Reparations

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Reparations Questionnaire

This is a questionnaire designed to explore the empathy and apathy toward African-Americans receiving reparations for Chattel slavery. I am asking you to take part in this study and to answer each question as accurately and extensively as possible. Thank you so much for your time and participation.

Reparations is defined as the making of amends for wrong or injury done: compensation in money, material, labor, etc., payable by a defeated country to another country or to an individual for loss suffered during or as a result of war or some grievous injustice. To restore to good condition.

1. Age ____36__

2. White male_X___ Black male ____

3. Marital status _____ single ______ divorced______ married_x____ widowed______

4. Highest grade level completed: _____ less than high school ____ some high school

_____high school graduate_____ some college____ associates degree____ bachelors degree___x__ post graduate degree_______

5. Occupation: __Bank Manager____________________________________

6. How do you think African-Americans are still impacted by the effects of Chattel slavery?

I don’t think they impacted by events that happened 4,5,6, generations ago.

7. What is your response to the African-American population deserving reparations as a result of the abuses of Chattel slavery.

Bunch of crap

8. How do you feel and or what do you think about this statement. “The United States government has in some ways supported and allocated reparations to the Jewish people as a result of the Jewish Holocaust and they have allocated reparations for the Japanese-Americans as a result of WWII. In light of this, The U.S. government should bare the costs of a reparations program for the descendants of American slaves.”

I don’t know much about reparations for Jewish peoples, but I could understand if it was given during the 1st or 2nd generations, but come on America will go bankrupt if the government gave every...