Posted on 07/21/2019 10:56:12 AM PDT by John Semmens
Backer of reparations for descendants of former slaves Democratic presidential contender Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif) says “writing a check is not gonna be enough. The financial disadvantages of slaves and their descendants represent only a small portion of what is owed to them by whites. Payments can’t assuage the hurt of whippings and lynchings.”
Harris averred that “it will be relatively easy to apportion the monetary damages among the descendants of the slave-holding whites. It will be harder to apportion the physical pain, fear, and humiliation. We’ll probably have to use some sort of lottery system to select which white people will have to bear these burdens. Many will have to be whipped. Fewer will have to be lynched. Some will have to be raped. But all should have to endure the fear that it could be them. Those selected by the lottery for lynching or rape should be rousted in the middle of the night by black men wearing hoods. I think this rough justice will be the best approximation of true justice that we could hope to achieve.”
Rival contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (Tex) volunteered to “be the first one whipped should Sen. Harris’ proposed plan be implemented. I was recently given documents showing that both my wife and I are descended from people who owned slaves. Let the atonement process begin with me.”
In related news, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass) claims that “we can’t have real diversity unless each person conforms to the proper racial viewpoint. If you have a black face, you need to speak with a black voice. If you have a brown face, you need to speak with a brown voice. Deviation from these expected norms confuses the issue and prevents us from achieving an authentically diverse community.”
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The White population has suffered far more rapes and murders at the hands of Blacks than the number of such crimes Blacks suffered when there was slavery in the USA.We owe them nothing but airline tickets back to Africa should they find the USA so terrible.
Quite possibly, at one time or another, every group enslaved another group.
If you go back far enough, we are all related.
So . . .
Who pays what to who, for what enslavement, for what period of time?
Lets call it a wash and move on.
John, I think you’ve missed a good line of argument on the reparations deal, although you’ll get many more whacks at it if you want.
There is no way to even think about reparations without some sort of genealogy tracing whose comprehensive detail would put the old Nazi Aryan-ness tracking schemes to shame. The government would have to mandate “23andme” testing for everyone. Think of what that would mean. A saliva spit is your national ID card. Your share or burden of the racial spoils system is right there. Any family members who have done something that turns out to be questionable will be findable through the database. Organ “donations” could be facilitated (although it is said that the Chinese are currently the pioneers here). I’m sure you can expand on the genetic database possibilities.
On the upside, at least we’d know (if the Dems would allow us to look) which family asylum claimants were actually related; also, it would be much harder for illegal aliens to carry multiple identities, because there’s only one genetic code for each individual (twins excepted).
So, instead of “Your papers please”, we’d have a “Spit here” society.
“40 acres and a mule” in Nevada.
...so true. Put whites in Detroit and Baltimore....let them have to just live in that for 50 years. See what they do differently. South Africa...
Is this for real?
To be honest, I’ve never bothered clicking on an article from this site due to the “Semi-satire” phrase.
Is it a satire site or not?
It is satire, but walks the razor edge of reality.
Name me a city or state or country run by blacks that has succeeded. They all FAIL big time. Anytime the whites and republicans take over it succeeds.
OK, if they give us back the 500,000 lives lost in the Civil War, I’ll call it even.
Harris did say money alone will not be enough to even the score.
I filled in some speculation about what more might be required from her point of view. That part is the satire.
You say this is satire, but it isn’t. Democrats really think this way, but haven’t had the guts to say it out loud.
That’s why I’m putting their thoughts out there.
Just because it is labeled “satire” doesn’t mean it isn’t the truth. Historically, satire has been used to expose unacknowledged truths.
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