Posted on 02/27/2019 10:52:32 PM PST by Kaslin
So, Senator Willy Brown Side Piece and Senator Panders With Wolves have decided to so something even Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit never dared – they’ve come out in favor of reparations. “Reparations” is, of course, the notion that a bunch of people who are not guilty of slavery owe money to people who were not slaves for some reason that never quite gets explained but that you’re racist for wondering about.
This horrific idea is, not shockingly, really unpopular with the majority of people who did not do anything wrong but are expected to cut a check. It is, however, really popular with the leftist activists driving the out-of-control clown car that is today’s Democrat Party.
The Dem candidates are not crazy, and their plan is no doubt to gaslight the SJW suckers with this nonsense during the primaries to win the nomination. Once that mission is accomplished, they will pull the old “Just kidding!” when it comes time to campaign in the battered, opioid-shattered Midwestern states like Ohio and Michigan where the besieged white working class voters would be surprised to learn how privileged they are, as well as how in debt to people they never did anything wrong to.
Or maybe not. I mean, liberals are both incredibly dumb and morally bankrupt, and perhaps they would actually push for an unAmerican racial spoils system where you receive, or pay, cash because of something your great x 5 grandpa was or was not. But let’s get beyond how this whole idea is an atrocity that makes a mockery of everything Americans believe in. Let’s figure out how it is actually supposed to work.
I have questions. Several in fact. So, let’s take me, my wife, and my kids for example and see how this works out in practice.
Now, on the surface, I’m pretty much near the bottom in their heirarchy of racial grievances. The Schlichters came here from Germany before the Revolution and settled in rural Pennsylvania. Clearly, the world was my oyster. Sure, back in 1981, as I was swabbing out toilets in the Foster City, California, Carl’s, Jr., I did not have a solid understanding of the windfall of privilege bequeathed to me. Nor was it readily apparent as a Private First Class at basic training, except when Drill Sergeant Whittlesey would say “No push-ups for the college boy. Two hundred fifty years ago, his ancestors were in Bavaria, so he’s special.” My privilege is clearly the only reason I became a successful lawyer, writer, colonel, and Twitter legend. The decades of hard work were secondary, and anyone who thinks different is a racist.
You would think I’d need to pay full reparations freight, but hold on. My mom’s mom cruised over here from Scotland in about 1910. Do I get a break for that since it was a half-century after slavery ended? And it ended, in some tiny part, because of my great-great grandfather, or maybe great-great-great grandfather, who served with the Union Army in the Civil War. We’re pretty sure some other relatives did too. Oh, and the Confederates burned down the Schlichter hometown, Chambersburg. That’s got to be worth something. Basically, I think I’m entitled to a discount.
Now, my wife immigrated here from Cuba after the Democrats’ pal Fidel Castro started tossing her family in jail for liking freedom. And it gets more complicated – she did one of those 23 and Me DNA things, and she’s got a few percentage points of African and, bizarrely, Native American (more than Big Chief Warren, not that that’s hard). So, as a Latina immigrant of femaleness with some African and Native American heritage, I’m thinking not only does she not owe reparations, but she’s probably due a refund. Just make the check out to cash and I’ll make sure she gets it.
That brings us to our kids. So, they are half-Latin with some extras, and half-Anglo, but with some recent immigrant credit and bonus points for the Civil War. How much do they owe? Or do they get something back?
And what about other folks? How about those Nigerian guys hired by Jussie Smollett? Do they get money? Do they owe money, since clearly they are entrepreneurial immigrant innovators doing jobs Americans just won’t do, like helping fake hate crimes for oppressed dudes making $65K a week. And what’s Jussie Smollett owed by, say, an Illinois truck driver whose ancestors came over from Cork during the potato famine?
I’d like to know how all this works.
But, of course, it doesn’t work, because it’s stupid. And it’s not merely stupid; it is the anti-thesis of justice. The very idea these factors entitle or obligate you to anything is staggeringly immoral and utterly disgusting. Which explains its eager embrace by the Democrats.
But let’s put petty concerns about not being thoroughly evil aside and focus on practical questions, like what exactly does this pigmentation fine/windfall buy us? I mean, if we do this reparations thing, are we done? Are we finished with racial strife? What exactly are we expecting after the checks clear?
Everyone knows that when, say, AAA insurance pays off your auto claim, they make you sign a release that says, essentially, “Hey, for this $1,500, you release all your claims and can never sue for more.” We lawyers use releases all the time in settlements – we call it “buying your peace,” and once you pay off a settlement, the beef is finished, the dispute is resolved, and everyone is even. Is that how this works?
Is the whole leftists racial okey-doke over with forever once the reparations get paid?
SJW with Nosering: “Hey you, in the MAGA hat, you’re exercising your white privilege!”
Mysterious Stranger: “Stop right there, gender indeterminate individual!”
SJW with Nosering: “It’s the Reverend Al Sharpton!”
Reverend Sharpton: “That’s right, and I’m here to tell you that this whole race hustle thing is over, done, finito! Now you need to find something else to complain about!”
SJW with Nosering: “Thanks for the tip, Reverend Al! Hey you, in the MAGA hat, you’re a climate denier!”
Unlikely. These professional racial conmen are never giving up their grift. Reparations I will inevitably be followed by Reparations II: The Revenge.
What will resolve the racial divisions in this country is not a cash transfer but – and you liberals are going to hate this manifestly true statement of fact – a return to the Judeo-Christian values and principles of our Constitution that recognize the worth and dignity of each individual based upon his or her character, as well as a total repudiation of the racial hucksterism that is destroying our culture.
Until we reject the ethnic scammers and professional bigots who seek to make immutable characteristics like race, ethnicity, religion, and gender what defines an individual, our culture and politics will be a poisonous cesspool. It’s those creeps who owe all of us reparations – but I don’t want their money. I just want them to stop destroying my country.
[Senator Willy Brown Side Piece and Senator Panders With Wolves]
LOL
I am definitely stealing that first one for sure.
Economic slavery for white people. Either slavery is wrong or it’s not; and once again Democrats are OK with it. Slavery in Africa is at an historic all time high. It thrives on world trade. Do these hypocrites want to stop it? Not if there isn’t anything in it for themselves.
I’ll be waiting for Reparations III: A New Hope.
Hope it includes all the outtakes with Jesse and Al.
Kurt, you can use that. Let me know when you do. :)
So the 360,222 union soldiers that
gave their lives during the civil
war isn’t enough of a payment?
They freed 3.9 million, according to the 1860 Census, by July 1865. That’s about
11 slaves per soldier. The debt has been
paid.
I am descended from an Irish slave by the name of Jacob Shirey. He was bought out of a jail in Bristol England in 1775 and sold on the auction block in Baltimore Maryland in 1775. I have documentation and can prove this. I also have MANY documented dead or wounded Family members from South Carolina and Pennsylvania who died in battle trying to keep this country together and free the slaves. How much reparations do I get??
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/white-slavery
I dunno. I got some Cherokee in me and my ancestors are from Europe, I believe.
So I think I’m owed about $50 million dollars. After taxes.
No, make that $50 billion dollars. There, that will do it.
Let’s start from the 40 acres and a mule. The average cost of an acre of land is roughly $3,000 and a mule between $1,00 and 3,000 the current value. So that is roughly $122,000 in present value for each person who can verify they are a descendant of a slave before the Civil War. Now, we start deducting for costs related to the Civil War, the costs paid in various sundries since that time and it comes out that it is a negative balance when all things are added up. Examples would include race only clubs and schools, scholarships etc. If reparations are paid, then all legislation except granting of equal rights (which is what they should have) shall become null and void. Racism unless proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law shall not be invoked ever. It should become illegal to make a false accusation of racism including other terms like a white supremacist, white privilege, etc. This should be dealt with by a very strict punishment. Since the cost is actually beyond the actual monetary value afforded 40 acres and a mule, then they should be given nothing and put on equal footing with everyone else. /s
Maybe you line up and get something...
If reparations were written into a bill, Republicans should insist on its entire value be converted into Mutual Fund stock—held for a minimum of 15 years.
Similar story along my family line, with a father and son who were indentured to the farm trade, and brought to Virginia in the 1680s era...to be sold. They both attained freedom in three years and became tobacco farmers themselves.
If you draw up the list....indentured slaves, the Chinese brought into California, Indians and so on....about a quarter of the nation will get some reparation situation.
Then you come to the amount. I think the Democrats idea is revolving around some check for $20,000 for each adult. Some of the people on the reparation line, are probably thinking more along the line of $100,000. I don’t see this politically coming to a happy ending.
The only reparation deal that I could laid on the table is some tax credit ‘bucket’ where you say 88-million Americans can be given $10,000 in tax credits which you could apply to your income level (lessening it) and thereby getting less tax on your income tax. This means you need to work, and you need to pay taxes...to get anything out of the deal. So for half of the millions in the reparations line, because they don’t pay anything much in taxes....they’d never exercise or use much of that bucket. You’d have to move ahead in life, to make use of it.
Is SJW?
With this the rats are trying to buy their way back to the black vote which I think they never lost. More money for lotto, liquor and drugs. If they legitimately used this money to dig themselves out of a hole they would not be eligible for it anymore, hence welcome to my lifestyle
With this the rats are trying to buy their way back to the black vote which I think they never lost. More money for lotto, liquor and drugs. If they legitimately used this money to dig themselves out of a hole they would not be eligible for it anymore, hence welcome to my lifestyle
I watched a YouTube video where a black leader in South Africa was ranting the whites must not be allowed to leave; they’d “poison the land”. I guess that is how they explain Zimbabwe’s agricultural collapse; it wasn’t idle, ignorant party hacks getting prime farmland and neglecting it; the whites must have “poisoned the land”.
This reparations BS is to get what they can as the white population contracts; they are escaping into the next world while passing the wealth (such as it is) on to friends and family. More and more “black” areas are completely isolated than that of whites, with widening buffer zones of Asians and Hispanics filling the yawning gap between them - and as a result, it is difficult to tether the costs of black urban areas to a white tax base. Rather than “poisoning the land”, whites have abandoned it altogether - increasingly leaving behind the municipal, county, even state borders that would share their fruits of working with welfare populations - and blacks are responding with alarm.
The reparations mentality is similar to the socialism one, both in method and result. The idea is that whites are still enjoying wealth obtained from black slavery. But what will blacks do with the wealth they “take back”? Build more wealth or squander it on useless luxuries? Before long that money will disappear and they’ll be demanding more from an ever-shrinking feed trough. Eventually everyone will be dirt poor.
Schlichter Has become one of my top-tier favorite columnists, and this is a great example why.
Look at the last fifty years; foreigners are amazed at what blacks have already squandered with affirmative action policies.
The reparations mentality is more similar to national socialism; it is driving whites to extinction. Look at any elementary school population in most of the country today; few “Americans”...
Absolutely brilliantly written and executed!
However, I think you owe us royalties for the use of our civilization, which can be regarded as a sort of software. There should be a licensing fee. After all, every time you use a computer, or a door knob, you are using something invented by us. Every time you sharpen a pencil, or use one, or read or write, you infringe our copyright, so to speak. We have spent millennia coming up with things–literacy, soap, counting–and it is only fair that we receive recompense.
The accounting burden would be excessive if we tried to distribute royalties in too fine a granularity, such as three cents per use of a boom box or a Glock, so we should probably use a bundled approach–so much per year for use of the wheel, refrigerator, and television. The amount could be deducted first from reparations payments and then automatically from EFT cards. (...)
https://fredoneverything.org/are-white-men-gods-ii-getting-the-facts-straight/
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