I Have Some Questions About The Democrats’ Reparations Plan

Townhall.com ^ | February 28. 2019 | Kurt Schlichter

[RedMonqey]

What gets me about this “reparations” debate is, the slave owners lost all their “equity” when the slaves walked off the plantation into freedom. The local Black Republicans raided the taxes until the owners couldn’t pay the taxes and broke up the remaining plantations that didn’t get looted or burned by the invading Union army and it’s “bummers” And why tax the victorious “Freedom Fighters”

It’s a debt that’s been paid for already.

[Rummyfan]

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.

Crime, high taxes, and poor schools drive the tax base away. What's left is not productive and the downward spiral continues as taxes are increased and policing declines.

[Rummyfan]

Look at the last fifty years; foreigners are amazed at what blacks have already squandered with affirmative action policies.

Per my new immigrant Bulgarian Uber driver the other day, all these people want to do is make babies (my correction) and do drugs.

[Rummyfan]

Reparations: the split will be 90% to white lawyers 10% to slave descendants.

Just like the tobacco settlements. Although I think it will be more accurately 95% - 5%.

[Rummyfan]

The great fallacy is that slavery didn’t begin in America; absence of slavery is unusual worldwide and throughout history. Absence of slavery is restricted basically to places and times influenced by such as William Wilberforce - Christians, especially Protestants, and especially English-speaking Protestants after about 1700

And the fact that is never addressed is that it was largely though the efforts of White Christian men that slavery was ended in The West.

[redpoll]

I’m absolutely in favor of reparations to the descendants of slaves.

The peoples of West Africa, who willingly and enthusiastically sold black people to the Europeans, should be held accountable for the vast profits they earned in human trafficking. Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, and other countries along Africa’s Atlantic coast need to pay back for the suffering they caused by the creation of entire empires dedicated to the selling of human beings. Shame on them. I’d estimate that 25 percent of the gross domestic product of those countries for the next century should just about make up for their criminal human trafficking which created the Atlantic slave trade.

</sarc>

[Lou L]

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,

I suspect that one lump sum might be too easy...it leaves too much on the table. A wise "reparationer" would go for smaller checks, but would pay them out on an ongoing basis. Annually, semi-annually, or monthly would be the best for continuing support from the African-American communities. Then, Democrats could use it as a voting issue: "vote for us, or those mean, old Republicans will cut/stop your payments!"

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

the fact that is never addressed is that it was largely though the efforts of White Christian men ^{with rifles} that slavery was ended in The West ^{in every venue in which it WAS ended.}

Including in the American South, where the slaveholders were themselves white Christian men.

[43north]

My ancestors were Catholic tenant farmers (i.e. slaves) on the lands of some Catholic Scottish Lords. After they transferred title to their lands to Protestant Scottish Lords my ancestors were kicked off the land and replaced with Protestant tenant farmers. Eventually they emigrated to Canada during the 1840’s Potato Famine. They moved westward across Canada and came across the border at Detroit in the 1890’s well after emancipation. So I’m confused - do I receive reparations and from who or do I have to pay reparations and why?

[KC Burke]

I’m conflicted. Should I have immunity from my GG Grandfather that rode with John Brown and fought for the Union or should his GGG Uncle that was one of the largest slave owners in Jamaica mean I only owe it in the West Indies?

Does Kamala Harris owe due to being from a family of slave owners in PR?

Can we just short it out by me buying Willie Brown some penicillin and Kamala giving me $80k?

[I want the USA back]

Guilt resides in the individual, and is not passed on through the genes. Financial debts are not inherited by children. So there is no basis for making today’s Whites pay for something done years ago by people who are dead.

Guilt does not jump to people who are not descendants of slaveowners, simply because of a similar skin shade.

I have already paid, big time. A family member just paid, when a car was broken into by a descendant of slaves. I am still paying, in higher taxes, that go to unproductive descendants of slaves.

To those who propose reparations: kindly fertilize yourself.

[Does so]

Not sure what you're asking, but the idea is to actually participate in the idea of making America great again, and try to erase the suffix of

"*-Barons".

[Jim Noble]

I am for reparations.

And I don’t care how much it is. I would even give Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

As long as the final result is “paid in full”.

[kearnyirish2]

Yes, and even worse, the white suckers that were expected to foot those huge pension bills are escaping before the piper must be paid. For everyone on FR that defends those pensions as “agreements made with workers” - OK, now how do you get the money? If the agreements were between the government and those workers (I’ve never been asked to vote on one), then let “the government” (read: the current residents) pay for them.

[kearnyirish2]

Many people from developing or undeveloped countries seem shocked at the educational opportunities spurned by our permanent underclass; where they come from, that opportunity to better oneself is much harder to come by (and those offered it make much more of it).