Reparations for slavery has been talked about among the lunatic fringe for years. Now it’s getting more serious discussion.
How the heck you administer such a program of paying reparations is beyond my pay grade, even if you accept the premise that somehow we owe reparations in the first place.
The irony of seeing multi-millionaire famous actor Danny Glover urging us to pay reparations, is surely lost on the radical types who push this sort of thing.
Should Danny Glover get reparations, when he has achieved the American dream in so many ways? Just one of many questions to ask, regarding who should get reparations.
And what of poor black people? We have instituted laws and policies such as affirmative action, to assist those who had been historically discriminated against. Is that not sufficient to help make up for the sins of the past?
What of poor whites, such as we see in Appalachia, who have been exploited in various ways? How do we compensate for their problems? Should we, or is that too far a reach, to look at reparations for poor whites, Mexican Americans, homosexuals, and other grievance groups?
Welfare and the tentacle programs of the Great Society WERE reparations. Now we just pay blacks to keep from rioting.
It only makes sense with leftists and racists that the further you get from Slavery the MORE they blame everything on it and want someone to pay.
They are kooks, criminals and racists.
One night last year Michael Savage listed about twenty excellent exceptions to the “slavery” problem for who gets what. Also, who pays what and which courts should handle all the squabbles over that. I wish he would repeat the lists.
Some were: black skinned person from England or Ireland. Never part of slavery, came here last year. Slave owners descendants in Jamaica and Antigua (Kamala is one) now here and are black skinned. White people who arrived from various non-slavery countries (Italy like Frank Sinatra’s parents and singer Neil Young, Canadian citizen with permanent residency in US)====plus tens of millions more people (Croatians, Chinese , Indians of India,Vietnamese, Eskimos (Inuit) who live here now.
So Neil Young could pay reparations to Kamala whose blood relatives captured and owned black slaves. Rotten.