Posted on 01/24/2015 6:04:06 AM PST by alexmark1917
The United States is gradually, but unrelentingly, destroying part of itself. The facts to support this are well-documented, told in many ways from past to present.
The most egregious example of Americide is our country's treatment of African-Americans. Almost everyone agrees about the evils of slavery, once dismissed simply as a Peculiar Institution. But a debate goes on about reparations, with passionate arguments on both sides, ranging from a demand for a Reparations Superfund for jobs and education, to a claim that blacks actually benefited from slavery because of the years of 'reparations' received through poverty programs.
Reparations opponents insist that there is no clear modern connection to the era of slavery. But there is a connection, and it's exhibited in the many profitable corporations -- manufacturers, banks, insurance, railroad -- that had their roots in slavery. Reparations haven't been paid, or, if they have been extended in the form of poverty programs, they haven't worked. Standards of living for blacks have worsened relative to whites in the past half-century. Many of the modern-day practices of our free-market capitalist system are at least partly responsible for this.
1. United States Corporations Are Partly Responsible for the Sale of Human Beings
Horace Greeley, Editor of the New York Tribune and an abolitionist, described a slave auction: "The negroes [Blacks] were examined with as little consideration as if they had been brutes indeed; the buyers pulling their mouths open to see their teeth, pinching their limbs to find how muscular they were, walking them up and down to detect any signs of lameness, making them stoop and bend in different ways that they might be certain there was no concealed rupture or wound.."
The kidnapped human beings on the auction block, 500 of them, stood nervously waiting as the buyers lit cigars and studied their log books, scanning the list of 'chattel' available to them, preparing to start the bidding. The facial expression of each person commodified into a slave stepping on the auction block was the same -- anguish about an unknown future, despair at the thought of never again seeing their loved ones.
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Corporations linked to the present day had a lot to do with these slave sales:
----Wall Street: Banks made loans to slave owners, processed transactions through the New York Cotton Exchange, and held slave auctions outside their doors. JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Wachovia (Wells Fargo) admitted the roles of their predecessor banks.
----Manufacturing: The textile industry was so vital to northeastern states that the mayor of New York City turned against the Union, encouraging citizens to support "our aggrieved brethren of the Slave States."
----Insurance: Companies like Aetna and New York Life issued policies protecting slaves as property.
----Railroad: Predecessors of the Norfolk Southern leased slaves for year-long terms of hard labor.
2. United States Corporations Are Partly Responsible for the First Vagrancy Laws
These are the Pig Laws of a century or more ago, which penalized trivial - sometimes nonexistent - offenses, in a similar manner as the Broken Windows policies employed today. A 'vagrancy' offense got 22-year-old Green Cottenham arrested in 1908.
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3. United States Corporations Are Partly Responsible for WW2 Slave Labor
Slave labor in the Nazi years generated massive profits for many of our most prominent corporations.
----Ford Motors: Henry Ford, who had published "The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem," was a friend of Nazi Germany. His company used prison labor to produce a third of the military trucks for the German army. Ford's German affiliate was called an "arsenal of Nazism."
----General Motors worked with the German company that built Auschwitz.
----IBM was responsible for the punch card machines that allowed the Nazis to tabulate train shipments to the death camps.
----Numerous other companies were involved. General Electric partnered with a German company that used slave labor, and invested in the builder of gas chambers. Kodak used prison labor for the manufacture of German arms. Nestle admitted acquiring a company that used forced labor during the war.
4. United States Corporations Are Partly Responsible for Today's Deadening Racial Oppression
They may not be the mine shafts of Tennessee Coal, but modern private prisons such as Corrections Corporation of America and G4S generate massive profits, selling inmate labor to corporations like Chevron, Bank of America, AT&T, and IBM. Nearly a million prisoners work in factories and call centers for as little as 17 cents an hour.
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/paul-buchheit-the-united-states-is-committing-suicide
US Economy Will Implode, Helpless in Face of 'Financial Pearl Harbor
Peter Schiff warns the United States will win the global currency war, but we will pay a heavy price for the “victory.”
Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital and a long-time critic of the Federal Reserve, says the U.S. economy will “implode” due to the measures enacted by our government to win the war, including artificially low interest rates and multiple rounds of quantitative easing (printing money).
The reason, Schiff explains, is the current monetary policy is unsustainable. “We're broke. We owe trillions. Look at our budget deficit, look at the debt-to-GDP (ratio), the unfunded liabilities,” Schiff added. “If we were in the eurozone, they would kick us out.”
Agreeing with Schiff’s pessimistic outlook is Marc Faber, the noted Swiss economist and investor. Faber says the United States is facing a systemic crisis, and “eventually everything will collapse.” Like Schiff, Faber also holds the Federal Reserve responsible for the country’s problems, but acknowledges that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke isn’t alone in destroying the dollar.
http://www.moneynews.com/MKTNews/americas-economic-pearl-harbor/2013/02/14/id/490495/
you read the article and you begin to believe the War Between the States has not been fought yet blacks are still in slavery, Lincoln is alive yet and america consists of what was at that time 33 States. What next the Dred Scott Decision was not made, America is still an agrarian society and basically the Indians still live on reservations . Gee North Dakota, South Dakota and many of the states doe not exist yet. Boy me thinks the author is stuck on stupid.
In MHO the debate about reparations is the most dangerous “debate” possible.
It attacks the core foundation of the Republic - each individual is responsible for his/her actions and can not be held responsible for the acts of others - past or present.
Yes slavery is bad. But, where is there a living person who suffered through American Slavery? To give you a hint they would have to be over 150 years old. If you are talking about slavery elsewhere it is up to those nations to answer their own reparation debate.
As far as American Corporations/Companies having to pay reparations. Another false argument for the same reasons.
BTW - if we are discussing reparations shouldn’t we at least call it by its correct name - “wealth transfer to prevent racial riots”?
BTW 2 - If we are going to “transfer wealth to prevent racial riots” shouldn’t the recipients of that wealth transfer repatriate most of their bribe money to the survivors of the Union Army who died and were crippled freeing them from slavery? The same logic used in the article applies here too.
IMHO there was only one legal reparation. It was when the American Government paid pennies on the dollar to the American Citizens impression during World War II. You known the American citizens of Japanese ancestry who lost generational wealth, property, businesses, and money when the Democrats in California and DC branded all of them threats to American security in early 1942. There the reparations were paid directly to those who suffered the losses not their great-great-great-great grandchildren.
One final thought on the subject of reparations for slavery - the logical end of this argument is the reestablishment of a feudal society where your position within that society is not determined by your actions, or your fathers actions, or your grandfather’s but by an accident of birth based on where your great-great-great-great grandfather was doing on April 8, 1865.
April 8, 1865? Why that date? That was the day BEFORE Gen Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9th, and marked the “official” end of the Civil War and slavery in general in the Republic.
Each time someone opens their big mouths about slavery and reparations we should have a year-by-year listing of the costs we’ve spent on reparations!!! How about stay in school, stay married, stay employed, stay off drugs, stay within your budget and above all, stay with GOD!!!....fill your churches again and it will be given unto you!!
This might mean that you cannot afford the huge TV, cable to go with it, name brand hood clothes, hair and mani-pedi’s, etc. that you get cause your food and lodging are mostly paid each month!!
WAKE UP!!!
“divert the public’s attention from the problem and keep them [the public] occupied, amused, and ignorant”
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Bread and circuses. Where have we seen this before?
Blacks have already been given “reparations” by living here instead of backward, corrupt, disease-ravaged Africa
What they choose to do with that opportunity is their own decision. They are “owed” nothing further, not “affirmative action” nor quota-driven “diversity”
Either put up or STHU
Or leave
Works every time it is used, doesn’t it?
Amen. The politicians steal powers that aren't rightfully theirs and then sell what they have stolen to the highest bidders along with the implication that if the purchasers don't play the game they could be the next victims of the robbers in DC, state capitals and every city hall. You can blame those who buy stolen goods, but the far bigger blame belongs to the original robbers.
“”We should give every black adult, who can trace their lineage to slavery””
That would be a hoot. Like the blacks who claimed they were shut out of government loans for farming when they once had a potted plant that died? Decent, honest blacks came forward to call it what it was - corrupt and disgusting!
Many of the modern-day practices of our free-market capitalist system are at least partly responsible for this.
Stopped reading at the this sentence...
Such a blatant falsehood...
Standard of living for blacks have worsened simply because Uncle Sammie will only provide living at a minimal...
Just enough to get you to vote for them again..and again...again
America is destroying itself because we’ve turned our back on God.
As for the reparations nonsense, the government give away programs have done more to enslave minorities in poverty than anything prior.
If having the current opportunities in America isn’t enough, leave and make your home in someplace you believe is better.
Ha.....we so lucky....he could be thinking of the 1800"s....
the islamics want to wind the clock back to the seventh century.
Cue Barry McGuire!
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CC
As to the issue of slavery, Jsnuary 30, 2015 will be the sesquicentennial of the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery and made it unconstitutional.
Got that? Slavery was outlawed 150 years ago. One hundred. And fifty. Years Ago.
Author says the decades of welfare “reparations” haven’t worked. He’s right. And handing over lump sums of reparations cash won’t work either. Because money alone is not the problem. Attitudes, cultural norms, loss off manufacturing and other jobs are the problem. Hand over a chink of cash and it will be gone in no time, with hands held out for MORE.
Blacks are slaves to the federal teat.
Liberals have kept them down and there are too many many reasons not to hire one.
Reparations? Ok, how about any Afro-American demanding reparations apply to the government and in return get 10K, a one way ticket to Africa, and loss of American citizenship.
Title is ok, the rest is horse manure.
Totally agree
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