(01-17-2021 03:01 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(01-17-2021 11:59 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Nobody alive today was ever a slave or a slave owner. Normally, damages is based on placing you back into the position you were prior to being damaged. An actual slave would have a massive case for damages. But a descendant? The biggest lingering fallout (or "damage") for people who are the descendants of slaves would be dislocation. They are in America, rather than where they would have been—probably somewhere on the African continent. Given that the median income here is $55,000 and in most African nations the median income is less than 10K (and median household wealth numbers are similar) I’m not sure slave descendants have a case for damages that extends much beyond an emotional appeal.

There are slaves all over the world... So yeah plenty of people are born into slavery now and plenty of slave owners now.. Just nothing we (as Americans) are responsible for.

Correct. Im of course referring to only slaves in the US that were part of a system of legal slavery sanctioned by the US government until the Civil War.