Should African Americans Recieve Reparations For Slavery

Pro's inability to counter them is on him. Rebuttal I: Pro's Case. Pro starts by explaining how Slavery boosted the Industrial Revolution. .. This, in no way implies companies today are the product of Slavery, or that they are responsible for slavery. Pro continues to fail in meeting his BOP. .. He MUST PROVE THAT WE ARE RESPONIBLE. After 150+ years, the benefits of slavery is impossibly small to measure. Pro is lost in understanding this. .. 150+ years is far too long to assume slavery's economic benefits still affect today's world in a notable way. In fact, Pro claims that slavery aided the Industrial Revolution, but in reality, Slavery hurt the ability to industrialize. (Seen later. )The primary issue with responsibility is that it implies that we are guilty of something. .. However, slavery was not illegal not the time. Even if Pro proved that because 150+ years ago, a small minority of people had slaves, and that this small Southern-restricted activity still largely impacts the industry of today, it doesn't mean slave owners were guilty of a crime, or that we would inherit that crime. The Law can not punish or sue people for activities their grandfathers did, or for activities that weren't illegal at the time. .. This is called Ex Post Facto. Pro also does nothing to show that immigrants afterwards are responsible for activities that their ancestors weren't around to see or help stop. Pro's case here is entirely an appeal to emotion. Argument I: Current Financial Aide. Pro drops this case. This case is crucial to my side, because it shows that there are alternatives already in play. .. Aide meant to help in issues that Black people face today. .. Even if Pro proved that the issues of today are caused by slavery, each of those issues has a corresponding program to help it. By dropping this case, Pro has guaranteed himself defeat by conceding that there are already programs in place. The resolution is negated. Pro dropped this argument. Argument II: Prior Reparations. Pro doesn't understand principles and precedence. .. A precedence doesn't imply it's good. .. Just that it's how it's done at the time. How it's done can still be bad. As my example went, the Right to own slaves was the precedence at the time. The precedence is bad and should be repealed. Pro's whole case is an appeal to tradition. Argument III: Free Labor. Pro starts by trying to target onto a minor typing error. He asks for evidence, but I provided evidence (for the first claim, the second being an error only in that I forgot the work "manufacturing. ") This is a weak attempt to find something to use against me, and is nitpicky. Pro claims that Slavery was done because it made sense. .. No, it was done because it was cheap. Economically, though, it was costly. Slavery has the same negative effects on an Economy has workers with low incomes, only magnified by the fact that low income workers still got paid. Slavery was profitable, but halted economic industrialization and created massive debts (1). Pro strawmans me. I never once claimed the money disappeared. I claimed that the sins of an industry does not stay with the dollar. .. Stating how I am not responsible for Drug Dealing just because, say 50 years back, the dollar I earned once ran through a drug dealer's hands. Pro's case is based entirely on the idea that we are responsible for the way each dollar we earn today was earned a hundred years ago. Not one dollar today is earned on the backs of slaves, nor do we owe our money to slaves. If anything, slavery costed us, and the South, money. [1] . http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu...[]Argument IV: Current Conditions. Pro has dropped his whole R2 case on Current Conditions. He now claims that White people are still indoctrinated with the idea that they are better than Black people. This is stereotyping, and racist. .. To start, opinions on Black people are hard to find, but I did find this: A Gallup poll stating that White People approve of marrying Black People by 87% (2). Also, almost half of all White People voted for Obama in the 2008 election (3). This includes voting for him over top White competitors in his own party as well. Pro's broad generalization fallacy doesn't hold true to reality. The rest of Pro's argument is a huge appeal to emotion. .. And is wrong. African American's have the single largest Civil Rights Group in the world (the NAACP) and have a massive culture to their own, including in Harlem. To claim that Black People have no voice is false, and irrelevant, since whether they speak or not is on them. Although turning on the news during any case where a police officer shot a black man will show just how much of a voice black people get. Pro's case is based on demonizing white people and making us feel sorry for falsified stats. His case is an appeal to emotion and a broad fallacy. He has also dropped his whole case. [2] . http://www.gallup.com...[3] . http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu...[]Conclusion:Pro has dropped my winning argument: Argument I: Financial Aide. Pro's Argument II: Prior Reparations case is an appeal to tradition. Pro's Argument III: Free Labor case is false, and does not hold up to history. Pro dropped his whole Argument IV: Current Conditions case, switching to an appeal to emotion, and demonizing white people. I have shown that we do not inherit the legal consequences of actions our ancestor did, especially when they weren't illegal. I have shown that there are already programs that aide in fixing issues that Black people face today. The Resolution is not affirmed.