Posted on 10/06/2014 11:07:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I started this narrative bibliography for "The Case for Reparations" back in June, but, regrettably, I didn't finish the final section before I left for the summer. Some time has passed but I think it is very important that, as much as possible, I complete this public acknowledgement of all the previous work that contributed to my own.
As I've written, the process began with the understanding that racism was a "done thing" and not an irrepressible clash between people of different hues. Another way of putting this is to say white supremacy is not an invention of white people; white people are an invention of white supremacy. The second step was understanding that the most flagrant demonstration of white supremacy, enslavement, is not ancillary to American history but at its very roots. The enslavement of Africans is foundational to the United States, and it is tough to imagine this country without it. The third step was understanding that the legacy of that enslavement gave us a suite of policies that injured—and continues to injure—people who are alive and well and living in North Lawndale.
Knowing those three things, the way forward became clear to me.
I first seriously grappled with the concept reparations in my early 20s, in the form Randall Robinson's moving argument in The Debt. A taut and beautifully rendered book, The Debt mostly focuses on enslavement. But I remember sitting with Robinson some years ago—he was the subject of my first big profile for a national magazine—and hearing him almost off-handedly note that housing discrimination alone is estimated to have cost black people billions. And I recall dimly thinking, "Some of those people are alive."(continued)
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Thought this thread was about alcoholics...
Hopium addicts, actually.
Ta-Nahesis [sigh], there is slavery in this nation. His name is the US taxpayer. Welfare bums collecting MY money are the slave masters with the democrat party as the overseer.
What are they proposing to do with Islam who still openly demonstrate slavery (today) in over 13 nations in Africa?
Have they educated their selves about the trans saharan slave trade?
All they see is a “fat” America, thinking they “built it”.
Sure they contributed to the cotton and tobacco states - 4(?) out of 50?
What about the Chinese? The Irish? Germans? French? Italians?
...there were blacks in the American south who owned slaves.
There are blacks in Africa who STILL own slaves.
The DNC should pay reparations.
We gave at Gettysburg.
Seeing as my folks arrived in this country legally in the olden days of 1953 with less than seven dollars in their pockets and where required to sign an oath nor to seek or accept any for of government aid for five years and they did not from th the time they became citizens to their their death. So if some slimetoad wants to try and take any reparations from mine or my home I will gladly supply them with such a 100+ grains at a time in assorted calibers, depending on their zealousness.
Wait.
reparations or repatriation?
I thought it was about the Kennedy’s.
Can this man write properly?
I first seriously grappled with the concept of reparations in my early 20s, in the form of Randall Robinson's moving argument in The Debt.
Huh? How so?
I might take that deal myself!
And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”
Former Congressman Abraham Lincoln, Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858
So let’s start with three assumptions that are bovine scat and see what we end up with? How about we start with Black Muslims sold captives in Africa into slavery? Something that had been going on for hundreds of years. White folks got in on the buying end for the last hundred years or so and when the Founding Fathers won their war for independence, recognizing slavery as an evil that would have to be stopped put an end to importation in the founding laws. Then, within 100 years those that insisted it be ended, once and for all, picked up muskets and made it happen at the cost of perhaps a MILLION LIVES which were almost all white. One of whom was an 18 year old family member of mine who has spent the last 150 years in a grave at a place called Gettysburg. Now let’s have another look at current facts. From my perspective anyone jabbering about reparations in America can kiss my ass. You are a worthless POS. Go talk to wealthy Muslims about what THEY owe you but as far as I am concerned my family owes you NOTHING. In can show you the census. No one in my family EVER for 250 years owned a slave. In fact the first ones were indentured servants themselves. As Ken Hamblin used to say, get up every morning in America Nd THANK GOD you ancestors were slaves. Until you libtards put this Kenyan Klown in office you could make it here no matter what color, creed, or stripe by getting off your ass and working for it. Over the decades I have met a number of foreigners who were educated people in my line of work and after spending any time at all here they have the same observation. Americans WORK and like no one else in the world. Germans, Norwegians, Spanish, Indian, you name it. If you wanted it and we’re willing to work you could have it. Of course, all you smarty pants intellectuals have sure fixed that. You and your Klown Prince still haven’t figured out why their ain’t no more golden eggs. IT IS CUZ YOU FUC*ERS KILLEDTHE DAMN GOOSE!
The following repatriation plan would be acceptable to me: $5,000,000 tax free & lifetime exemption from all income tax for every living person who was held in slavery in the United States at any time prior to the ratification of the thirteenth amendment to the US Constitution.
We already paid reparations in two installments; the Civil War and the War on Poverty. If you want more, earn it.
Touche’
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