 to flee racial violence in the South. Much of my family were farmers and were self employed because they had their own land, I know this from the Census's I had seen before they were here. But their land was stolen, not just by the White people who burned down my great-grandmother's childhood home, (it was likely the Klan, because they were very active in the part of NC that my family was from, but they also had their banks allow them to "take over the abandoned land" for pennies on the dollar, as if the former had nothing to do with it and then their insurance companies REFUSED to cover the damages because these MASSACRES where classified as riots, so that they wouldn't have to pay anything to the victims.
This is what happened after many of these events and it left many Black people penniless.. including Tulsa Race Massacre and today these same banks intentionally undervalue properties owned by Black people and then when they are forced to sell at a loss, they turn around and pay top dollar to properties owned by White people in the same position. This has led to a massive amount of Black wealth being lost from post-Slavery to the 1960s.. and it is the cause of gentrification today.
Most of my Black ancestors were here before the Europeans came over, but they were reclassed as Negro on the Census, so that they weren't allowed to own their land. Many were barred from being recognized as Native, even though there were recognized by their own tribe before they decided to segregate from them, under the Pocahontas clause and the Racial Integrity Act. The only way they'd be recognized is if they were "civilized" (meaning agreed to the European's terms and were forced to marry them into their tribes.)
The 13th Amendment's ratification basically criminalized free life for Black people after chattel slavery was abolished.. and so, if Black people did anything that the White people didn't like, they ended up in jail and were re-enslaved, this is the case today, and we can see that much with the disparity in policing and sentencing.
The bottom-line here is that, if people believe that they should get their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents inheritance for starting a company that lead to great wealth and success for the family, even and especially when they themselves had nothing to do with it, then the Black people whose ancestors who ACTUALLY built this country, and all its institutions, and the stolen wealth, (see Tulsa Race Massacre, et. al.) labor and land lead this country to be the political and financial powerhouse that it is today, then so should the descendants of the enslaved.
After that happens, then it is time to tackle on the laws that were put in place solely to harass and keep Black people oppressed under this fucked up system. This is the right thing to do. If trauma from these events are passed down to us in our mother's womb, then we should be compensated for that trauma in the same way that others have been for theirs.
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