What's the best way for America to make up for slavery?

I think it is a subconscious guilt that whites have. They feel that (and rightly so) that all that Black people, especially in this country, are constantly looking to pay them back for our condition. But we know we are not going to do anything to them, we will turn on one another first. That is historical. It seems it is easier to take our frustrations on those who are closer to us, those who we can actually touch, whether it is family or just someone on the block. WE have a low tolerance for each other.What's the best way for America to make up for slavery?
There's nothing to make up for. The ancestors of most Americans (including most whites) had no involvement in the slave trade. Further, slavery ended one hundred and fifty years ago. Jews started to flourish within a couple of years of the Holocaust, where their populations were decimated and they watched their own families tortured to death. Get over it.What's the best way for America to make up for slavery?
The way individuals can start is to stop acting like it didn't happen, isn't relevant, or shouldn't be talked about. There is no making up for it, because it happened and those who have died can never be brought back and the way people suffered can't be undone.





Reparations are controversial, but I don't think they're such a bad idea. Effective Affirmative Action programs should be used. The history of slavery should be taught differently and more fairly in schools.
A formal apology from the US government will be a great start!





Then every A.A. between the ages of 18-80, should write a letter to their Congress person, stating a RESOLUTION/SOLUTION to this unfortunate evil!





The solutions/resolutions should be broadcast nationally %26amp; registered US voters of ALL races should vote on them!
I will gladly give the blacks something. The freedom to go back to Africa where they belong. Today's blacks were never slaves, their ancestors were. So why should we pay them for their ancestors misery? They just have their hand out for an easy buck, as usual.
Not all whites have guilt. My family didn't arrive in America until after WWII. So why should i pay reparations? You think that there wasn't white on white racism? Try being of German decent shortly after WWII.
We see alot of blacks in the hollywood movies and in the music industry earning millions. What have they done for their fellow black people??? Shouldn't they start helping the poor blacks in starting small businesses???
I never owned any slaves and I don't owe any one anything.
Black people should get a discount on everything made of cotton
Affirmative Action.
White people have been used as slaves in the past. Theres no need to do anything about it.
get over it, move on, %26amp; learn from our mistakes that's the best thing Americans can do.
I don't feel guilty about it...I never had a slave. My ancestors came here in the early 1800's and never had slaves. So, no guilt here!
If Americans need to make up for things our country has done that were wrong, the list would be as long as the list of businesses looking for a bailout. But if there is a question of reparations for African Americans who were enslaved, I don't think I should be part of the list, cause I have ancestors who fought in the American Civil War on the Union side. But if we are going to start handing out reparations.....





I do kind of like the answer about giving all A. A.'s a discount on everything made out of cotton. First they would have to prove that their ancestors were actually enslaved and did not just come to the USA in the 1950's to go to school, like Obama's father.





Then we can give all the Mexican Americans a discount on buying fruit and vegetables, to make up for the fact that we were paid humiliation wages for decades.





Then we have the shabby treatment given to Native Americans. They should get reparations too. And the Japanese Americans whose ancestors the USA put in concentration camps during the 1940's. And women should get extra pay to make up for wage discrimination. And men should get something for the fact that they lost a couple of years of earning ability or education while they were in the armed forces.





Nah, we are better off calling it even.
Congress already formally apologized for slavery about a year or so ago. It's a little late, but better late than never. Doesn't seem like many people heard about it.





I have no guilty subconscious about slavery. It's a very sad part of our history, but I have no relatives and/or ancestry that had anything to do with it, so I don't see why I should feel guilt. Black people were not the only people ever enslaved. Even white people of European ancestry were enslaved not only in Europe, but in America too, at one point. Just not to the degree that black people were.





There are other races and nationalities that had it much worse than the black slaves, but I don't hear them ever complaining in this day in age. There were other people who went nearly extinct from the earth, yet they manage to pick themselves up and go, and don't keep blaming modern day people for the things that happened to their people in the past.





I don't know the best way for the country to make up for it, but you can't blame people now for things from the past that no one can do about. Also remember that it was the Africans that sold out their own people to the white Europeans for profit. If it weren't for Africans selling their own people into slavery, slavery would've never got to the scale that it did in America.